Digital Sin is offering a free high definition video sampler to distributors, making it the first such product for play on new HD-DVD players.
“We wanted to show our customers what the future is going to look like,” said Scott Taylor, Digital Sin president.
The free HD sampler is available free to customers within two weeks and features two full scenes of hardcore action.
“Our plans are to support the current HD technology as well as Blu-Ray when it becomes available. I believe it is up to our customers to decide on a prevailing format similar to the VHS versus Beta war of long ago,” Taylor said.
“It seems foolish to support one or the other so early in the game when it is ultimately consumer demand that will dictate the future.”
Already, Digital Sin has shot more than 100 titles in high definition and is now ready to begin distributing in HD.
The company plans to begin shipping titles in HD-DVD when Toshiba begins shipping its new HD-DVD players later this year.
“We want to be the first to offer adult products for them,” Taylor said.
At issue is the ongoing concern over the future of digital recordings which pit competing high definition video formats, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, which are supported by various segments of the mainstream entertainment business as well as those in the adult industry.
The Sony-backed Blu-Ray system is a recordable DVD format that uses blue and violet lasers on disks that can hold up to 27 gigabites of memory, compared to regular DVD disks which hold 4.7 GBs and to HD DVD disks which hold 15 GBs.
HD-DVD is another recordable format backed by Sanyo, Toshiba, Microsoft and others, which is also receiving support by Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., among others.
