not sure if you're kidding (or how much) but this time 'round, the porn industry waited until the mainstream industry settled on blueray before they did. Until Jan 2008, most were putting out titles in both.
VHS v Beta is *partially* porn-driven, but much of that was because Beta was a patented standard (tapes had a licensing fee), where-as VHS was open. So VHS had 2 things going for it (to counter the fact that Beta was better quality) - longer time at home-taping speeds (6 hr), and cheaper for distributors because of cheaper tapes.
both HDDVD and BlueRay cost about the same in patent licensing (collectively, about twice as much as a normal dvd), so that wasn't a factor.
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Date: 2008-12-30 02:19 pm (UTC)VHS v Beta is *partially* porn-driven, but much of that was because Beta was a patented standard (tapes had a licensing fee), where-as VHS was open. So VHS had 2 things going for it (to counter the fact that Beta was better quality) - longer time at home-taping speeds (6 hr), and cheaper for distributors because of cheaper tapes.
both HDDVD and BlueRay cost about the same in patent licensing (collectively, about twice as much as a normal dvd), so that wasn't a factor.