Playboy is skipping Blu-Ray because they are horribly cash poor.
As a company they could more easily transfer old content in NTSC to internet downloads than try and compensate in the HD world. Blu-Ray would require too much production quality on new shoots for HD.
Sorry, but Playboy is in trouble, if they can't even do Blu-Ray, profits are down, and now Hefner can't even throw parties at the mansion unless other people rent it out and pay for it themselves.
It's sad to see playboy in this trouble, it has been mismanaged for years by Christie Hefner, instead of reinvesting and bringing the brand to new heights, instead they just do less each year and continue to decline. playboy tv channel is a great example of why.... they just keep repurposing the same horrible programming, the only new programming is xxx movies, which are so horribly censored people don't want to buy the channel.
Playboy has issues, Blu-Ray can't be judged by their cheapness.
When you consider that most of the money made from Porn nowadays is gained from the Internet it makes since to just bypass a media that will cost you $25,000+ just to put your hand on the door nob, heheh I said nob. Very few porn companies have released much of anything on Blu-ray for this reason, they are part of an industry which produces and distributes at the cheapest possible costs, and yet pays their "actors and actresses" fees which would make a TV star blush just because they know that the stars of their films are what sell the product.
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Playboy is skipping Blu-Ray because they are horribly cash poor.
As a company they could more easily transfer old content in NTSC to internet downloads than try and compensate in the HD world. Blu-Ray would require too much production quality on new shoots for HD.
Sorry, but Playboy is in trouble, if they can't even do Blu-Ray, profits are down, and now Hefner can't even throw parties at the mansion unless other people rent it out and pay for it themselves.
It's sad to see playboy in this trouble, it has been mismanaged for years by Christie Hefner, instead of reinvesting and bringing the brand to new heights, instead they just do less each year and continue to decline. playboy tv channel is a great example of why.... they just keep repurposing the same horrible programming, the only new programming is xxx movies, which are so horribly censored people don't want to buy the channel.
Playboy has issues, Blu-Ray can't be judged by their cheapness.
When you consider that most of the money made from Porn nowadays is gained from the Internet it makes since to just bypass a media that will cost you $25,000+ just to put your hand on the door nob, heheh I said nob. Very few porn companies have released much of anything on Blu-ray for this reason, they are part of an industry which produces and distributes at the cheapest possible costs, and yet pays their "actors and actresses" fees which would make a TV star blush just because they know that the stars of their films are what sell the product.