Sony Supports Blu-Ray J-Porn

The adult entertainment industry always leads adoption of new video formats, from VHS to streaming. Sony realizes this, and now courts Japanese pornographers to support Blu-ray.

According to several producers at the recent Adult Treasure Expo 2007 in Chiba, Japan, Sony has begun offering extensive technical support to the domestic adult entertainment industry. Various restrictions exist on how discs can be replicated in Japan as well as the US, but a workaround has been engineered in which Taiwanese replicators have been granted licenses and equipment from Sony to press adult Blu-ray releases and send them back to Japan. Mass production is slated to begin in August.

American pornstars are split over the use of high-def formats: men like the coolness factor, women worry about stretch marks blown up to 1080p. Japanese female pornstars aren’t so prissy; perhaps they would make better high-def standard-bearers.