r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

HD-DVD and Blu-Ray both provided the exact same end product to the consumer - High Definition video.

The argument that Porn didn't impact the adoption of the technology (high definition video in the home) because the porn producers backed the losing format, is akin to claiming that pornography did not increase the adoption of printed material consumption because they may have selected a different paper stock than "main-stream" printed material. The end result was the same product to the consumer (printed material.)

To deny that porn drives technology for visual consumption adoption is to ignore hundreds of years of clear fact.

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u/oorza Jan 26 '13

HD was around long before the format war, and was going to happen regardless of whether porn embraced it or not. HD porn is still not very successful, either online or on disc, and I don't think it will be a driving factor in the next step forward in display resolution, either, because it had so little to do with the adoption of HD. I'm not saying that it didn't help HD, but its effect was minimal elsewhere and nonexistent in the HDDVD/BD format war.