HD sucks. I don't know why people make it. I don't know a single surfer that gives a fuck.
To most of you shooting in HD - it looks like shit.
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Reminds me of color television when it was invented. One more reason to keep people busying TV sets. Nothing more than eyecandy.
I agree, if the content regularly sucks, then it will also suck in HD
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I'm almost 100% sure that those HD samples are actually encoded to H264... hence the awesome quality. Not to mention that most actually come from the source (not HD, but much higher raw footage).To U.S residents that dont think HD quality is possible to be delivered to the consumer. Go here.
http://www.hulu.com/hd/ Play any of the trailers. Click the fullscreen button. Im watching HD trailers with 0 buffering full screen at 1680x1050 resolution on a 22" screen. Quality where you can see hair follicles with no problem. I hook it up to a 52" plasma via svideo or dvi and I can watch it on there at nearly the same quality. We should be pushing in the same direction as mainstream.
The 'Flash Player 9.0.115.0' requirement gives away the h264 formatyou there.. hi. i'm an all around multimedia guy
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Doesnt really matter what codec is used, just so it looks good. The point is it is delivered in super high quality with no buffering instantaneously. So it seems if done properly file size vs quality is becoming less of an issue.Comment
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Cave Creek CDN will be offering HD streaming in h.264 Flash 3.0 or Silverlight at the end of April. HD is a challenge on numerous fronts and without a decent delivery system no matter how good it looks users will get frustrated with the wait.HD for the pc is like brand new video games are for the pc. Usually the user if they want the FULL effect of the game need to upgrade hardware and possibly connection. If you think our connections will always be too slow to support viewing of full tilt hd video you are kidding yourself. What was your connection like in 1998? 56k for most if they were lucky. In 10 years its blown up. for those in the U.S. I can watch videos on there full screen on my 22" widescreen monitors with no buffering at superb quality with no pixilation issues.
Now sure there will be people having to adapt and how to properly shoot hd, and how to properly prepare models in order to shoot in that quality. If you think people are going to continue to be happy with their porn at 512k 320x240 you are deluded. If they can watch the office at 3360x1050 with out a glitch or a buffer do you think they will be happy on a paysite that can barely stream 640x480 at 1100k after a 2 minute buffer wait?
Flash 3 and Silverlight both can deliver video amazingly fast with little to no buffer if on the proper network. Adult needs to continue to innovate or some mainstream company is going to step in and show us how things are done folks.
CDN looks to me like a step in the right direction. Just my 2 cents on it.
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We are underway on this and its been great kicking some ideas around with Brian the last few weeks.Cave Creek CDN will be offering HD streaming in h.264 Flash 3.0 or Silverlight at the end of April. HD is a challenge on numerous fronts and without a decent delivery system no matter how good it looks users will get frustrated with the wait.
If there are any folks interested in doing a beta trial with us feel free to hit me up on email. or ICQ.
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file size VS quality is becoming less of an issue thanks to the codec used. H264 deliver high quality video at small bitrates, hence no need to buffer and wait for long (not to mention that in MP4 files with h264 encoding, is possible to set the buffering time in the header of the file, and as long as the bandwith of the client is plenty, playback will happen almost instantaneously)
besides, unlike the cookie cutter templates most people use to encode their videos, the samples on that page are encoded per scene, and customized depending on the content for each clip. Trying to compare or achieve the quality on those samples with HD porn is completely unrealistic.Last edited by subc; 04-18-2008, 11:28 AM.you there.. hi. i'm an all around multimedia guy
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Thank you, know what looks good in hd the travel channel. When you show open fields or buildings, for people I dont like it.
Also most of the mainstream stuff they are showing online was shot with betacam or 35mm not hd.Comment
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I love when the tour says "true HD video!" and you get in there and they've got some 640x480 WMV files with a bitrate of 1200k or something that look like they were dubbed from a betamax tape.gone. long gone.
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im sick of hearing this HD bullshit.
half the people talking about HD have no idea what they are talking about.
people who claim to have HD video looks the same as a 720x480 fucking download or stream at 1k.
and how many surfers have a HD Monitor and and HD card in their computer with all the cables that it requires. ANSWER: maybe a tiny fraction.Last edited by seeric; 04-18-2008, 11:32 AM.Comment
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regardless
http://www.hulu.com/hd/15993 these look far better than any other video ive seen.
maybe im not as up on the hd technologies, but curious why one would need an hd monitor and videocard. as long as u can support the proper resolutions that seems more like some marketing ploy to get people to buy new monitors and video cards. seems like if ur monitor can support displaying 1080lines vertically its already hd...Last edited by severe; 04-18-2008, 12:09 PM.Comment
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Considering many movies are shot with HDV cameras I would say its FAR from completely unrealistic.file size VS quality is becoming less of an issue thanks to the codec used. H264 deliver high quality video at small bitrates, hence no need to buffer and wait for long (not to mention that in MP4 files with h264 encoding, is possible to set the buffering time in the header of the file, and as long as the bandwith of the client is plenty, playback will happen almost instantaneously)
besides, unlike the cookie cutter templates most people use to encode their videos, the samples on that page are encoded per scene, and customized depending on the content for each clip. Trying to compare or achieve the quality on those samples with HD porn is completely unrealistic.
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I agree!! After checking out different sites to see how they were using HD I came to the conclusion that their isn't really any standard! For the most part I think it is supposed to mean large resolutions and higher quality.Comment
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this is all true; however, when recording HDV, you are recording to a mini dv tape, and presumabley capturing it with a Firewire cable.HDV is a recording format.
It's not another version of HD or sub-HD or anything like that.
Think of it as a way of getting HD.
There are many ways, like HDV, DVC Pro HD, AVCHD, and so on.
If you shoot using a HDV camera you will still get FULL HD.
Technically anything larger than standard TV format (simplified, in the US that's 720x 480) can be considered HD.
Consumers are usually confronted with two major resolutions:
1920x1080 (aka 1080i if footage is interlaced; 1080p if progressive)
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1280 x 720 (almost always 720p - progressive)
However, there are many resolutions that can qualify as HD.
For example, if you look at a large number of TVs that are advertized as "High Definition" you'll notice that many are actually not displaying 1920x1080 but other resolutions.
That's still HD mind you.
One way of providing adult content via HD and still honor the fact that most consumers want immediate satisfaction is to provide the footage in different formats.
For example, I always published large resolution movies for download, and then another smaller version in Flash (with Flash Media Server, so everything played instantly without waiting).
Hope this helps a little
Through this process there are several levels of compression that happen. So unless you capture with some sort of breakout box which are expensive, it is not true HD, it is HDV.Comment
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yep HD is a real tangle to sort out and a real bitch to move the files around and render....I think the clients really want two things from HD content, well three things: saying they have HD, 16x9 aspect rations and clean, crisp screen caps. -bmbHDV is a recording format.
It's not another version of HD or sub-HD or anything like that.
Think of it as a way of getting HD.
There are many ways, like HDV, DVC Pro HD, AVCHD, and so on.
If you shoot using a HDV camera you will still get FULL HD.
Technically anything larger than standard TV format (simplified, in the US that's 720x 480) can be considered HD. (more info)
Consumers are usually confronted with two major resolutions:
1920x1080 (aka 1080i if footage is interlaced; 1080p if progressive)
and
1280 x 720 (almost always 720p - progressive)
However, there are many resolutions that can qualify as HD.
For example, if you look at a large number of TVs that are advertized as "High Definition" you'll notice that many are actually not displaying 1920x1080 but other resolutions.
That's still HD mind you.
One way of providing adult content via HD and still honor the fact that most consumers want immediate satisfaction is to provide the footage in different formats.
For example, I always published large resolution movies for download, and then another smaller version in Flash (with Flash Media Server, so everything played instantly without waiting).
Hope this helps a little
btw I've shoot all three hd formats and prefer the hdv and avchad. the 100 megabits kicked my ass on the dvc pro
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Shooting HD is not of interest to people interested in just making or watching reality porn...
But as anyone can do it the competition will be strong and the value of whats produced low...
HD is mostly used to shift TVs and is difficult to define. Feature films using 4k format of uncompressed data down to 720 line formats.
Blu ray and video projectors will look best with material shot 1920 x 1080 progressive. Most of this will be very compressed right from the shooting down to delivery.
But if investing in a film costing a few thousand dollars it is worth shooting in HD now to prolong exploitation as bandwidths increase.
The real interest to us is how the HD format allows good lighting composition and sets. And beautiful girls look even more beautiful !
So the HD camera, editing is only part of the equation ...much more money can be spent of lighting, sets, models grading... then the results are fantastic (if you want something more than just fucking)
The irony ( like brassy and goldy) is that video destroyed adult film production has now developed to such a high technical level that is now where film was and presents the same demands on production...
We are not really interested in making porn as we find it boring conservative dull exploitative and shoddy...but HD is a great new tool for making new erotic films for new audiences...Comment
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I have to agee with most of the points, I don't see any competitive advantage in offering HD.. never believed in it.Need hosting, cloud, CDN or solutions for your AI? Go faster while saving with The Last Host you'll ever need!| Double Impact PR | Telegram carl_boro | Read My Educational Series | Read my Adult Biz Chronicles|Comment
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its nice footage but doesnt look different than if it was shot with a good sd camera.The only two cameras that the footage blew me away have been red and the ex-1Last edited by tony286; 04-18-2008, 04:33 PM.Comment
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My point was it could easily be used for a major motion picture and you wouldnt know the diff. Not that it looked better than what hollywood produces. It was in response to the guy saying that it was completely unrealistic that porn could look as good as a trailer such as the ones on hulu produced for mainstream motion pictures.
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I dont want to step on the old way of thinking here, but to me a similar analogy comes to mind. Owning a video rental store and refusing to rent dvds. Saying people have been happy with VHS for YEARS I dont see any difference or any reason to change. I really can see a point within at most 10 years where our entire way of 2d thinking will be gone. Our way of interfacing with a computer will be totally different. The things we are doing now will seem entirely antiquated in less than a decade.
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because all the samples on the hulu pages were movies shot in film (not at 1920 pixels wide, but more like 3000+ pixels wide), the edited in native resolution, the resized down to 'HD', then encoded with a custom matrix PER scene at different bitrates with more than 2 passes per scene, then all scenes joined into a final trailer, then the process was repeated for the next trailer.My point was it could easily be used for a major motion picture and you wouldnt know the diff. Not that it looked better than what hollywood produces. It was in response to the guy saying that it was completely unrealistic that porn could look as good as a trailer such as the ones on hulu produced for mainstream motion pictures.
Of course I know many movies (usually STV) are shot in HDV cameras. but no pro movies (like the trailers at hulu) use such a lossy format to capture raw footage. That's why I said is unrealistic to expect and get the same quality out of a cheap HDV or h.264 HD camera.
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I mean,
How will that increase my conversion rate and retention? I would be glad to hear some stats from sponsor program owners who offer HD..
What is the end result of jacking off to HD or non HD? looks the same to me..
People were jacking off to non HD for ages so will they stop to get a boner if that will not be HD? Meaning if I will find for example a site with a solo girl that will be turning me on, I don't care if it's HD or not because both will satisfy me.
What I see is that anything long enough that moves and is playable more or less fullscreen does it..
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Only for the USATo U.S residents that dont think HD quality is possible to be delivered to the consumer. Go here.
http://www.hulu.com/hd/ Play any of the trailers. Click the fullscreen button. Im watching HD trailers with 0 buffering full screen at 1680x1050 resolution on a 22" screen. Quality where you can see hair follicles with no problem. I hook it up to a 52" plasma via svideo or dvi and I can watch it on there at nearly the same quality. We should be pushing in the same direction as mainstream.

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well you can drive a 74 pinto and get everywhere you want to go. eventually (sooner than you think) sites with SD won't 'look relevant' anymore. and yes it ultimately comes down to traffic. and think about this: you think your site is the ONLY site a suffer will see and you'll be the ONLY site with content on that model? very unrealistic if you ask me. $0.02 -bmbI mean,
People were jacking off to non HD for ages so will they stop to get a boner if that will not be HD? Meaning if I will find for example a site with a solo girl that will be turning me on, I don't care if it's HD or not because both will satisfy me.
What I see is that anything long enough that moves and is playable more or less fullscreen does it..
If you get someones eyeballs in front of your paysite and turn him on - I doubt HD will be the factor that will matter to him if to sign up or not.Comment
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Man Sticky and Bradley should a get a job selling HD camera's lol You guys use the same talking points I heard at a sony seminar trying to push hd hard. My friend is a mainstream TV videographer and most of his work is still on betacam just a fyi.
A mainstream dv mag, spoke about hd is not catching on like it was supposed to and youtube showed everyone video quality isnt as important as content.Comment
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You guys railing against HD sound silly. Assuming all other things being equal (and you are not filming tranny porn) why the hell would you want to film in SD rather than HD? The apparent quality to the end user is much higher with some form of HDV or HD filming, there is no way to deny that. (I won't make a distinction between HDV and other HD for this purpose) Again, don't compare some badly shot HD porn, to the best shot SD porn. Make it a fair comparison. Compare your own best work, or that of someone you respect that is well lit, with attractive models and good makeup, and just change the camera from an SD camera to a HDV camera leaving all other things equal. There is no way that you couldn't see the difference in the perceived quality of the image, especially in the details even if the video editor encoded the hdv footage to a mere say 3500 Kbps bitrate at 1280 x 720. Yes the file sizes will be bigger but you can always offer smaller frame sizes for smaller files.Last edited by Jim_Gunn; 04-18-2008, 08:40 PM.Comment
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Great post and spot on. The problem is sometimes the money top programs are prepared to pay a shooter, pay peanuts get monkies.I'm appalled at how many (not all) of you are running sites bragging about "HD" and your content looks like ass. You can't simply swap out your camera for an HD cam and expect it to look great without adjustments. For starters you need a lot more light than you're used to. Hence why so many of the content looks darker than it should. What is the point of shooting in HD if it looks like shit?
Secondly, choose your models better. The point of HD is that it sees EVERYTHING. That means when you hire models with jacked up legs, scars, stretch marks or has a hairy body, IT SHOWS IT!!!
I'm not going to name any names but I'm seeing some top programs who was shooting KILLER content before, now have dark and lifeless looking videos.
I'll end this rant by saying that I can't stand downloading HD videos anyway. They are too big and unless you are on a blazing connection, they just take too long. I'm sitting here with my cock on my hand, wanting to cum, and it takes a fucking hour to download some of these videos. Pornography is an impulse industry. That means guys want INSTANT gratification. Translated, men want to cum RIGHT NOW, not in an hour. Those of you with cocks should know what I'm talking about.

Plus the thinking that the image quality = porn quality. Techies think yes, porn consumers might be thinking no. Because after joining sites that with HD content that got it wrong they start to think HD is a bad thing.
As others have pointed out all HD does is expose flaws of those who can't use it.Comment
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Producing porn is not about image quality. It's about fantasy creation quality.
You can shoot the best lighting, best image, best production porn film and watch it to realise it's shit porn. Or you can shoot poor lighting, poor image, poor production film and watch to realise it's great porn. Only techies will disagree with me.
It's about the image created in the viewers brain, not the image on the screen. I like Jay's work. Not because it's good photography, it's because it's good pornography. It's good photography as well.
I'm digitising all the stuff I was shooting in the 1980s and 1990s, some of the image quality is poor. So why do members love it? They vote high for the vintage scenes over and over again. Eva is selling it on clips4sale, I know it's wrong
, and the sales and traffic are awesome. Why when the image is so poor? (Some of the girls are amateur and some professional.)
It's because the girls were usually teasing the fuck out of me behind the camera. They are getting off and enjoying themselves, the orgasms are real and the girls are real. OK some of them ham it up for the camera, but the comparison with todays models is awesome. Character and personality is what makes porn. The character and personality of the people in front and behind the camera.
The reason IMO is two fold. Girls today are more aggressive and loutish than they were 20 years ago, not a good thing for porn. Plus there is too much work for them shot by people who have lost the art of directing them. There are many exceptions but when an industry thinks the route to more sales is the image quality and not the porn quality the results are obvious.Comment
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Bingo. That is my whole point.
How will that increase my conversion rate and retention? I would be glad to hear some stats from sponsor program owners who offer HD..
What is the end result of jacking off to HD or non HD? looks the same to me..
People were jacking off to non HD for ages so will they stop to get a boner if that will not be HD? Meaning if I will find for example a site with a solo girl that will be turning me on, I don't care if it's HD or not because both will satisfy me.
What I see is that anything long enough that moves and is playable more or less fullscreen does it..
If you get someones eyeballs in front of your paysite and turn him on - I doubt HD will be the factor that will matter to him if to sign up or not.Comment
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I just told you some of the reasons. But another one is few models and even fewer make up artists can cover all the skin imperfections on models. HD works best on top end productions, Amateur, Gonzo, etc does not need it. So unless the models have flawless skin and the make up artist knows what they are doing the over all effect is to show more clearly the flaws that bring the fantasy crashing down.You guys railing against HD sound silly. Assuming all other things being equal (and you are not filming tranny porn) why the hell would you want to film in SD rather than HD? The apparent quality to the end user is much higher with some form of HDV or HD filming, there is no way to deny that. (I won't make a distinction between HDV and other HD for this purpose) Again, don't compare some badly shot HD porn, to the best shot SD porn. Make it a fair comparison. Compare your own best work, or that of someone you respect that is well lit, with attractive models and good makeup, and just change the camera from an SD camera to a HDV camera leaving all other things equal. There is no way that you couldn't see the difference in the perceived quality of the image, especially in the details even if the video editor encoded the hdv footage to a mere say 3500 Kbps bitrate at 1280 x 720. Yes the file sizes will be bigger but you can always offer smaller frame sizes for smaller files.
The people impressed with image quality are not usually the guys with a credit card in one hand and their dick in the other one.
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Spot on. Problem is techies (sponsors and affiliates) are turned on by HD. They think everyone is. The surfer's not thinking about image quality and if he is you lost the erection and sale.
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