Blu Ray does Porn
In what is sure to advance the adoption of the Blu-Ray format, Japanese porn resellers have found a maker in Taiwan that is willing to press Blu-Ray format disks, and ship the goods back to Japan for sale in Japanese Shops. While in other countries, porn has advanced the adoption of HD-DVD.
“In Japan, there are some problems. Companies cannot press Blu-ray discs because they cannot touch adult-related contracts,” Kiyotaka Konno, director of administration at Assist, a Japanese company that authors and replicates DVDs for the adult industry in Japan, told IDG News.
“So we asked some makers in Taiwan to do the work, and then we import the discs back to Japan. The Taiwanese company was able to obtain a pressing machine from Sony and will start mass production in August.” Source: VUNet
While the loophole exists, and the format “wars” continue on, most people believe that it was porn that drove the adoption of VHS over Beta Max for the same reason. People buy porn, people watch porn, and one of the major influences on ecommerce has been porn. While everyone hopes that Sony will not make the same mistake it made with beta max. It looks like Sony is turning a blind eye to the folks in Taiwan.
That is until the publicity catches up with them, then Sony might just take a look at the whole thing again and either pull the license to stamp blu ray disks, or just continue to look the other way. No official endorsement at all, and no official condemnation either.
It will be interesting to see what ends up happening on this one. Sony can have it one way or the other, really, we think they should just ignore the plan in Taiwan, and let the market take its course.
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