Democratisation of Media

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by LizAEBN

There are major differences in the industries, yes - but the similarities I cite are accurate. The mainstream entertainment complexes are fighting the same battles against piracy the adult industry is.

The primary difference (other than the content itself) is how that content is consumed: I know very few people who watch the same skin flick over and over and over again as they will listen to a CD repeatedly or watch a summer blockbuster. In general, the porn consumer wants to get his nut to something different each time - we often say the fantasy is the selling point, and a major part of the fantasy is the variety available in content that isn't available in our shoppers' lives. As such, a PPM opportunity makes sense - s/he's not having to pay for the scenes that are filler, and can filter viewing options to best meet the needs of the moment.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm going to listen to Zeppelin 2 a helluva lot more than I'm going to watch Behind The Green Door (and I come back to the other thread about story line, here as well). So why would I pay for a whole fuck flick that I may - at most - watch once? If I want to do that, I certainly can - I can go to my neighborhood smut shop and pick up a copy of the DVD or I can download the whole film via AEBN, if that's what tickles my pickle. But for years, I couldn't RENT a stroke film unless I wanted to leave my credit card and a ridiculous deposit with that creepy guy - and I had no choice but to buy it.

Mainstream shops had the same purchase prices, but could subsidise them through rentals - and I don't care if my boss pulls my financial statements and sees Blockbuster. I care a LOT, though, if I am Joe HighschoolTeacher, and I have a $150 deposit on hold ad Al's Stroke Shack. When VHS tapes came down in price, it was - in the past - about 8 months after the rental period had begun.

DVDs hit the market with an incredibly different pricing scheme, and as an industry, we weren't quite prepared for that.

So let's see...you're defending the pay per minute model? At the same time decrying the industry for not listening?
so, tell me, on this model, how much does one pay per minute for the 90 minute movie? About the same as what you pay to buy the DVD. And you're restricted to where you can watch it, and you certainly can't sell that non-DVD when you are done with it. And again, you are acutely aware of that ticking clock.

If it's just scenes they want, that may be why everyone is screaming about the free "tube sites." Let's face it....how do they know "what scene" they want, until after they watch it at least once? or spend their "minutes" searching through it?
If this were truly a selling tool, you would have a way to compile prefernces....say "all scenes with Tera Patrick, and her husband."
Then, I see some advantage to this model. And it's not a new concept....."mix tapes" have been popular since the audio cassette was introduced. People made it clear what they wanted. Look at apple's itunes.

And you've traded "giving your credit card to the creepy guy behind the counter" with "giving your credit card number to a company over the internet that you may not know where they are, who they are, or what they may do with your card." (Speaking in general , of course, as you were.)

NONE of my stores EVER took a deposit, and you had no embarrassment. You had a membership card, so we could assure you were over 18, and we had a back room. But it was "regular video store" not a "jack shack"

We had disney too.

As for adult film use, this may be a different consumption method between men and women.
Men have "collections" of porn, that they like to watch, and rewatch. They aren't watching for the story, in most cases. They like to re-experience the same porn, over and over again.

But hey, you go with that same model if it works for you.

As for the industry "not being ready for it," big surprise. I would refer you to the article I wrote about that 8 years ago, July 2001, in AVNOnline:

http://vrinnovations.com/Newslinks/m...nline72001.htm