Mercenary Pictures will cease distribution of VHS as of its titles streeting in January.
Mercenary cites consumer demand and the exorbitant costs of printing box covers for the video cassettes as reasons for abandoning the older format.
"Adult consumers are no longer interested in watching their titles on tape and it's no longer profitable for us to continue duplication of our productions on VHS," Mercenary owner Lexington Steele said. "Mercenary welcomes this shift, because our titles are best represented on the DVD format. Our consumers can watch our titles in crystal-clear picture quality, with extras shot exclusively for that title and their hundredth experience watching a Mercenary title will be the same as the first. In fact, with all the time and effort we put into authoring and creating all the content for a disc, we call them Super DVDs."
Mercenary's titles to be released in January are SuperWhores 6, to hit store shelves on Jan. 12, IronHead 7, to street on Jan. 19, and Black Reign 8, on Jan. 26.
