Friday, October 19, 2007, 9:05p.m. The HD industry is now moving to join forces with the multi-million dollar porn industry. Blu-Ray and HD DVD are pushing the porn industry to join either format. Joseph Menn and Dawn C. Chmielewski, writers for Time Magazine, said “group pitching Blu-ray visited the Canoga Park offices of Wicked Pictures, whose films include “As Sleazy as 1-2-3″ and “Womb Raiders.” Wicked executive Jackie Ramos said the Blu-ray proponents spent hours explaining how the movie studio could benefit from releasing Blu-ray DVDs, which deliver dramatically higher picture quality than conventional discs”. With the race close, both sides are looking at porn kings in the San Fernando Valley, since porn makes up about ten percent of the 24 million dollar DVD industry.
Analysis
Porn makes up 10% of the DVD market. 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. (181)
