HD-DVD Porn Arrives

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.

Previously: Hot Blu-Ray Action, DVD: "Teradise Island", PSP Pornwatch: GLAY'z Videos