Oh Sony!

[Smog Boy]

Sony, Shunning Porn Producers, May Hurt Blu-ray Sales


Sony may have shot itself in the foot by resolving not to permit its disc duplicators to produce "adult content" on Blu-ray discs, several consumer electronics and DVD websites observed Thursday. One adult-film producer, Digital Playground, told the British online publication The Inquirer, that it had decided to switch from Blu-ray to HD DVD because "Sony has said to the replicators that if you replicate adult, you'll lose your license." The Inquirer quoted Jake Richter, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research as saying in a report to clients that many people believe that Sony's Betamax video tape format died because the adult movie industry was barred from using it. "Is Sony doomed to repeat one of the mistakes of the past? It seems like that may be the case," he wrote. Likewise, PC World magazine commented that Sony ought to "remember what happened more than two decades ago, when the adult film industry was forced to produce its content on VHS, and not Sony's Betamax." However, Martin Lynch of the IDG news service wrote that some porn produces are in fact finding Blu-ray disc manufacturers who are willing to work with them, adding, "You can say a lot of things about Sony but stupid isn't one of them. Well, most of the time anyway. There is no way that Sony can ignore the boost that porn can give the Blu-ray format." IMDb

Is anyone here going for either Blu-Ray or HD formats?

[Fox]

Yeah, I don't know what the fuck in wrong with Sony. I mean, there's that whole laptop battery recall, the PS3 launch was a disaster (not to mention the lies about it, no hardware scaler, no firmware to fix backwards compatibility, the whole 720p issue, etc) and now this.

I don't have an HDTV yet so for now it's pointless to adopt either format. I'd try to keep my eye on a hybrid player that plays both formats if I were looking to jump in the fray.

[peggygee]

Sony, Shunning Porn Producers, May Hurt Blu-ray Sales


Sony may have shot itself in the foot by resolving not to permit its disc duplicators to produce "adult content" on Blu-ray discs, several consumer electronics and DVD websites observed Thursday. One adult-film producer, Digital Playground, told the British online publication The Inquirer, that it had decided to switch from Blu-ray to HD DVD because "Sony has said to the replicators that if you replicate adult, you'll lose your license." The Inquirer quoted Jake Richter, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research as saying in a report to clients that many people believe that Sony's Betamax video tape format died because the adult movie industry was barred from using it. "Is Sony doomed to repeat one of the mistakes of the past? It seems like that may be the case," he wrote. Likewise, PC World magazine commented that Sony ought to "remember what happened more than two decades ago, when the adult film industry was forced to produce its content on VHS, and not Sony's Betamax." However, Martin Lynch of the IDG news service wrote that some porn produces are in fact finding Blu-ray disc manufacturers who are willing to work with them, adding, "You can say a lot of things about Sony but stupid isn't one of them. Well, most of the time anyway. There is no way that Sony can ignore the boost that porn can give the Blu-ray format." IMDb

Is anyone here going for either Blu-Ray or HD formats?

Yeah, it's deja vu all over again, vis - a -vis the Betamax versus
VHS debacles.

But fear naught, technophiles your prayers have been answerered.

LG Electronics (LG), a leader in consumer electronics
and mobile communicati ons, announced that it will launch
the world's first dual-format high-definition disc player,
capable of playing both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD content.
The unit will be released in the United States in early 2007.

Details will be provided at the 2007 International Consumer
Electronics Show (CES), held January 8-11 in Las Vegas.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/dreams-do-come-true-lgs-makes-worlds-first-blurayhd-dvd-dualformat-player-225924.php

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[Fox]

Heh, what she said. :p

[hwbs]

quote : I don't have an HDTV yet so for now it's pointless to adopt either format. I'd try to keep my eye on a hybrid player that plays both formats if I were looking to jump in the fray


LG makes a hybrid player already that plays blu-ray and hd-dvd ...its like $1100-1200....but keep in mind that its the first one out ....give it a year or so and it will be much cheaper...

[Smog Boy]

Another company is making an all-new DVD player that plays Blu-Ray, HD and regular DVD's.

Not forgetting that someone out there has already broken the copy-protection software on Blu-Ray and HD, which sucks for the millions of dollars invested in the software. You can download the film Serenity, in full HD.

[hwbs]

ill stick with my 1080i hdmi player.....plus its too expensive for those movies..ill wait till the prices drop...

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

it's almost as if they WANT to hand over the media peripheral industry to Steve Jobs & Bill Gates

back in the 80's if you wanted to hear music you had a cassette player attached to your hip and even if it was from AIWA (remember them? lol) Panasonic, etc. people called it a Walkman because Sony pushed the name so hard that it became a staple in the industry, how they let Apple slap an lcd and a few buttons on a laptop hard drive and take over what was essentially theirs is beyond me

The problem at Sony is that the old (VERY OLD) execs that will never be forced into retirement are basically killing the company

The PS3 should have been the gaming system of our time, shame on them for designing a system that was prone to crash on multiple games

The Blu-Ray was supposed to be the 2nd coming, a DVD that is the equivalent of the original CD-ROM to the floppy diskette, now Sony is telling companies what they can & can't do with them

Apple & Big M would be wise to partner up with a 3rd company and wipe Sony away while the self inflicted wounds are still fresh

[Fockzilla]

For the first time I actually feel grateful I have an xbox 360 instead of a ps3. Ha-ha! First Asimo now this! The future looks grim for sony.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

How is the Xbox 360? I was a HUGE fan of the original Xbox, but my girl at the time of it's entry bought me a PS2 so I never got one

Hollywood and my little nephew have almost gotten me psyched enough to buy the Wii, even though i HATE Nintendo, but I'm hesitant after having to take my nephew out on Xmas day to get some batteries for the remotes for that thing

[laoda8]

I just find it unbelievable that people still are drooling over a format made by a company that seems to favor failing over succeeding in media formats. They really have a horrible track record of media that fails. I'd like to see sony a few years from now, egg on face, wondering what that smell was when they woke up. It's failure and denial. And cheap hooker.

[Smog Boy]

Xbox 360 is an amazing piece of hardware, games are great, the multi media hardware is absoluetly top notch. PS3 has nothing to outdo it, and every other PS3 exclusive game has jumped ship to X360, they've lost the Grand Theft Auto franchise and when Halo 3 is released it'll be PS what?

[iodine8]

I have a 360, it's great. Just wish it had more than 20gb hard drive. There is a newer version coming out I think it's the 360 zepher.

[Fockzilla]

Sorta back on topic:

On the wiki I see that they've got an HD DVD player for the 360, it costs about $200, how much was the bluray player again? Considering that my folks were considering getting an HDTV to go with the Box, I think the HD player would actually tip the scales and get it bought after all. I'm thinking "how much porn can I store on an HD Disk?"... that is the question in my head at the moment and probably the deciding factor in this little dilemma. Even if they aren't made for storage I heard there's already lots of porn being published in HD. One of my instructors in the art college used to be the head of PBS in San Fran, the way he explained it all the big channels are going HD. Sesame Street with a zoom function... Pretty cool, eh? 8)

[Smog Boy]

If HD DVD has more capacity, imagine multiple films on one disc, with no lack of picture from the compression.

I was reading a few days back if you play a film called The Descent on a PS3 it's great, if you play the same disc on a Blu-Ray player there's no picture at all, just ironically a blue screen.

In the UK, the HD player for a X360 is £120 (with a free copy of King Kong), bargain!