Posts Tagged ‘DVD’

An Unexpected Apple Ally: Porn Industry to Drop Flash

Wolfgang Gruener in Business on June 28
 

It may seem that Steve Jobs is on a lonely crusade against Adobe’s Flash format with the rest of the industry simply waiting who this battle will turn out. While Adobe is rallying support for Flash, Apple receives support from a rather unexpected ally, the adult film industry. The founder of Digital Playground, one of the porn heavyweights in the U.S., told ConceivablyTech that it will abandon Flash as soon as the desktop browsers fully support HTML 5. We also learned that 3D is just not there yet and that online movie streaming is unlikely to replace Blu-ray discs anytime soon.

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Blu-ray Dominance in Home Entertainment Delayed

Daniel Bailey in Business on May 26
 


Blu-ray continues to miss the mark in consumer acceptance. Previous conservative estimates that Blu-ray would surpass the DVD as dominant home entertainment media are now revised as Strategy Analytics now expects Blu-ray to outsell the DVD in 2013.

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