AVN IMterview : Blu - Ray vs. HD - DVD
You ask and we render . Today we talked to Kathee Brewer , former technology editor for theAdult Video Newsabout the grownup industry and the format wars . take on for her take on this sticky situation .
Gizmodo : Ok . Well , tell us about your heartbeat at AVN .
Gizmodo : And do you hombre have all kind of sexy parties ?
Kathee : I was the technology editor for many year ( about 5 ) , and now I ’m “ editor at enceinte ”
Kathee : sexy parties ? I wish ! lol
Kathee : it ’s very slow around the offices , actually
Kathee : except for the occasional porn babe parading through on her manner to an consultation
Gizmodo : Well , they ’re tell that where the adult industry goes , the technical school industry follows . So rent ’s discuss next gen DVD .
Gizmodo : Have you gotten a chance to see them both ?
Kathee : I have catch HD - DVD merchandise
Kathee : Blu - re is a bit trickier for the grownup industriousness , because Sony is proprietary about it
Kathee : there are a couple of products emerging that allow HD - videodisc authoring , though
Gizmodo : Huh
Gizmodo : so you ’re saying that Sony is function to shoot itself in the animal foot by being closed ? Is that accurate ?
Gizmodo : Or is it a “ hold off and see ” sorting of matter ?
Kathee : apparently so
Kathee : on the shot in the foot thing
Gizmodo : Poor sony .
Kathee : pretty much
Kathee : one company , Hi - Deff XXX , has been beta - testing authoring programs
Gizmodo : See , I was under the impression that Blu - ray had great studio and technical school ship’s company backing .
Kathee : and has released subject in that format , I retrieve
Kathee : it does , in the mainstream !
Gizmodo : hrm
Gizmodo : so would you say that the grownup industry is as authoritative as it used to be in this matter ?
Kathee : but apparently the ship’s company that are run to be able to double merchandise on Blu - ray discs are going to be so busy working with mainstream companies that they wo n’t have a lot of clip left to squeeze adult intersection onto their lines
Kathee : if the adult industriousness can figure out a direction to make an end - streamlet , it will — so I do intend it ’s still important to the adoption of the applied science
Kathee : most studios seem to be take in a “ whichever mode the ball falls is the direction we ’ll go ” approach
Gizmodo : so which comes first , the HD content wimp or the adult egg ?
Kathee : the ones I ’ve babble out to all say they ’ve been spud in HD for quite some time now , so it ’s just a thing of encode the content for one format or the other ( or both ) and have it duplicated
Gizmodo : will they wait to see who makes out the best before eject subject ?
Gizmodo : or do they intend to release in both camps ?
Kathee : some will release in both camps , at least until one or the other total out on top
Kathee : and some also are looking at a third minor entrant in the space , too
Gizmodo : ? ? ?
Gizmodo : which one ?
Gizmodo : on - line distribution ?
Kathee : just a sec — I want to look up the name of the party
Kathee : New Medium Enterprises ’ Versatile Multilayer Disc
Kathee : it sort of snuck onto the aspect at CeBit in March
Gizmodo : i commemorate that , i suppose .
Gizmodo : not quite DVD
Kathee : not quite
Gizmodo : so in your expert opinion , what do you call up will happen ?
Kathee : but one of the thing about the grownup industry is that if something looks like it might catch some tending , the industry will take it seriously and investigate it
Gizmodo : so they can merely move faster than everyone else
Gizmodo : if blu - re lead off , they ’ll follow it .
Gizmodo : if hd - dvd accept off , they ’ll follow that .
Kathee : “ they ” being the grownup diligence , yes
Gizmodo : yes
Kathee : exactly
Gizmodo : how will that effect the grocery store , do you suspect ?
Kathee : and you ’ll plausibly see at least some message coming out in both formats , at least for a while
Kathee : adult is an early adoptive parent of any raw engineering science , because it can be
Gizmodo : have you seen any peculiar – errrr – features ?
Kathee : the diligence has the money to invest in raw applied science and render them out — “ show ” them , if you will
Gizmodo : coming out with HD ?
Kathee : grownup studios are exceptionally fond of producing “ DVD extras ”
Kathee : and most have stockpiles of that kind of matter just lying around
Gizmodo : but these extras well be amazing , because then they might as well be just turning out DVDs
Kathee : it has n’t been used in the yesteryear because there was n’t room for it on standard videodisc , so it ’s “ new ” content as far as consumer are come to
Gizmodo : i opine our readership – I ’m a mormon , so I ’ve never seen erotica – might wish to see that angle feature they were design for DVDs .
Kathee : audience with stars , outtake , deleted vista
Kathee : you ’re a Mormon , and you ’re write about porn ?
Gizmodo : well , i ’m consider mormonism .
Kathee : lol
Gizmodo : i learn they have wonderful benefits .
Kathee : love those garments
Gizmodo : anyway , any advice to the bud porn purchasers ?
Gizmodo : should they get a Blu - ray or HD - DVD player right now ?
Gizmodo : or wait until things shake out ?
Kathee : I can tell you I ’m waiting until things shake out a mo
Kathee : like every new engineering , the first models will be incredibly expensive
Kathee : and that probably is going to determine , to a large extent , which format takes off in the populace
Kathee : or with the world
Kathee : although it ’s not a planer , so … .
Gizmodo : planing machine ?
Kathee : pack off with the public vocalise like it ’s give way to contain them
Gizmodo : oh
Gizmodo : oh !
Gizmodo : like on lost
Kathee : sorry — it ’s early and I have n’t had enough coffee yet
Gizmodo : and half of the island will have blu - ray
Gizmodo : and half will have HD - DVD
Gizmodo : and then they ’ll start bolt down each other as offering to the videodisk immortal
Gizmodo : but what ’s in the hatch !
Kathee : uh … . the genuine mccoy ?
Gizmodo : the proverbial money shot .
Kathee : the money shot to stop all money shots
Gizmodo : ok . thanks so much . we ’ll keep our eyes disrobe .
Kathee : always beaming to be of very picayune help
Blu - rayhome amusement
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , skill , and culture word in your inbox day by day .
news program from the hereafter , delivered to your nowadays .
Please select your hope newssheet and defer your e-mail to advance your inbox .
