As we all know the Adult DVD Film Industry has driven the channels of delivery that the mainstream Film Industry have followed. If you don’t know they adopted cinema, VHS, DVD, Internet and DVD Extras well before the mainstream Film Industry did. It’s not to say that they were the force behind the mainstream industry’s decision, but they certainly helped pioneer that direction and prove the Business model.
Now, not only are they adopting High Definition early but they’ve just started a full Internet model of download, burn and own movies. Interestingly the sway within the Adult Film Industry also seems to be towards Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. Analysts agree that both directions are the way the whole Film Industry is heading.
Starting Monday, Vivid Entertainment says it will sell its adult films through the online movie service CinemaNow, allowing buyers to burn DVDs that will play on any screen, not just a computer……Ron Wagner, director of IT operations at E! Entertainment Television said his company has already chosen the Blu-ray Disc format, in large part because of talk in the porn industry preferring it to HD-DVD.
There’s some interesting points raised in the two articles, but the overall message is that the Adult Film Industry is heading towards Adult Blu-ray Movies and the mainstream Film Industry is keeping a close eye on them with some studios starting to follow.
The download to own model is now live and running, and the word from analysts is that the mainstream Film Industry is going to watch them iron out the bugs and see how the model works before taking more steps in that direction from the traditional delivery method.