Any student of communications can tell you that p*rn blazes a path which all other media follow (even early naughty cave drawings may have been the precursor to written alphabets). VCRs and even the web itself were given a push by folks looking for easy, private access to adult programming.
The LA Times’ Dawn C. Chmielewski and Claire Hoffman have a piece today about adult film distributor Vivid, which will start selling downloadable-to-burn films via CinemaNow starting May 8. Unlike the rest of the, um, entertainment industry, Vivid will allow the DVDs burned to play on TV sets, something that mainstream Hollywood has avoided.
But, where p*rn goes, the rest of the business might follow.
Historically, the p*rn industry has adopted new technologies more nimbly than Hollywood. It embraced home video in the late 1970s, allowing people to bypass seedy theaters and watch the movies in their living rooms. Mainstream studios, by contrast, fought home video all the way to the Supreme Court before making it one of the most profitable pieces of their business.
Cynthia Brumfield at 8:00 AM|Comments(0)
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