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Originally Posted by 20-12-22
How the hell do you figure that? You do know Porn dominates dvd sales right?
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According to the Video Software Dealers Association porn accounts for a mere 2% of DVD sales/rentals. Which makes sense. More people buy regular DVDs and rent regular DVDs than purchase or rent porn. You can see that from teh number of regular video stores and how big they are compared to porn stores.
According to the porn indutry's own, never verified and therefore inflated numbers they account for less than 10%. They are not a significant factor in this format war. Porn makes it money through the internet and that will remain the case. And let's be honest some things you don't want to see in HD!
It also wasn't the big decider for Beta vs VHS either. The adult industry did not pick sides in that battle until it was clear VHS was outselling Beta. Up to that point they offered both formats. What killed Beta was that VHS was a cheaper and more open technology while Beta was Sony's proprietary format that they controlled much too rigidly. IN the end Sony killed their own Betamax format.
What will become a significant factor in all likelihood is the internet HD movie downloads (like the Xbox live service) and eventual HD movie offerings from TV cable companies.
This is not a war that will be over anytime soon. Before the majority of people even start thinking HD-DVD or Blu-ray they have to purchase a HD-TV...which won't be for a few years yet.