Porn Industry Warms Up to Blu-ray

More High-Tech XXX

Digital Playground continues to set the tech trends in the adult video arena. The company pioneered "interactive sex" for computer CDs ages ago, so you might expect great things in the ultra-interactive environment of high-def DVDs.

“Nobody’s doing as much interactivity as we are, even on regular [non-XXX] DVDs,” Joone says. “We have our own team in-house that does HD DVD authoring. We spend good R&D time developing techniques.”

He says the development of interactive content has been a little more challenging with the Blu-ray format. “A lot of advanced features are only supported in newer players. Until yesterday (Dec. 18), not even the PS3 supported Java, which is what most people are using to try to create interactivity.”

Even more interactivity is in the works from Digital Playground. “It’s just a matter of the manufacturer stabilizing the platform.”

Meanwhile, the production company is “moving on all fronts” to distribute its content to every device with a screen. It was, for example, the first company to create porn for the iPhone, but you can watch Digital Playground fare on virtually any cellphone.

Joone says that mobile porn is available in about 38 countries where “you’re just two clicks away on the handset.”

He adds, “In the U.S. it’s a little different because of regulations.”

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