Blu-ray Gets Adult Film Support
Digital Playground says PS3 owners are demanding films in the format.
By Swanni
That's according to an article by CEPro.com.
Digital Playground's decision is significant because company founder Joone blasted Blu-ray earlier this year, charging its backers, particularly Sony, with blocking the adult industry's effort to release films in the high-def disc format.
Joone said Digital Playground, and other adult studios, would likely embrace rival high-def format HD DVD by default.
However, Joone now tells CePro that PlayStation 3 owners have been demanding that the studio release movies in the Blu-ray format. (PlayStation 3, owned by more than two million people in North America, has a Blu-ray player inside.)
“A lot of people were emailing that bought a PlayStation and they were basically saying, ‘When are you guys going to release Blu-ray?’ They really have no preference in format yet because it’s so now. When it comes down to image quality, there is no difference between the two."
Joone acknowledges that it's less expensive to release a title on HD DVD.
“It costs a lot more to put out a title on Blu-ray," he told the web site.
Joone added that Digital Playground, which has released a handful of films on HD DVD, has an 80 percent market share in the adult category for high-def DVD porn. And the company will continue to release films in both formats "until there is a clear-cut winner.”
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