Yulegoat on 20 January 2007
Stromprophet said:
This war is not going to be decided by porn. Get real, DVD sales have slowed dramatically since the net has become the #1 medium for pornography. Majority of porn revenues are now from the net.
Actually Macworld is not the only site to make such a prediction. Check out these for example:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=111087
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/
And as for the DVD-sales, they are actually going up, or at least that was the case in 2005:
"Large Increase in Porn DVD Sales Indicates Growing Pornography Addiction"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121603.html
The U.S. adult film industry was apparently a $12 billion dollar business in 2006, while the legitimate mainstream American cinema was worth of $9 billion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070119/tc_zd/199033
(Porn outsells Hollywood)
And of the 9 billion, there's a lot of material which wouldn't imo significantlty benefit from high-def, like drama, cartoons and comedy. I'd say it's action and porn fans who are the most eager to see moving picture in high definition. Of those two, porn is by far going to have more great new content by the time the format war's solution is decided.
