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The fact that scenes are released on DVD first and then VOD is also retarded.




What the studios should do, is allow their new releases to run on VoD for about a month before the title gets released on DVD. That way they can try to advertise the title, and build up some interest in it, before selling physical copies. This could also be a good way to gauge whether a title will do well, or not, and could even save money on replication... if a title does poorly on VoD, you press less copies, and therefore save money on 1,000 pieces of a shitty title that will just end up sitting in the warehouse.



You're both absolutely right...VOD should be viewed as the ultimate R&D tool for producers. Providing that scenes are categorised as accurately and exhaustively as possible (see my previous post in one of the Porn Economics threads), then a producer can get real-time who/what's hot and who/what's not info at their fingertips.

As I've said before, I see the VOD-dominant era being almost completely fan interactive...if 100,000 fans are willing to pony up $10-20 to see the latest reality TV reject or non-hardcore centerfold girl get fucked on screen, then that enables the prospective producer to make them an offer they can't refuse.

I can envisage a business model which nobody has even touched on yet, but I'm not going to give it utterance here...let's just say that tomorrow's porn will be about what/who the paying fan wants to see (i.e., the ones prepared to put their money where their mouth is), not what/who non-paying pirates want to see, or what/who producers and directors think the fans want to see.

My question is: Who is ready to become the Dell of Porn?

However, that said, I don't quite see the logic in the downturn in DVD sales being due solely to free 30 sec. clips...why is nobody talking about (or, more importantly, doing something about) online piracy? When people can download an entire DVD or the key 'dealmaker' scene (you know...Flavour of the Month starlet's first boy-girl/anal/IR/DP scene!) for free, that's when they don't buy or rent the DVD (or even buy the VOD).

The key line for me in the recent AVN report about DVD sales being in decline was that web porn sales were not expanding at a rate to make up for the decline in DVD porn sales. Does this not strike anyone else as strange? Where have all of these customers gone?

My contention is that these customers haven't gone anywhere, they've just discovered a way to get their porn without paying for it, and they'll continue to do so as long as they're able to. Meanwhile, the adult industry brain trust seems content to fiddle whilst Rome burns, although given recent revelations about AVN and AdBrite/Pirate Bay, is anyone surprised?