You’re probably right about the Glyph. The problem with Blu-Ray is several fold, it’s just not as ubiquitous as DVD and never will be. Home video’s heyday is long, long gone.

I just don’t know what can be done. The good talent scattered like rats from a sinking ship once the money train stopped. Porn thrived for 30 years by charging a premium for it’s content(cable, hotel PPV, DVD’s used to be $35, etc.), and now it’s free.

I’m just repeating the obvious. Until porn stops being free there’s nothing that can be done.

@schlermy
It is something to keep an eye on, but the odds of the Avegant Glyph Mobile Theater becoming a porn-viewing forum are miniscule.

Most have trouble masturbating and chewing gum at the same time. Wearing a headset to do so wouldn’t help. Also, people already bought Blu-Ray players and new televisions. Selling to the minority that purchases that for 500 bucks wouldn’t be economically viable. That’s a loooong way off.

Mainstream films are doing great on Blu-Ray, but porn isn’t. A lot of porn DVD’s look like garbage on an HD TV of around 50 inches or more. I can watch a mainstream flick from 10 years earlier and it looks better. Most people are buying televisions that large too. DVD’s should be phased-out and Blu-Rays should take over for porn. Or offer a combo-pack. A double-layer Blu-Ray disc holds 50GB compared to the 9 or so that a DVD holds. That would save studios from making double discs. There were like 2 studios offering a combo-pack, but others have no problem releasing double-disc sets for a DVD. I don’t get that.

People will pay for porn..when it’s high quality on a new medium. DVD’s are dead, Blu-Ray really never caught on. Of course, this is all because you’re right, there’s free porn all over the internet.

Here’s a new, upcoming medium: The Avegant Glyph Mobile Theater. Similar to the Oculus Rift but for mobile video only, not video games. An innovative/enterprising person or company could produce porn for this device and it could be fantastic. Of course, the #1 Priority is to LOCK IT DOWN to prevent any possibility of piracy.

Could be a game changer.

There is an old saying, “You get what you pay for.” Its true in any business, porn is no exception.
The porn industry was NEVER worth as much as was claimed. The 13billion, 15billion dollar figures were simply made up out of thin air. Repeat it over and over and over again and people eventually begin to believe it.
The vast majority of the millions of people watching free porn were never porn customers. They werent buying it before the internet revolution bought us all the free porn,,,and after watching it for free for years now they are never going to pay for it, especially the crap that is being produced today.

Agree with sclermy, theres far less money than ten years ago, and ten years ago there was far less money than the industry would like you to believe.

Porn had it good for a long time. For 30 years, from the early 70’s to the mid 2000’s it was one of the very few recession proof industries.

Now it’s just shit. Some new medium/technology is the only way the quality will rise.

@Karmafan

I would also say that there are too many skeezy girls and the ones you listed also come to mind.

However, I wouldn’t drop a dime on Lucie Wilde, Shae Summers, or Sensual Jane. It just comes down to opinion. There are those that loved Annette Haven and hate everything out now. People loved Jenna Jameson. I never saw it. I never saw Alexis Ford, Belladonna, or Brooklyn Lee as performers that stood out among the rest. Amen to them for their success though. Hopefully they properly banked that income. “Raising the bar” comes down to opinion.

I would say change the content. There is this power-fucking going on now. It is hard to find a normal blowjob. It seems that every film contains sloppy gagging oral scenes and the sex is like jack hammering. As a result every scene looks the same.

One cannot simply shoot sex and expect it to sell. Manuel Ferrara power-porking a hole while moaning “ohyeahohyeahohyeah ooooooh, ohyeahohoyeahohyeah…” is not appealing. If him and Sasha Grey knew how to shut up then they would have a better filmography.

Some people like that though.

Once again, it all comes down to opinion.

As for the original post by Mike South:
You don’t take a non-paying porn consumer and make them one. The same goes for music and mainstream films. Even if you provide the hottest girls you won’t get the freeloaders to pay unless you put out special items. Sadly, the physical content such as DVD’s and Blu-ray that are being released aren’t something I would buy. Not for that price at least. I’m a paying consumer too. I’ve never joined a site. I’m not going to pay to see content I don’t own for that price and unless I can watch a Netflix-type system with a ton of quality productions like the ones I can see on Netflix for 8 bucks a month then I won’t pay. Porn will charge me like 30 a month and give me shit. That won’t fly.

It isn’t as simple as picking out “stars” and if it was then porn would have had much more stars every era. One does not simply get prettier girls and make more money. It is a start though.