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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
This is not about pushing new products, but development in an existing product. Tubes are older and established "culture". True HD is still at innovative level (therefor the potential), and it is not really about what people want, but what their investments in technology can do. Even users at places like YouTube welcomed their "HD", even if it is not true HD, didn't they? If, and when most, people have 100Mbit lines, 1080 screens - and creditcards, then they already asked for it.
I communicate with surfers myself, and some of them say that a paysite offering HD, and it's not really true HD, they are disappointed... sure, why not surf tubes instead then?? If you can't deliver what you promise, you will not gain much. You can't win by consider yourself beaten. Or "adapt". As I said, the tubes are well established, but if you want to compete, you need to think forward. Not at the past. You need to look at the potential. Hell, if you even deliver something like live shows with true HD, you have something that costly tube sites never can offer...
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Thinking that if it works on Youtube it will work in porn is flawed. HD needs good lighting, good looking models, good make up and because of the screen ratio it's essential to have shooters who know what they are doing. Otherwise you end up with a great view of the room. It suits the Playboy to Twistys end of the market. For Amateur, teens, Gonzo, MILF, mature and more it's not required and can bring down the quality of the porn.
But is goes further than that and this is the real problem. A bad porn scene shot with HD is still a bad porn scene, HD does not make it a good scene. HD is the cherryon the topof the cake for some, its not the cake.
Final proof. If HD was truly important to the porn consumer DVD sales would not be in free fall. A DVD can deliver 4.5 Gigs, you can put 2 discs in box and the level of quality is far better than what most sites offer and any Tube. But DVD sales are in free fall.
HD is like exclusive content, another benefit to sell to affiliates to drive more traffic to sites the customer is increasingly turning away.
But you are right about paysites delivering something Tubes can't. We need to supply live shows, with and without chat. Involving the members into the scenes and selling live 1-1 at a very affordable price. We have to do this on mass, not a few sites, so the customers know they are getting more than a membership to a site with 50 to 500 videos.
Live chat companies losing business need to think on a different level and supply this to the paysite business on mass. The customer needs to be thinking he can get live shows in any of the paysites he joins. It's not something we should keep as "exclusive" it's something that should be standard in paysites.
Bring those on Tubes who will spend money back to paysites and the Tubes lose their funding. Tubes are not paid for by people who want everything for free.