The odd part of that statement being how much porn really relies on higher quality imagery to sell compared to what it can put out now. It’s a factor, but I would consider it a rather small one.

I also think the answer between the two formats is none of the above. Ultimately I think we are going to see people just download the content and then use things like disks, in whatever format that’s out, for pure archiving purposes. For everyday use a person needs not a whole lot of data storage, but yet terabyte hard drives are in stores now. Why? Because eventually people are simply doing to archive all of their media via the computer. mp3s are slowly replacing the CD. Any gaming system(PC, console) has ways to download games, demos, patches, etc. A number of movie places are letting people download movies. I think whoever wins this war won a war that they already lost.

I know that adult films are a multi million dollar industry but I was quite surprised — pleasantly so, I might add — that they are keeping up with the times and are actually on the cusp of new technologies.

One clarification, Mel. I think the adult industry is actually not just keeping up-to-date with technology, but they are a driver of technology themselves. Check out this dated article on Macworld.