Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash

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."

Apple

[hazmat2k]

READ: "We realise the iPhone market is massive and we want iPr0n portable"

Re:never gonna work

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec?

[ahankinson]

Easy. Use h264, with a fallback to using a Flash player to play the same MP4 file. Firefox will be the only browser that will fall back to Flash, while all the others will present theirs in h264.

Insightful, as well as interesting

[jamrock]

"We realise the iPhone market is massive and we want iPr0n portable"

Spot on. Start-ups are already advertising for girls for iPhone 4 FaceTime video sex chat services [yahoo.com]. From a Craigslist ad:

iPhone 4 FaceTime Video Sex Line Chat - free iPhone 4 (NYC/LI) Date: 2010-06-27, 12:06PM EDT Reply to: [e-mail]

Starting an online interactive pornography firm where woman will use the iphone 4 to video chat with potential customers on a pay as you go basis. Hours are flexible, pay will increase as the business builds. Woman will receive a free iphone 4 to use as personal time when not working. Woman will talk to potential clients and chat with them and perform various acts as desired by clients. All information will be confidential.

Re:One guy says...

[Rockoon]

I think all content producers are generally looking forward to moving to HTML5 video.

Without DRM, most content producers arent even entertaining the thought.

Re:never gonna work

[Vancorps]

The reality is that you have come to your conclusion based on something other than reality. Further reality is that porn producers online were some of the first people to introduce social media and pioneered true network security. Geeks like their porn and have found thousands of ways to distribute it and secure it with many different business models driving it's success. The very first websites online that made profit were porn sites.

The meme didn't come out of nowhere, it is based in reality. While the porn industry doesn't have control over the development of technology they do act as a good guide for what technology will actually get deployed. Hollywood was having lots of problems going HD due to blemishes showing up that couldn't be easily airbrushed like in print media. It was the porn industry that solved the problem and propelled HD into a true platform. The industry was forced at first to adopt HD-DVD but now license restrictions from Sony have been lifted and BD production is in full swing.

I think you are hard pressed to paint the porn industry as anti-technology as that is simply completely utterly not the case. It's a bit like trying to argue that water isn't wet. They didn't hold off HD because they didn't like the platform, they embraced it fully actually and had to wait until they could solve the problems like anyone else that went HD had to do. Even in my industry which is auctions we ran into a lot of problems going HD that held us back for a few years. We're in no way shape or form anti-technology, we just believe that the technology we deploy should help us do our jobs better and reach more people. When the technology matured enough to become beneficial we went and adopted it.