Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash 249
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting new angle to the ongoing Flash-HTML5 debate. Digital Playground, one of the major adult film studios, said it would drop Flash today if all browsers were HTML5-ready (*cough*, IE8, *cough*). The company's founder said, 'Flash brings everything to a crawl and has an impact on battery life. With HTML5, there is no reason to show our content in Flash.' Digital Playground also indicated that it does not expect 3-D to gain mass acceptance any time soon."
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never gonna work (Score:5, Funny)
The Porn Industry is never wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait (Score:0, Funny)
Are they dropping their pants, or flashing their boobies?
Or both?
*grin*
One has to wonder (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No 3d? (Score:2, Funny)
For tits, yeah, that'd be great. But there are often also dicks.
Re:never gonna work (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No 3d? (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the boobs we're worried about...
Re:No 3d? (Score:4, Funny)
Why would 3D gain faster acceptance? Who wouldn't want tits to basically jump out of your screen and nearly hit you in the face?
I'm already going blind. I don't need a migraine to go with it.
I thought I heard Jobs say... (Score:5, Funny)
That the iPad would revolutionize online porn as we know it.
Also, it wipes clean with a damp cloth.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
"We're boned." - Adobe's CEO
Re:No 3d? (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who has actually seen a 3-d porn movie (in the theater, no less), let me assure that 3-d "money shots" are REALLY NOT something you want to experience.
Fortunately (Score:5, Funny)
Re:never gonna work (Score:4, Funny)
the porn industry caters to workplace browsers?
Believe it or not, there are workplaces (like mine) where the porn industry is a large part of our business...
Get back to work regulating oil drilling, fucker.
Meh (Score:1, Funny)
Who cares about battery life? Porn is only watched in increments of 5-10 minutes anyway.
Re:never gonna work (Score:1, Funny)
You work at the Securities and Exchange Commission?
Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec? (Score:1, Funny)
agreed... get firefox to use h264 via plugin, problem solved. Firefox ppl love plugins.
Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec? (Score:4, Funny)
You will be able to install a third party theora codec for ie. You will presumably be able to get a firefox plugin for h.264. Chrome supports both. Opera users can install a different browser.
Re:Apple (Score:5, Funny)
The iPad is a HORRIBLE porn viewing device. There's no easy way to set it down to view hands-free and if you're holding it... well... let's just say it's slippery enough as it is without any fluids involved.
Re:Fortunately (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, seriously, do N900 users have some inferiority/persecution complex that compels them to crowbar the fact that they use an N900 into every topic they can, regardless of whether or not it actually even vaguely fits the discussion at hand?
Nope, actually both N900 users are very quiet and restrained people. The N900 fanboys who can't afford it but pretend they've own one are quite obnoxious though.
Re:never gonna work (Score:3, Funny)
The porn industry hasn't led anyone (VHS didn't win because of the porn industry). If anything, they've always been behind the curve. Porn is about quick, ultra-cheap production--sometimes with nothing more than handheld camcorders. The industry held off on going HD for years because it was more expensive and required more work to make the performers not look horrifying.
Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec? (Score:3, Funny)
Both IE and Firefox are pulling asshole arrogant moves by not making their HTML5 video playback call a library where codecs can be added. In both cases it is an attempt to promote their codec of choice by making alternatives impossible.
Although we are used to Microsoft doing this crap, it is annoying to see the supposedly "open" Firefox do it too.
Re:never gonna work (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.cracked.com/article_17300_6-ways-that-porn-runs-world.html [cracked.com]
There's your citation.
Re:Wow... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait... am I the only one that actually watches these movies all the way to the end?
Re:The Porn Industry is never wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No 3d? (Score:4, Funny)
You crazy? Some people already got pregnant because of 3D porn [techeye.net]! Won't you think of the children?! So much for abstinence...
Re:And if my aunt had a dick she'd by my uncle... (Score:2, Funny)
Flash could disappear in a couple of months with a couple of browser rollouts.
And the simple task of converting all the current Flash developers to HTML5.
I know! It all sounds so simple, doesn't it? That's the beauty of the whole idea: All we need to do is get the decade or so worth of Flash game websites out there (Armor Games, NewGrounds, Kongregate, etc) and Flash-based cartoons to just suddenly convert their entire libraries to another language, architecture, set of art tools, set of resources, and set of formats. And for the lazy ones, we can easily run them through a JS Flash emulator at roughly 5% of the speed and zero hardware acceleration, because seriously, who needs it to run that fast? Should be all done in a couple hours, globally, once I say so, starting......... now! Go!
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Insert where?
Re:never gonna work (Score:3, Funny)