Porn Producer About Face Strikes Blu-Ray Hard

Last year, various adult DVD publishers pledged their support of the Blu-Ray format over HD-DVD. I said, at the time, that this would be enough to win the war for Blu-Ray, to kill their rival dead.

Now, of course, a surprising twist has come along and the porn industry could be just about to deal a death blow to Blu-Ray instead.

Digital Playground, I am told, produce and release a very, very large proportion of America's pornography. They had announced that their titles would be available exclusively on Blu-Ray, but today, they've pulled a u-turn and declared that their titles will be released exclusively on HD-DVD. Apparently, they haven't been able to get any Blu-Ray pressing plants to accept their material, these plants citing Sony licensing policy as their reason for refusal.

If this is true, and Sony is cesnoring the content of Blu-Ray disc, it's a very bad thing indeed - and not necessarily regarding adult titles only, of course.

Sony appear to have made a grave error as porn wins tech wars. While people are still buying the stuff on disc (despite the abundance of porn on the web) then any home entertainment format or disc producer needs to embrace this not-so-niche market or handicap themselves severely.