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Blu-ray gives pornsters the horn
IT WAS PORN that largely sent Betamax packing if urban myth holds any water at all.
And now, as the disc format wars enter the final battle of this generation, pornsters are hedging their bets instead of putting their money where most of us wouldn't dare put barge pole.
Next to CES in Las Vegas is a little light relief in the form of the Adult Entertainment Expo 2008, and hacks genally amble by to see what all the fuss is about.
PC Mag hack Chloe Albanesius, found some responsible adults there in loquacious mood about HD.
Jeff Thill, director of video operations for the Hustler Video Group, reckoned Blu-ray was "a little bit of a headache" because of royalty fees, but its also "sounds sexier."
He told the hackette the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD boiled down to " six of one, a half dozen of the other," whilst giving Blu-ray the nod because of its "important base in the gaming world."
Hustler has released a couple of titles on HD-DVD format, but expects most of its high-definition output in 2008, to be on Blu-ray, Thill said.
Other peddlers of filth questioned were happy to sit on the fence and see what unfolded. µ
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I agree with the comment regarding record time being the major issue from the first day of video recorder marketing.

In 1979 RCA sold a $1200 VHS recorder that was the first high volume recorder. There was no Beta units in the US market for many months. 

The RCA unit could record football games and movies.

Beta was more expensive, late and offered a better picture but could not overcome the the limitations regarding sports and movie recording. 

The mass produced content for these machines such as porn and pre-recorded movies may have been a factor eventually, but these would have much later.
Well, I don't think (even if the urban legends about the last format battles are true) the pornography industry will have much effect on the success of either standard this time around. The advent of cheap On Demand and, er, 'free Internet services' means people no longer have to pay to get high-quality pornography.

In short, video games have replaced porn as the flagship product for this generation's success.

Mmm, video game porn.
Who needs HiDef DVD if there`s youpr0n?
I've seen it pointed out that the industry then was tiny compared to nowadays and that most cassette copies were bootlegs.

"IT WAS PORN that largely sent Betamax packing if urban myth holds any water at all."

It doesn't. Porn was about the _only_ thing that kept Betamax going, because Betamax could pause, which VHS couldn't. And porn movies were about 1 hour long, which was all you could fit into the early Betamax tapes. 

That was exactly what killed them: the tapes weren't big enough to hold a full feature-length movie (VHS tapes were). That meant you couldn't program your VCR to record a movie and go out, because someone would have to be there to swap the tape. It also meant video rental clubs had to have twice as many tapes for the same number of films. THAT is what killed Betamax. By the time 120 and 180 minute Betamax tapes became available, over 70% of consumers had picked VHS.