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    Technology has more or less flowed with the proliferation of porn. VHS (over Betamax), bluray (over HD-DVD), online payments and other Internet features rose to prominence because pornographic content helped spearhead their adoption.

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      Even games. Artists and devs, specially 3d, are constantly improving their skills and tools to make better content. Not solely because of porn, but it helps to rush it. When you want to make it so that a certain viscous fluid or liquid dripping or flowing looks ultra realistic, you work to improve the tech behind its rendering. Then you share it and we get more realistic rendering for other games, for example. I’m trying to remember of a specific case of when a breakthrough for 3d rendering came directly from 3d hentai but I can’t find it. What’s also funny is that even game consoles from the 70s had porn games already

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      I will die on the hill that blu-ray won over HD-DVD purely because the PS3 could play blu-ray and the Xbox 360 couldn’t play either. Blu-ray players were crazy expensive when the PS3 came out, to the point that the PS3 was the cheapest blu-ray player when it came out.

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        I don’t think he was saying porn was the cause though, was he? If HDDVD had won, it still would have gotten porn on it as a demonstration of its victory.

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          It’s a common myth that porn is the reason for the victors of the various format wars, idk if he was saying that or just alluding to it.

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        Probably helped, but it definitely got accepted at a quicker rate because of porn.

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          Porn industries only chose blu-ray once it was already in the PS3. Out of all the HD-DVD players and blu-ray players on the planet combined at the end of the format war 10 out of 11 were PS3s. Also not to mention that almost everyone backed blu-ray and it was the objectively better format. It held 40% more information and was backed by the biggest media companies. On top of the fact blockbuster went blu-ray.

          Honestly it’s very tiresome that everyone says that porn did it when you can look at the facts and see that the war was won by blu-ray from the start and that most porn content was available on both formats for a long time, basically guaranteeing that it couldn’t have affected the outcome. Like I get that “haha porn funny” but it clearly wasn’t the deciding factor, and arguably not a factor at all. Like any cursory look into the history dispels the myth immediately which makes me wonder why everyone feels the need to parrot it as if it’s fact.

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      Also early home video recording equipment! (The precursors to which were developed by the military.)