SinisterStudios

True HD is years away for our business, the expense for cameras (good hd cameras not the crap thats out today and yes im talking about the sony so called HD cameras out there) crews experienced in shooting hd, proper lighting for HD, and all the other production nightmares that go with it are just not worth it yet. Shooting true hd requires roughly 1gb per minute of storage, so a 20 minute scene will run roughly 20gb of storage in a Full HD Stream. Now compress that to 1/4 size for web streaming and your still talking 5gb for a 20 minute scene. How many scenes does an avearge paysite have? and can they afford to convert to HD and the expense of storage solutions they need to handle storing and streaming this large of a file?

Then we havent even gotten into the editing systems for HD video, cause there is nothing out there for less than $75k that can handle true hd editing. All the products out there from Vegas, Premiere, and FCP handle stepped down HD and not true HD Streams. Only Avid has a solution for this and it runs way more than any of us will pay.

Then the bandwith issues comes into play, bandwith prices have basically hit the lowest point they will go ( maybe they might go down alittle more but cant see too much more) There has been alot of consolidation in the Bandwith business and i would think this would cause prices to stay level or even go up slightly.

Technology prices have to come down quite a bit to make it cost effective for paysite owners to justify the addtional expense in servers, storage and bandwith needed to stream HD on the web

There is alot of factors to consider when trying to put HD porn on the web, and personally with all im told by my mainstream friends and what i have played with myself, we are years from getting True HD on the web.

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