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- EvilDr.X, on 10/12/2007, -5/+227I agree. There should be way more porn stars here.
- antidentite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+180“The biggest problem is razor burn,” said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director.
Maybe porn stars need to join digg.
http://digg.com/gadgets/Learn_to_shave_the_correct_way_--_avoiding_razor_burn_etc. - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -5/+157Many porn "actresses" are such hideously deformed wretches that VCD is too much detail.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -17/+148Looks like we have a virgin.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+134"people with serious vanity issues"
What about the people who go around bragging about the size of their TV? - Detritus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+128I just got a 71" Samsung 1080p and the first thing I noticed was all the details in people's faces and a booger up this one dude's nostril. I think this is really a good thing, with all the beautiful people out of soft-focus and low res, people with serious vanity issues will see that even the beautiful people have flaws. We shouldn't avoid that, we should embrace it and accept ourselves with our flaws.
- cirelo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+113This would be the same thing I went though when I first got glasses. I was near sided and though most of the girls back in high school were pretty cute. After getting glasses to correct my vision my opinion of everyone changed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+96I would think Herpes is a bigger problem.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -5/+94and this is worse than real sex HOW???
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+86I was far sided growing up. Everything looked like a Gary Larson cartoon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+85You can buy porn? Since when?!
- Shookit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+79He's not even kidding. There is actual, 4% milkfat cottage cheese on her butt.
- tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+79you are barking up the wrong tree.
Everyone here downloads their porn. No one here is running out and buying hd-dvd porn. - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -16/+92NYT gives full-screen modal ads even when you register. Nice.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 — The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes.
Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.
They have discovered that the technology is sometimes not so sexy. The high-definition format is accentuating imperfections in the actors — from a little extra cellulite on a leg to wrinkles around the eyes.
Hollywood is dealing with similar problems, but they are more pronounced for pornographers, who rely on close-ups and who, because of their quick adoption of the new format, are facing the issue more immediately than mainstream entertainment companies.
Producers are taking steps to hide the imperfections. Some shots are lit differently, while some actors simply are not shot at certain angles, or are getting cosmetic surgery, or seeking expert grooming.
“The biggest problem is razor burn,” said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director.
Ms. Daniels is also a skeptic. “I’m not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their porn in HD,” she said.
The technology’s advocates counter that high definition, by making things clearer and crisper, lets viewers feel as close to the action as possible.
“It puts you in the room,” said the director known as Robby D., whose films include “Sexual Freak.”
The pornographers’ progress with HD may also be somewhat slowed by Sony, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray high-definition disc format. Sony said last week that, in keeping with a longstanding policy, it would not mass-produce pornographic videos on behalf of the movie makers.
The decision has forced pornographers to use the competing HD-DVD format or, in some cases, to find companies other than Sony that can manufacture copies of Blu-ray movies.
The movie makers assert that it is shortsighted of Sony to snub them, given how pornography helps technologies spread.
“When you’re introducing a new format, it would seem like the adult guys can help,” said Steven Hirsch, co-chief executive officer of Vivid Entertainment Group, a big player in the industry. Mr. Hirsch added that high definition, regardless of format, “is the future.”
Despite the challenges, pornographers — who distributed some 7,000 new movies on DVD last year and sold discs worth $3.6 billion in the United States — are rapidly moving to high-definition.
One major company, Digital Playground, plans to release its first four HD-DVD titles this month, and plans four new ones each month. In March, Vivid plans to release “Debbie Does Dallas ... Again,” its first feature for both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
Vivid, like Digital Playground, has been shooting with high-definition cameras for two years to build up a catalog of high-definition movies. Both studios have released the movies in standard definition but plan to make the high-definition versions available as compatible disc players and televisions become more popular.
The studios said their experience using the technology gives them an advantage in understanding how to cope with the mixed blessing of hypercrisp images. Their techniques include using postproduction tools that let them digitally soften the actors’ skin tone.
“It takes away the blemishes and the pits and harshness and makes it look like they have baby skin,” said the director known as Joone, who made “Pirates,” one of the industry’s top-selling videos. It will be available this month in high-definition.
Joone does not use a last name, but he does use a number of techniques to keep his films blemish-free. They include giving out lifestyle tips.
“I tell the girls to work out more, cut down on the carbs, hit the treadmill,” he said.
Within the industry, the issue seems to have created a difference in perspective that cuts roughly along gender lines. Some male actors have begun using makeup to mitigate wrinkles or facial flaws, but generally they, and the male directors, are less worried about high-definition’s glare and more enamored of the technology.
Ms. Daniels said that attitude was just so typical of men.
“Men are all about outdoing each other, being up with the times, being cool, having the latest technology,” she said. “They’re willing to sacrifice our vanity and imperfections to beat each other” to high-definition, she said.
Other female actors say they generally like working with high-definition — except for the cosmetic-surgery part.
Jesse Jane, one of the industry’s biggest stars, plans to go under the knife next month to deal with one side effect of high-definition. The images are so clear that Ms. Jane’s breast implants, from an operation six years ago, can be seen bulging oddly on screen.
“I’m having my breasts redone because of HD,” she said.
The stretch marks on Ms. Jane from seven years ago when she gave birth to her son are also more apparent. But she deals with those blemishes in a simpler way: by liberal use of tanning spray.
Still, Ms. Jane likes the technology, as does her close friend Kirsten Price, 25, who appeared in “Manhunters” and “Just Like That.”
“HD is great because people want to see how people really look,” Ms. Price said. “People just want to see what’s real.”
Ms. Price is allowing them to do so, mostly. She had laser treatments to diminish tiny purple veins on her thighs that weren’t visible to viewers before.
“You can see things you cannot see with the naked eye. You see skin blemishes; you see cottage cheese,” said Robbie D. “But some cellulite is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s kind of sexy.”
The technology makes the experience more intimate, he said. “People look to adult movies for personal contact, and yet they’re still not getting it. HD lets them see a little bit more of the girl.”
That’s not necessarily good, said Savanna Samson, an actress who last December directed her first movie, “Any Way You Want Me.” During a scene in which she played a desperate housewife, she ran into a problem: the high-definition camera revealed she had a tiny ill-placed pimple.
“We kept stopping and trying to hide it. We put on makeup and powder, but there was no way,” Ms. Samson said. Finally, they tried another approach: “We just changed positions,” she said. - LucerinRed, on 10/12/2007, -8/+72I don't like shaven women, When I was a kid, I had a cat with lukemia, and ever since then bald pussy just makes me cry. I like a woman that looks like she has Bob Ross in a leg lock
- lazyrussian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57This also happened in the 30's when movies switched to sound. Some actors had such hideous voices that they lost their jobs.
- ericrous, on 10/12/2007, -5/+57I met a real-life girl with no imperfections once. But then I got to know her and she turned out to be a liquid-metal cyborg from the future sent back to kill some whiny punk. The relationship went downhill from there. The sex was great, and she was totally hot. But all the overblown car chases, gun battles, and explosions started to really annoy me after a while.
-Eric - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53How is HD porn somehow more high-res than what you see in real life with your eyes? I guess in real life at least you have dimmer switches....
- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51I think Icepick is right - albeit possibly a virgin. If you find a girl who - in real life - doesn't have ANYTHING wrong with her skin or her figure, I mean not one pimple or patch of differently-colored skin, then please let me know because THAT's truly the anomaly.
Minor imperfections are just part of being human, now they have to learn to hide them to keep up the fake image of a perfect woman they've been pushing on people so long.
Anyways, my new favorite quote has to be “I'm having my breasts redone because of HD” - Itkovian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Or wax.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Amateur porn
Problem solved - Aleks, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40I still wouldn't mind seeing Aria Giovanni in 1080p :)
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+41As Kevin and Alex put it, when the porn industry signed on with HD-DVD, that was the definitive end of Blu-Ray.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32500+?
Try 5000+... - GTPilot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34ok, time to move on to smellivision technology then.
- Masna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31The irony is overwhelming.
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -12/+40you can spank it to a booger if you like. i'm staying with SD and even sub-sd porn. it's about fantasy, no reality.
- jokeyjon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31She had a big mole? One of those animal movies, I take it?
- Arctirus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33Yes you would. Have you ever seen non-retouched photos of her? Her ass is covered in cottage cheese.
- dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Get ready for a lot more "dream sequences" in porn movies..with a soft blur effect.
- pixelate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27hey, i need to bake some cookies for a thing tomorrow. could you call your buddy and have him google me a baking website?
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Hey! Britney Spears is NOT "lesser-known"!
- andreo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30That's life. If you want perfect, or close to it, watch 18 year olds.
If I had to document the average bodies of women through my sex life it would look something like this:
High School: Near perfect. No stretch mark, a birth mark here and there, some with moderate pubic hair others with light growth (no shaving wasn't big in the 80's)
College: Still more birth marks here and there, some razor bumps, still close to perfect.
Mid 20's: "Oh, I see you've had kids, and it was a C Section"
30's: "Oh, I see you've lost lots of weight" "Oh I see you've had kids / operation / C section"
Mid 30's: "So... Um... Do you mind if I ask what happened here?" And in some cases, thinking to myself. She wasn't very much into wearing bras. - vinnyvenus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25maybe porn industry need geeks with good video editing skills?
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24http://www.bugmenot.com
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22“HD is great because people want to see how people really look,”
Oh, so THAT'S why mainstream magazines are airbrushed to hell and back. - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I remember touring NBC Studios a few years ago, and they mentioned that the major hurdle to converting shows to HD was that many existing sets had to be completely torn down and rebuilt to stand up to the scrutiny of HD.
This was very obvious on some early HD sitcoms - 'Joey' for example - the set looked extremely fake and the lighting artificial.
I've had HD for a while, and the studios are definitely getting a lot better with makeup, lighting, and sets to compensate, but it cant be cheap, especially on a porn budget. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19HD-DVD Porn... The Look and Sound of (a little too) Perfect
- ylikone, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22adolf, they may seem like pre pubescent girls to you, but to me it means not getting a tons of pubic hair in your mouth. that's sick.
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18So woman must become even more "Perfect"?
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yeah, so the cellulite on jenna jameson's ass will only be visible when they're really close to her ass
- digital1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I preferred porn when it was scrambled.
- EzarKun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14what the?
some of those pics in some sites are near 720 res.
When u zoom in, you can see detailed "stuff".
A woman doesnt need to be super perfect to be sexy or beautiful.
A guy can goto the Adult Exibition(whatever that event is called), and see the real women is HD-HD-HD vision.
Is he gonna go and say, 'ewww, malformed boob!!' ?
No, he is still gonna go home and jack off to the image of the star imprinted into his retina.
How bad can Daniels be?
If her problem was really bad would the guy with the stick be probing her?
He would most likely rejecting her wont he? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Panasonic's new High Definition Camera with Vaseline Lens!
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12it's not that they couldn't digitally airbrush the films, it's that the filming costs would go way up (at least relative to how much they currently spend on filming pr0n now)
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You mean all chicks don't DP random guys in adult bookstores? DAMMIT!
- je12u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11...now when you watch the lesser known "actresses" you can actually see where thier c-section and bullet wound scars are!
- ElFredo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I feel a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of nerds cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
- sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12whats amazing is how well you can see crabs in high def..
No but i agree with the article... high def a bit too real and i know that sounds strange as a negative when it comes to sex. But i havent seen an hd porn that i liked.(er i only watched hd porn in preperation to have a valkid comment on this digg.... no really) - Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Great. That roast beef sandwich tucked between her legs is gonna look so much more enticing now that I can also clearly see all the moles, razor burn, and stretch marks. Go HD!
/sarcasm -
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