Sony Blocks Porn On Blu-Ray (Straight From AEE Floor)

http://www.sgknox.com/2007/01/11/no-porn-on-blu-ray/

Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray.

It does not matter how you stand to porn. It is here and it is a massive business. It is also an industry that is an early adopter for new media technology. VHS might not have won with out the adult film industry adopting it.

German Heise has interviewed Joone the founder of Digital Playgrounds at the AVN 2007 show in Las Vegas. Joone says actually said last year he is committed to Blu-ray. Now they announced four HD DVD titles in the United States. In the interview Joone says he was forced to use HD DVD, because no Blu-ray disc manufacturer would make his discs, because Sony was against it and they would loose their license.

If this holds true, Blu-ray is at a major disadvantage and could fail.

[sicone]

Bold move on Sony's part. Wonder how this will affect their sales?

[directfiesta]

repeat of history ....

[MrPinks]

Well I was gunning for HD DVD so hopefully this will help them win the current format war.

[Sosa]

Suprising they would do that. I think you would want your new technology to play everything.

[badmunchkin]

that's funny - I was just talking to someone about the HD versus Blu-Ray format war the other day - and they said whichever format porn goes with is the one that will survive

[BusterBunny]

Originally Posted by sicone

Bold move on Sony's part. Wonder how this will affect their sales?

betamax

Originally Posted by directfiesta

repeat of history ....

[MrPinks]

Isn't HD DVD backwards compatitble unlike Blu Ray?

[the source]

No porn blu-rays eh..... well That fucking blows.. Blu-ray is the superior HD format

this is 1 sad cubscout.

[ElvisManson]

nail, meet coffin.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by the source

No porn blu-rays eh..... well That fucking blows.. Blu-ray is the superior HD format

this is 1 sad cubscout.

Sanctimonius bastards, hope they lose the war , better quality or not

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by MrPinks

Isn't HD DVD backwards compatitble unlike Blu Ray?

Not all of the HDDVDs are able to be played in standard DVD players. I'd say at this point, it's about 60% or so.

[cheekycherry]

A "format" producer should NOT be able to censor the material that goes onto that media format. It's a fuckin storage device, nothing more.

If this is the case and is true, the battle has already been won.

HD DVD WILL win the battle.

[cheekycherry]

A "format" producer should NOT be able to censor the material that goes onto that media format. It's a fuckin storage device, nothing more.

If this is the case and is true, the battle has already been won.

HD DVD WILL win the battle.

[Martin3]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Not all of the HDDVDs are able to be played in standard DVD players. I'd say at this point, it's about 60% or so.

None of them can. You guys maybe confusing the combo disc's(hd-dvd on one side, dvd on the other)

[BusterBunny]

Originally Posted by Martin3

None of them can. You guys maybe confusing the combo disc's(hd-dvd on one side, dvd on the other)

dig the sig

[JD]

say good night to blu-ray...

[MrPinks]

I'm not talking about playing HD DVDs in a standard player. I'm talking about playing standard DVDs in a HD DVD player.

Originally Posted by Martin3

None of them can. You guys maybe confusing the combo disc's(hd-dvd on one side, dvd on the other)

[WiredGuy]

How do you create a bluray movie? I can't see that you need to send the movie to Sony to encode it for you?
WG

[Shoehorn!]

Originally Posted by directfiesta

repeat of history ....

Exactly.

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by Martin3

None of them can. You guys maybe confusing the combo disc's(hd-dvd on one side, dvd on the other)

Yeah, that's what I thought he was referring to. I didn't think anyone would be dumb enough to think you could play HDDVDs in a standard DVD player.

[seeric]

good. fucking blue ray dvds cost 80 bucks.

fuck sony!

[biftek]

Originally Posted by cheekycherry

A "format" producer should NOT be able to censor the material that goes onto that media format. It's a fuckin storage device, nothing more.

If this is the case and is true, the battle has already been won.

HD DVD WILL win the battle.

all to do with the EULA

[babsy]

Originally Posted by the source

No porn blu-rays eh..... well That fucking blows.. Blu-ray is the superior HD format

this is 1 sad cubscout.

Blu-ray might be technically better, but it's backed by a bunch of assholes (Sony) who are very much going out of their way to make life difficult on consumers and their competitors. HD-DVD is the more "open" of the standards as things currently stand, and while it's technically inferior (but not by THAT much), I predict it will win out. Of course, you can get drives that will read both formats, so in the end, it might not matter. As soon as those wacky scientists invent dual-format burners, well, that's it, the race kinda fizzles out in to whoever can supply the blank media the cheapest.

In conclusion, fuck Sony.

[Basic_man]

So, I guess HD-DVD will win by far on the blu-ray!!

[Jace]

Originally Posted by A1R3K

good. fucking blue ray dvds cost 80 bucks.

fuck sony!

all new formats are expensive before they become wide spread

hell, i remember when I was buying dvd+r media for $10-20 a pop

[Scott McD]

Fuck Sony and Blu-Ray anyway.

Sony should have made blu-ray an add on for the PS3, but instead, gave gamers no choice, added it in, and bumped the price of the machine up.


The reason we here in the UK are still waiting for the PS3 release (due March now) is because of the stupid blu-ray shit. And the console will cost £425 when released...

[GTS Mark]

If you ask me I think a big opening in the market just emerged... Anyone want to open up a Blu-ray disc factory that is adult friendly ;)

DH

[ucv.karl]

Originally Posted by Scott McD

Fuck Sony and Blu-Ray anyway.

Sony should have made blu-ray an add on for the PS3, but instead, gave gamers no choice, added it in, and bumped the price of the machine up.

I think Sony is using Blu-ray because the discs hold 50Gigs and that will definitely be useful in the future advances for this generations console. The xbox360 is currently restricted to using DVDs which is 4.7 (single) or 9Gigs (dual). For game developers the greater disk space might allow for some cool shit.

[ucv.karl]

Why is Vivid saying in this interview from Nov 2006 they are still using Blu-ray?

http://www.tvpredictions.com/hirsch111006.htm

"Steve Hirsch: We will be releasing our first high-def DVD in the first quarter of 2007. We're working on it now. It will be a Blu-ray DVD..."

Maybe the guy from Vivid is smart enough to own his own manufacturing facility.

[biftek]

Originally Posted by ucv.karl

Why is Vivid saying in this interview from Nov 2006 they are still using Blu-ray?

http://www.tvpredictions.com/hirsch111006.htm

"Steve Hirsch: We will be releasing our first high-def DVD in the first quarter of 2007. We're working on it now. It will be a Blu-ray DVD..."

Maybe the guy from Vivid is smart enough to own his own manufacturing facility.

i hardly doubt that , unless they wanted to haggle over licencing with sony(the owner of bluray) and the blu-ray disc association , which consists of
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment

[Hunter_ST]

Originally Posted by ElvisManson

nail, meet coffin.

grabbing my hammer now... dumbasses

[JFK]

Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST

If you ask me I think a big opening in the market just emerged... Anyone want to open up a Blu-ray disc factory that is adult friendly ;)

DH

well I think you are missing the point here DH, its the technology they wont share

[tony286]

I think hd dvd is going to win the war its cheaper and now that porn can only go on it.

[ucv.karl]

Originally Posted by JFK

well I think you are missing the point here DH, its the technology they wont share

Vivid is saying they're releasing a Blu-ray DVD in the first quarter of 07. What is Sony not sharing?

[GTS Mark]

Originally Posted by JFK

well I think you are missing the point here DH, its the technology they wont share

hehe i know but some underground factory in Japan has probably figured out the blue-ray technology by now and could be making bank distributing adult stuff ;)

DH

[Elli]

Sad, sad, sad. And here I was just getting curious about the Blu-Ray hoo hah.

[notabook]

Originally Posted by ucv.karl

The xbox360 is currently restricted to using DVDs which is 4.7 (single) or 9Gigs (dual). For game developers the greater disk space might allow for some cool shit.

That's just really not true at the moment. Most PC games are STILL coming on CD (which are either one or two cds these days) so there is barely a rush to go to DVD. The only 'taxing' games that actually can fill a DVD are of the Oblivion quality and we won't see very many games like that for a while. Dual layer DVDs (I think all 360 games are of the dual layer dvd variety, even though they could easily fit on a single layer DVD) are more than enough to see through the lifespan of the 360. By the time the 360 is ready to be retired the games will all probably be in the same state they are in right now when compared to CD?s (one to two dual-layer dvds) and the next format will just barely be tapped into.

[jeffrey]

Originally Posted by MrPinks

I'm not talking about playing HD DVDs in a standard player. I'm talking about playing standard DVDs in a HD DVD player.

Both bluray and hd dvd players will play a standard dvd.

Originally Posted by WiredGuy

How do you create a bluray movie? I can't see that you need to send the movie to Sony to encode it for you?
WG

You need a special facility to make the disks, current dvd facilities cant just be updated like they can for hd dvd.
If you dont have licensing for the bluray Sony will just sue you.

Originally Posted by A1R3K

good. fucking blue ray dvds cost 80 bucks.

fuck sony!

They are 20 bucks a disk right now. And a writer is 900.

I remember when dvds were that much too.
Hell I remember when the cassette load 1x cdr drives came out the blank cds were like 15 bucks each.

Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST

If you ask me I think a big opening in the market just emerged... Anyone want to open up a Blu-ray disc factory that is adult friendly ;)

DH

Sony wont give you licencing, meaning they would be illegal, meaning sony would sue you.

[tony286]

doesnt sony know their vx2000 was the industry standard for making porn lol

[93sc]

With dual format players being released, does it really matter? If you got a player that does both formats, do you really care that much? I think that LG just took most of the wind out of the format war.

[jeffrey]

Originally Posted by 93sc

With dual format players being released, does it really matter? If you got a player that does both formats, do you really care that much? I think that LG just took most of the wind out of the format war.

at the tiny price of 1200+

[93sc]

Originally Posted by jeffrey

at the tiny price of 1200+

Yea, now. What do you think they are going ot be selling for in a year after more companies start producing them?

[ucv.karl]

Originally Posted by notabook

That's just really not true at the moment. Most PC games are STILL coming on CD (which are either one or two cds these days) so there is barely a rush to go to DVD. The only 'taxing' games that actually can fill a DVD are of the Oblivion quality and we won't see very many games like that for a while. Dual layer DVDs (I think all 360 games are of the dual layer dvd variety, even though they could easily fit on a single layer DVD) are more than enough to see through the lifespan of the 360. By the time the 360 is ready to be retired the games will all probably be in the same state they are in right now when compared to CD?s (one to two dual-layer dvds) and the next format will just barely be tapped into.

Resistance: Fall of Man for PS3 at 22Gigs almost fills an entire Blu-ray single layer disc. And it's the first iteration of PS3 games. I can't image to see what the next iteration brings.

[ucv.karl]

Originally Posted by tony404

doesnt sony know their vx2000 was the industry standard for making porn lol

[V_RocKs]

Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST

hehe i know but some underground factory in Japan has probably figured out the blue-ray technology by now and could be making bank distributing adult stuff ;)

DH

Except for the fact that Japan does have copywrite laws...

[V_RocKs]

And porn wasn't the big reason for VHS over Betamax... It was the length of recording... Betamax originally couldn't record over 60 minutes.. So movie producers porn or mainstream couldn't release movies in it...

So everyone bought VHS players that could play the VHS movies that were available first.

[Red Ezra]

75% of porn is shot on sony cameras

[notabook]

Originally Posted by ucv.karl

Resistance: Fall of Man for PS3 at 22Gigs almost fills an entire Blu-ray single layer disc. And it's the first iteration of PS3 games. I can't image to see what the next iteration brings.

It's most likely just junk data @ 22Gigs with actual data being closer to 5-7GB at max. Since there are no PS3 games that are of higher caliber than anything that a 360 has, and consideing both can display @ 1080, AND since MS has no plans to go above a dual-layer DVD for games on a 360, then we can assume that Fall of Man's actual data is closer to the 5-7GB range and the rest is merely filler/junk data.

[DaddyHalbucks]

Idiots!

Didn't Sony learn their lesson with Beta-Max?