| JSF said: To Dryden, nobody said porn is not going to be on Blu-ray. However, contractually, Disney forbids anyone who handles their stuff to also handle adult content. This is to prevent disastrous packaging mix-ups (e.g., porno viewers getting the wrong "Bambi"). Disc presses that press Disney discs cannot press porno discs. That's where your rumor stems from. There are some Blu-ray presses that do not handle Disney. That is where the Blu-ray porn will come from. |
And I didn't say it either. Read my post again, I said "Sony has already said they won't approve pressing of pornographic content onto BD," which is nearly verbatim what every single Web/News/Blog site reported back in mid-January. Just Google "Sony says no to porn" to read the details.
Also, Disney's contractual obligations with presses are independant of any agreement with Sony. Those two are not intertwined, but together between their influence of just a handful (speculation is only eight) BD presses in the world, the two can collude to lock out other markets as they see fit.
See here: http://cinematech.blogspot.com/2007/02/sci-tech-oscars-3-d-report-film.html
"For Vivid Entertainment Group, the physical production of Blu-ray discs will come to about 35% of those movies' budgets, compared with 15% for HD DVDs and 10% for a standard DVD, said Vivid Chief Executive Steve Hirsch.
Even if a porn studio wants to pay extra for Blu-ray, Sony and Walt Disney Co. make it hard.
Sony manufactures Blu-ray discs but won't do it for adult titles. And Disney requires the replicators it uses to pledge not to use the same machines and employees to publish porn. Disney has its reasons: In the past, porn snippets have accidentally shown up on Disney titles. Neither company would comment for the record about porn.
Since Disney uses most of the biggest U.S. Blu-ray replicators, L.A.-based Vivid, the only adult producer to promise some Blu-ray discs, has been forced to range far afield."
