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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I had the first right answer. It WAS the VCR.
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Start thinking guys and stop guessing. Anyone who was around any form of home entertainment in those days will know why there was no explosion in porn when the VCR came into being. It was a slow build up.
Seriously you guys need to use logic a lot more.
When VCR, Beta and VHS hits the domestic market. They were FUCKING expensive, very few films and definitely few porn ones.
The porn consumers into movies were geared up to 8 mm, or Super 8. The movie industry was geared up to producing movies on film. The retail was geared up to it. Switching was an expensive thing and the market was small because the sale of VCRs in the beginning was slow. They had to wait for the wife to want to see movies at home on tape.
Yes it did build and eventually it took off and was so good VHS won over Beta because of the films available on VHS. But it was slow and porn consumers did not all rush out and buy a VCR in a few years.
With rental it was much faster. Everyone by then had a VCR and one day a porn movie was $30 or a lot more to buy or $3 to $5 to rent. The take up was phenomenal.
Now go tell us I'm wrong and a million people went and bought a very expensive VCR so they could watch porn movies shot for the 8 mm film market in a matter of months. LOL
If we are to beat Tubes and Torrents we need to think with logic, throw off the thoughts that have held us back and think out of the box. It could be something simple like having mega sites that charge by the Gig downloaded, charge for the number of times visited, stores like content stores that sell packages of good content at low prices.
What will not work is dreaming Tubes will disappear and the 30 day recurring model is going to work like it use to. With or without Tubes and Torrents.
As for the Internet by the time we got broadband into most homes of people who would or could spend we were spending a fortune giving them free porn. And we are seeing clearly how fragile it all is.