Lyris
18-04-2006, 3:57 PM
Hey everyone
My brother pointed me out this thread over at Mobius forum: http://s8.invisionfree.com/MHVF/index.php?showtopic=5203
Basically in it, the head of Synapse Films, who distribute niche content like giallos (a kind of Italian horror movie), says something which disturbs me a lot:
When we met with Sony to discuss titles and told them about THRILLER and THE IMAGE and that we wanted to do BLU-RAY discs of those two titles, they pretty much told us they WOULDN'T do them because of their extreme adult content! They were like "umm... well... we don't know if we can do that sort of thing." That attitude may just outright kill the BLU-RAY format. People want adult films... it's a hundreds of millions of dollars a year business... and HD-DVD will have them.
If that's true then Sony have converted me over to supporting HD-DVD. I don't watch giallos myself and I have no interest in watching HD porn (honest ;) ) but the fact that someone else would be deciding what I was allowed to watch would break the deal.
Does anyone know anything more about this? Since when were Sony allowed to give the go ahead for what was and wasn't put out on Blu-Ray?
Wasn't Sony being prudish one of the factors in VHS winning over Beta? Would they really be so stupid as to make this mistake a second time?
Does anyone know any more about this? I don't want to buy into some sort of format looked over by prudes that dictate what I can and can't watch. The MPAA on their own is bad enough.
My brother pointed me out this thread over at Mobius forum: http://s8.invisionfree.com/MHVF/index.php?showtopic=5203
Basically in it, the head of Synapse Films, who distribute niche content like giallos (a kind of Italian horror movie), says something which disturbs me a lot:
When we met with Sony to discuss titles and told them about THRILLER and THE IMAGE and that we wanted to do BLU-RAY discs of those two titles, they pretty much told us they WOULDN'T do them because of their extreme adult content! They were like "umm... well... we don't know if we can do that sort of thing." That attitude may just outright kill the BLU-RAY format. People want adult films... it's a hundreds of millions of dollars a year business... and HD-DVD will have them.
If that's true then Sony have converted me over to supporting HD-DVD. I don't watch giallos myself and I have no interest in watching HD porn (honest ;) ) but the fact that someone else would be deciding what I was allowed to watch would break the deal.
Does anyone know anything more about this? Since when were Sony allowed to give the go ahead for what was and wasn't put out on Blu-Ray?
Wasn't Sony being prudish one of the factors in VHS winning over Beta? Would they really be so stupid as to make this mistake a second time?
Does anyone know any more about this? I don't want to buy into some sort of format looked over by prudes that dictate what I can and can't watch. The MPAA on their own is bad enough.