Will Porn Decide the Latest Format War?
http://www.stereophile.com/news/011507pron/
Et fornøyelig lite stykke om formatkrigen ;-)
http://www.stereophile.com/news/011507pron/
Et fornøyelig lite stykke om formatkrigen ;-)
Why does the adult entertainment industry matter to high-minded audiophiles such as ourselves? It isn't because we embrace pornnor do we condemn it; we frankly don't much care what adults do with their spare time. It's because adult entertainment is an immense industry, one some analysts cite as being as big as Hollywood's box office receipts. (Eric Schlosser's 2003 book Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market estimated that pornography in the US, including videos, the Internet, live sex acts, and cable television, generates approximately $10 billion per year.)
No shit, Sherlock ?! Noe å tenke på for gjengen til Bill Gates?....statistic from the computer industry is that the average user will only spend about four minutes trying to master a program, unless porn is the reward, in which case the time limit goes up exponentially.
Therefore, we see the question as being relatively simple. Who do we trust to predict the winner of the format war: Is it the company that blew its superior and first-to-market Betamax lead; the company that owned the portable player market at one point, only to cede the advantage to a computer company because it stuck to its proprietary digital format guns; the company that developed bu has apparently abandoned a technically superior successor to the compact discor the entrepreneurs that took an industry out of the back alleys and into the mainstream (and what's more mainstream than putting Jenna Jameson onto The New York Times's bestseller list)?