BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)

Subject: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 08:23 PM

HD DVD or Blu-ray?

This article points out an "accepted" principle in high-technology competition that may not be well known among those who don't watch the details. It may come as a surprise to some, and rants, raves, opines, and protests at many levels may be expected.

Make of it what you will – from PC Magazine:

[quote]

It's a dirty little secret that's not all that dirty (or secretive) for those who follow technology trends. The porn, or "adult industry" —to use today's preferred nomenclature—tends to serve as something of an oracle when it comes to predicting which technologies eventually make their way into the marketplace and which ones don't. If you want to know where consumer technology is heading, look to porno and war, or so the axiom goes.

Twenty-five years ago, it was the adult industry that played a major role in shaping the future of American home entertainment, at least for the following 15 years or so. Suffering from stagnant theater and video-booth revenues, the industry made a bold decision to shift toward a new method for distributing its content. In the process, porno cozied up to a budding VHS format in lieu of what many considered to be its superior Betamax cousin. Granted, Sony (the progenitor of Betamax) had a lot to do with that ultimate decision, essentially refusing to let its burgeoning format be sullied by pornography hawkers. But nevertheless, when the adult industry gave the thumbs up to VHS, the result of the format war was pretty much a foregone conclusion.

What followed is now common knowledge. The explosion in the early 80s of VCRs and home-video rentals did for the adult industry pretty much what TV did for pro football.

Today, of course, there is a new format war at hand, one between two high-definition discs whose similarities far outweigh their differences. Nevertheless—whether it be out of habit or simply a wish for the whole thing to be over and done with—many have started looking toward the adult entertainment industry to get a better feel of which way the high-definition winds are truly blowing.

As was expected, the 2007 CES saw even more posturing and politics between the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps, ... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
Although the vagaries of entertainment accounting have become legendary, it is universally acknowledged that the U.S. adult-film industry, at around $12 billion in annual sales, rentals, and cable charges in 2006, is an even grander and more efficient moneymaking machine than legitimate mainstream American cinema (the latter's annual gross came in at $9 billion for 2006).

[end quote]

Read it for yourselves, if you wish.

John

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 02:12 AM

And Jenna Jameson shall lead them all.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 04:29 AM

Well I had to look her up, but she was AVN's 2007 "Crossover Star of the Year." - whatever that category means(?).

I really doubt that most people realize just how big the business is, or how much influence it has. Maybe the thread needed a more "noticeable" title?

John

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 07:33 AM

I just thought it would be about watching television at an angle, when sitting to one side of the set - which is what I have to do at my son's house because he has a wide-screen set that distorts the picture. It doesn't seem to bother him (might be because he is a cartoonist) but I can't bear the distortion - short fat people, cars with oval wheels etc.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Grab
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 08:12 AM

Interestingly, the Register had an article saying that porn stars didn't want HDTV. The article said that they could get away with on current cameras, apparently they can't on HDTV - all the makeup, silicone, plastic surgery etc is visible. Not that I'd know, of course...

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 02:25 PM

It is true that porno and gaming drive the technology these days. Strange but true, unfortunately.

I was reading an article that said the new HDTV was causing TV actresses to have to spend more time in the make-up chair in order to hide their "flaws" better so they aren't as visible in the new hi-def broadcasts.

Apparently, it doesn't apply to the male actors because the public expects them to look rougher. But I doubt that. In our "metrosexual" age, I figure the guys will soon have to get caked up as well.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 03:59 PM

what a shame that people might have to actually look like...ummm...people.

The next step will be digitally animated productions, porn & all....so they don't even have to pay actresses.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 07:51 PM

Hmmmm. Bill? They won't have to pay "actresses"? Only the male actors? How does that work?

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 08:00 PM

Well, ladies have always boasted that it is easy for them to fake things, but with a man it always shows.... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 09:38 PM

What I really want to know is whether or not I will have to buy new TVs to watch what little TV I do watch...and why I should bother.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:01 PM

So you can't count the hairs in Gilligan's nostrils.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:01 PM

Fuck! Should be can.

Subject: RE: BS: HDTV viewed slantwise (semi-tech)
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 09:36 AM

Maybe the thread needed a more "noticeable" title?

I hadn't looked at this thread till now and was just quickly skimming through it, and read JIK's line here as

Maybe the thread needed more "noticeable" tits?

Probably quite suitable considering the subject matter ;-)