Since we've heard more times than we care to think about that porn drives our new technological age, this new Sony surge may bring the debate back to life. If the leading tech nation's leading studios start churning out Blu-Ray'd J-porn by the truckloads, will American studios be forced to follow suit? Will the battle re-ignite in time to save Sony's struggling format? Will we ever throw away our cherished VHS copy of "Emmanuelle in Bangkok"? We eagerly await the answers.

· Japanese Porn Industry Embraces Blu-Ray Disc (pcworld.com)
· Image swiped from Gizmodo

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It may seem like a dream come true to some people (you know who you are), but the advent of high definition porn is not without its own particular set of problems that may give even the most enthusiastic smut fan cause for concern: The New York Times explores some of the more unsavory issues of the new medium in an in-depth and amusing article that discusses its impact upon some of the adult industry's biggest stars like Jesse Jane, who is planning on getting plastic surgery to correct the appearance of her boob job scars which are suddenly a lot more visible in the hi-def format; and Savanna Samson, whose recent issues involved an unfortunately placed pimple which no amount of makeup or powder could help conceal. (Her solution? Try another position where the camera wasn't as up in her less-than-unblemished business.) All of which perfectly illustrates that old adage: be careful what you wish for. (Unless you're a boob job scar or zit fetishist, in which case it looks like you have a lot to look forward to.)

· "In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real" (nytimes.com)

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The director John Waters once noted that the sole reason for the success of the VHS was because people were too embarassed to jerk off in dirty movie theaters: as porn goes, so goes the rest of the technological landscape. With the advent of the release of the first* HD-DVD format stroke video by Japanese company GLAY'z (whom you may remember from their groundbreaking work in the much-hyped but ultimately doomed arena of UMD porn a while back), can we expect to see the phenomenon of Blu-Ray smut be obsolete before it even arrives? Only time will tell for sure; in the meantime, expect GLAY'z to bring various glistening folds and bikini wax stubble to your screen in more vivid detail than you ever thought possible.

· "First Ever Adult HD-DVD Arrives in Japan" (Gizmodo)
· "Slave Room" ("Perfect Master Riko") (HD-DVD title info @ glayz.co.jp)

*Update You'll hopefully excuse us for forgetting the fact that the US's own Digital Playground was already all over the HD-DVD porn thing with the release of "Pirates" in HD-DVD format a while back. All those press releases do tend to pile up around here, you know. (Thanks for the reminder, everyone who wrote in. You know who you are.)

Update Thanks to yet another reader for explaining to us that while "Pirates" was released in WMV HD-DVD, "Slave Room" is indeed the first true HD-DVD porn title; you can read an explanation of the difference here. So we were right thr first time. We think.

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