Sony Corporation of Japan is offering more support for porn movie releases in Blu Ray format. HD-DVD won over the US porn industry with it's cheap cost and ease-of-use. The US industry chose HD-DVD over Blu Ray. This is not surprising as Sony and The Walt Disney Company objected to pornography. Disney does not want to have any association with companies working to copy porn movies onto a Blu Ray platform.
In Japan due to adult-related contracts Japanese companies can't press Blu Ray disks. So the japanese companies contract out to a Taiwanese company which uses a Sony pressing machine to create Blu Ray disks.
Sony says that it's policy of not allowing adult films to be converted into Blu Ray has not changed. However, Sony does provide technical support for users of it's pressing machines, regardless of the industry in which they operate.
There is currently a format war between Sony's standard Blu-Ray and the competing standard HD-DVD. The porn industry is usually the first to innovate and Japan's adaption of the Blu Ray standard may help Sony win the war of formats.
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