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What tech do you think will rise? what gadgets would you like to see porn on and think will be consumed by our customers?Quote:
Originally Posted by desslock
I believe india and china will be huge markets - eventhough very restricted ones as china already is...
... gadetwise I could imagine porn getting more mobile and HDTV will be a huge revenue-stream for the offline-industry since new players will have to be bought (Blue-Ray or HD-DVD) and people want to enjoy the fruits of HDTV
I do not see any of that helping, Asian traffic is notoriously very bad, I can see people blocking that traffic before I see it bring in any big sales. And portable devices are not going to help porn much, unless ya want to play with your self in public that is. Portable content would really need to be PG and just mainly fun. :gaydays:
How'bout live chats on your cell-phone?
Maybe if its not really porn, people are not going to want to look at porn in public, well a few will, but not very many. The portability will help game sites, and yes some chat stuff too, but not adult content.
I think in a couple years we might all have a foot or two in our mouths (and not those of us with a foot fetish). In fact, if you recall, Apple bawked at the idea of a video iPod a couple years back.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
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Originally Posted by 001010100110
Well maybe its just me, but why would anyone want to see hard-core porn on the bus, or in line at the DMV? I just don’t see a market for that, I can see some really soft-core stuff doing ok, with people like just like to “people watch” I have heard that is the most popular thing allot of people do. But why would you want to get all hard and bothered in the waiting room of your dentist
Good questions, and I just broke my crystal ball last week. I did just peer into my magic 8 ball and the triangle keeps floating up "Reply hazy, try again"Quote:
Originally Posted by DEVELISH
Seriously though - My take on the emerging countries, is that I would not bet on the newest emerging countries to make much of a difference for the adult market. I do not know about India, but we read the oppressive actions of China's government almost every day; they simply have no tradition whatsoever of porn as a legal business. I think sales in Europe have potential growth, and perhaps Latin America / Brazil.
One Asian country that I might think would possibly have an impact on adult sales would be Japan. It's much more industrialized compared to India, and potentially easier to market.
I think that retail's sales will minimize and the entire distribution will move online. I do not understand why major producers - like Rascal Video/Electro Video to single out an example - just can't be bothered with putting major releases online for people to watch.
It's only a matter of time before all produced movies are premiered online. The reason? Because you can just as easily got your product to your customers in Oswego, New York and Osaka, Japan.
Steve
i don't believe there's any way to really know where porn will be in 5 - 10 years. somewhere in there, there will possibly be a backlash and the average guy or gal will be sick of christian censorship. we'll have a different president, and several more attempts at new laws.
we have new very conservative supreme court justices to change our laws and not in favor of adult entertainment. but will they still be around? will more older people retire from the supreme court, and if so, will we end up with more alitos or someone reasonable?
one thing for sure - i don't know.
unfoortunately,i do not believe in brasil/latin america ...
i lived there almost 2 years,in sao paulo ...they don't have a buyer mentality but a cheater/free stuff mentality ....
already in the music industry ,70 percent of the circulation of music cd's in brasil is with illegal/ripped stuff ...
and looking at the huge amount of brasilian blogs giving links to ripped off stuff on rapidshare ...i don't see that market bringing any money to us ....
China is so closeted/you c go to jail for selling porn...but something is going to happen ...someday
in the next 5 years ,i would rather believe in europe...eastern europe countries but also turkey and north africa ...
The point of marketing adult products for mobile devices DOES NOT translate to people seeking to watch porn in public. Not everyplace is like the United States in the availability and inexpensiveness of internet access.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
The reason cell phones are so popular in places like Europe is because in some of those countries it takes forever to get a new land phone line. (Spain, Greece, etc?) We take buying a nice and cheap TV and DVD player for granted here. In other countries, electronics have an additonal cost because of additional taxes, and they just cost more. I know its fashionable to look down at Walmart, but they sure do bring the prices down on the stuff they sell... which includes Samsung and GE televisions, DVD players and other electionics. I know in the US we can pretty easily get around sales taxes on a new TV by purchasing mailorder/Amazon. If you lived in Germany, and bought a television off amazon.de I wonder if you'd still be looking at paying the VAT...... ?
(this may even explain the existence of the "Region 1/Region 2" coding racket by the movie industry)
So in other countries, many people are going to look to a cell phone to potentially look at porn because it's easier and cheaper.
In England, you pay a TV tax if you buy a television or radio, which funds the BBC. So here again, why not just migrate to portable devices and avoid paying extra money? I know people here in the States who don't bother with a landline anymore, in part because its just cheaper for the same reasons.
It sometimes sounds weird to those of us in the US as to why people would buy porn products in the cell phone. I would suspect these are the kinds of reasons why we see this phenomenon growing in other places.
Another reason people there would use mobile deivces is because they can PAY for it with mobile payment systems. Credit card use in Europe is much more scarce.
BTW, I'm not dissing these countries, I'm just trying to illustrate why mobile technologies for Internet access are so attractive in non US countries.
Steve
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Originally Posted by desslock
Maybe you are right, Europe is about the only good market I can see growing in the future, and I am sure my views are distorted by my location. We will have to wait and see I guess, its just that the cost of a PC is just going to get cheaper, I really think that will be the way to go with hard-core porn anyway. Maybe if they have some kind of glasses you could where that would display a larger screen, it might work-out.
I wouldn't mind having something to watch while waiting in my truck before class.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
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Originally Posted by 001010100110
Ya but, would that really be XXX porn man, or the news or something. Most people only watch porn for like 10 minutes at a time, and not because they love the plots LOL they just want to get off. I think it you did that in your truck with-in a month you would be in jail :plod:
LOL-I'm just saying that there are times when people find themselves alone and horny all the time and they take advantage of it whether they have porn or not, XXX or softcore, whether they will get caught or not, and there is a market there through cell phones, through video iPods, and from technologies not yet discovered.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
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Originally Posted by 001010100110
maybe a few, but can you see a world with the bathroom at work filled with guys beating off to porn, or the parking lot 1/2 filled with guys spanking the monkey before they go back to work. I think porn is a more personal thing, and always will be, they have these cell phone sites already, but they really don’t do very good.