Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD 369
MBCook writes "ZDNet has an interesting article about how the porn industry might end up deciding the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray debate. One side likes the higher capacity of Blu-ray, while others like the lower costs of producing HD-DVDs. Manufacturing 11,000 titles a year, the industry would have a sizeable say in the debate."
Betamax (Score:5, Informative)
Re:11000? (Score:2, Informative)
No, I'm bi. And for what it's worth, there's tons of gay porn out there, too - go check, and you'll see for yourself. 11000 titles a year does not equal 11000 heterosexual/lesbian titles a year (BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:3, Informative)
Betamax superior ? Common misconception! (Score:5, Informative)
The article has several good points, although it's sometimes hard to tell what can be attributed to hindsight and what can't. Anyhow I think it's safe to say that "Betamax > VHS" is a huge oversimplification.
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:3, Informative)
Shows.
Demo of -other- technology than the AV running the display, also scientific presentations. Also educational.
Security, monitoring
News/Live.
If you want to get an idea of just how big porn is (Score:3, Informative)
Oh baby, yes,..make more movies! Yes, yes, oh yes!!!!!....<CIGARETTE>puff</CIGARETTE>
Re:More isn't always better (Score:2, Informative)
Re:11000? (Score:3, Informative)
What's even funnier is that movies with lesbian scenes (or even lesbian-only) are categorized as "straight" while it only takes two guys making a little kiss during a MMF-threesome to get it categorized as "bi".. *sigh*
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:2, Informative)
(I'd possibly include the easily available hard drives with massive storage as well)
Yay!
Q: Why a new standard anyway? A: Piracy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:3, Informative)
#!/bin/bash
count=10
x=1
while [ $count -ne "86" ]; do
mkdir "thumbs$count"
cd "thumbs$count"
while [ $x -lt "16" ]; do
if [ $x -lt "10" ]; then
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/0$x.jpg"
else
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/$x.jpg"
fi
let "x += 1"
sleep 3
done
cd
x=1
let "count += 1"
done
Re:Finally a voice of reason (Score:3, Informative)
My 65" HDTV shows me wayyyy too much detail at times, and it's a turn off. Stretch marks, surgery scars, acne, razor burns... it's not stuff you want to see in high definition. And for some reason the directors still love their closeups.
If you're watching DVD's on a 27" or smaller television, it's not the same as a 65" HDTV. Seriously.
Re:Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD--what is the actual differen (Score:3, Informative)
Re:From a porn store clerk's POV... (Score:5, Informative)
Prime example of scum:
4:00 am in the morning, customer walks in, browses movie boxes in another room. Nothing unusual, men will spend hours picking out porn. 5:30 am, I look at the camera, see the person looking behind him. Suspicious activity, no one looks around unless they are trying to be secretive.
I walk back there quietly, the man is wearing sweat pants with his hand in there, while looking at a movie box with the other hand.
I say, "Excuse me, you're going to have to leave."
His response, "What?"
I then say, "Your hand is in your PANTS. You have to leave." At the time of me saying this, his hand was still there.
He pulls it out, walks into the other room with the mags and such, goes to look at a magazine as I say, "I'm going to call the police unless you leave."
On his way out, he says to me rather angrily, "You shouldn't be looking at guys dicks anyways."
I respond, "Well, maybe you shouldn't be wacking off in the store anyways, get the f*** out."
Apparently he was rather pissed I didn't let him finish up or something.
So... tell me the last time you wacked off in a pr0n store to some boxes. Now that's scum to me.
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Finally a voice of reason (Score:4, Informative)
According to a former girlfriend, who worked for an independent video store, porn accounted for over 50% of their rentals. The other half was mostly niche/non-mainstream stuff which Blockbuster didn't have a good selection of -- anime, arthouse stuff, and foreign films.
Before Blockbuster opened, people would come in and get a "regular" movie or two, and maybe a porno. After Blockbuster opened, the customres would just get the porn, because they were getting the new releases at Blockbuster (and blockbuster doesn't rent porn).
It's hard for an independent to compete on new releases, when BB is getting 50+ copies of every movie [at a hefty discount] and the independent can afford maybe 5 copies [at full price].
Re:They have porn on DVDs now? (Score:2, Informative)
Not true at all. In order of goodness:
1) puretna.com
2) torrentbits2.org
3) elitetorrents.net
4) and pleasure-torrent.com
All have lots of up to date high quality free porn movies :)
And those are just the ones I know of. Well I am just an average internet porn freak.