Digital Playground influenced by PlayStation 3 owners looking for titles on Blu-ray.
01.08.2008 — Digital Playground, the pornography studio which recently said it would be
shipping Blu-ray discs despite initially
choosing HD DVD, has announced eight titles it will be releasing on Blu-ray in February.
The rollout deals another blow to the HD DVD camp, which recently lost key movie producer Warner Brothers to Blu-ray. Digital Playground now plans to support both formats “until there is a clear-cut winner,” according to company founder Joone, who spoke with CE Pro last month.
“Pirates,” the first Blu-ray title from Digital Playground, shipped on January 4 and will be available on January 11, the company says.
The next eight titles to be released are: “Island Fever 4,” “Babysitters,” “Island Fever 3,” “Jack’s Teen America 3,” “Jesse Jane: Sexual Freak,” “Hush,” “Contract Star” and “Jesse Jane in Pink.”
Joone says that he was influenced by PlayStation 3 owners asking when their content would be available on Blu-ray.
“A lot of people were emailing that bought a PlayStation and they were basically saying, ‘When are you guys going to release Blu-ray?’ They really have no preference in format yet because it’s so new. When it comes down to image quality, there is no difference between the two,” he told CE Pro last month.
I guess it’s not just the high-end home theater products that PS3 owners are interested in.
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This Christmas I installed five times the gaming centers I did the previous years 60% PS3, 20% XBOX360, and the rest were a mix of others including two Golf simulators. In all but one PS3 system the deciding reason to use it was the Blue-ray. The few 360’s I put in still went with a standalone Blue-ray player. That tells me the PS3 has a lot to do with the success of the format, and the fact that the 360 only has external HD DVD it’s no wonder im seeing so many PS3 and Blue-ray systems.