According to heise online, Sony had said no to pornographic films on Blu-ray. One famous director from porn industry (formerly a big fan of Blu-ray format) said: “Sony wants me to publish my films on HD DVD.”. This is a big mistake for Blu-ray. Porn industry is huge! In January 2006 adult entertainment company Digital Playground announced that they would be supplying content on the Blu-ray format. As a consequence Digital Playground now intends to release HD DVD products at a rapid rate. Thank God we have HD DVD format!

This is a U-turn for Joone, who at last year’s AVN event had declared his support for the Blu-ray Disc format. Asked about his change of attitude by heise online the director responded: “Sony wants me to publish my films on HD DVD.” He then went on to explain that he had in fact wanted to publish his movies on Blu-ray Disc, but that all Blu-ray Disc copying facilities in the United States had refused to cooperate. The companies had unanimously declared that Sony had threatened to withdraw their Blu-ray licenses should they stoop to making HD copies of pornographic films, Joone said. Even though he would have liked to supply with his movies the predominantly male group of Playstation 3 players he had been forced by events, he declared, to switch to HD DVD. The game console has the ability to play Blu-ray Discs built into it. The director said he was puzzled by Sony’s attitude, which, he noted, had also turned out to be counterproductive in the case of Betamax.

As a consequence Digital Playground now intends to release HD DVD products at a rapid rate: Thus between now and the first week of February the company, with “Island Fever 3,” “Pirates,” “Teen America” and “Island Fever 4,” will launch onto the US market as many as four titles. Thereafter up to the end of the year the company will aim to release four HD-DVD titles a month. While “Island Fever 3″ and “Pirates” are combined discs with an HD-DVD and a DVD side to them, “Teen America” and “Island Fever 4″ are pure HD DVDs. Each disc will probably cost 5 US dollars more than its DVD counterpart.

Source: heise online