HD Comes on Strong
HD comes on strong at AVNThe Other Vegas Show XBox360 has killer app at lastBy Charlie Demerjian in Las Vegas: Saturday 07 January 2006, 18:26
WHILE COMPANIES waffle and debate how to screw consumers harder over high def video, the porn industry is doing HD now, with harder screwing on it, not with it. Several companies had HD titles here and there, but I only found one, Lurid, that was all HD.
Lurid specializes in HD porn, and they currently have 13 titles out and counting. There are a lot of problems with doing HD, and much of the industry is doing it basically wrong. It has come a long way from the state of affairs of last year, and HD cameras are much more available. The problem is that editing equipement is not, and most companies don’t have the expertise, money, or will to do it on their own. This leads to movies shot in HD, then downsampled to be edited on normal rez machines. It is then upsampled and burnt to DVD, giving you pretty awful quality.
Lurid on the other hand does everything start to finish in HD, giving you quality that I can’t use snappy saying about for fear of angering the moral minority, but think slogans for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Needless to say it is HD all the way through, shot in 1080i, and downsampled to 720P for production and print. They are shipped on two DVDs, one in standard def, the other with a WMVHD movie on it as a file. The next thing for them to tackle is the consumers, or dumb sheep as I like to call them. They see an HD sicker on something, and assume it just works. If they buy a plasma TV and it does HD, they assume that their DVD player will do it. Wrong. Lurid was giving away an XBox360 on their stand because it is one of the only consumer devices out there that can do HD movies at the consumer level. In the above picture, they are streaming smut from a MCE05 PC to an 360, and as you can clearly see from the pictures, the quality is great. You can see every little [not a chance that this will make it in, so I will censor it myself], and the donkey too. Without Microsoft and the XBox360 team, we would not have true high quality filth, thanks guys.
If trends hold, this year there are a few like Lurid at the beachhead of HD, and by AVN 2007, everyone will be there. While the big boys are making a lot of noise about standards fights, screwing consumers, and the like, porn is there now. You can buy it all day long, inexpensively and technically correct. Who is the leader again? ยต
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