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Wicked Pictures, Dimension DVD Produce First Adult HD-DVD

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CANOGA PARK, Calif. - Wicked Pictures has become the first adult video company to penetrate the HD-DVD market with its release of Jonathan Morgan’s slasher-movie spoof, Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre. The title is tentatively slated to ship on Friday.


Representatives from Wicked and authoring house Dimension DVD brought a check disc of the finished product to AVN’s offices for a demonstration Monday afternoon. Boasting vivid color and detail, the anamorphic widescreen presentation showcases the unprecedented quality and interactivity of the HD format.


“We started doing the preliminary work on this in March,†said Jackie Ramos, vice president of DVD production for Wicked Pictures. “We really started conceptualizing it before that point; we've been talking about going over to HD-DVD for over a year now. As soon as we heard that great strides were being made in the mainstream world with this format, we’ve always had our ear to the ground. There were a lot of hurdles…it was a lot more work than we thought. I’ve heard through the grapevine that other companies have been ready to do this, but that when it came down to it, they weren’t ready for the technical problems that go along with it.â€


Wicked selected Camp Cuddly Pines as its first HD-DVD release based on the title’s popularity. Morgan's feature won the AVN's Best Sex Comedy Award in 2006. “We looked in our vault to see what we had as far as hi-definition, and Camp Cuddly Pines seemed like an obvious choice,†Ramos said. “It’s been a very popular bestseller for us, and a lot of our newer stuff was still being edited when we started testing the new format. We asked Dimension for their opinion, and they agreed on Camp Cuddly -- when they had the encoding ready, we said, okay, let’s roll with it.â€


One of the major hurdles that Wicked and Dimension encountered was the scripting of advanced content menus, which allow viewers to navigate options without interrupting the feature.


“The functionality of the disc is the same quality as any mainstream product out there,†said Dimension DVD President Daniel Milstein, who has worked closely with Ramos from the project’s inception. “We used the same exact encoder that the major mainstream studios use…it took about two weeks to encode the feature, frame-by-frame. It takes a lot of processing power.â€


“The first one is always the hardest,†added Dimension VP Robert Brickman. “Now that we know the procedure, we’ll be able to do it faster the next time out.â€


According to Ramos, Wicked already has additional titles in the HD queue, including the AVN-nominated Curse Eternal. “We’re going to follow up with our other new releases after that,†he said. “It’s been a long, hard road doing this; at times, it got tense. The leading edge of technology is a dangerous place to be sometimes. But we’re really happy with the outcome. When I took the check disc home and watched it on my plasma TV, I was amazed by the color and the definition. It’s incredible.â€


Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre will be available at this January’s AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. The HD-DVD package will also contain a standard-def DVD sampler with five sex scenes from Wicked releases including the aforementioned Curse Eternal, Sleeping Around, Brad Armstrong’s **** and Manhunters and Julia Ann Hardcore.


"While getting to the market first certainly is very exciting for us, it was more important to us that we put out a properly functioning disc,†said Wicked Pictures President Steve Orenstein. “Jackie has spent countless hours with Dimension DVD to make sure we release a quality product, and I think we have definitely succeeded."
 
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hehe "penetrate" the hd-dvd market.

oh shut up, you all thought it too. :p
 
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I don't think it is the first...maybe first US release?

Any links for purchase?


Gotta do my part to help the format!!! :D
 
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Originally Posted by koblenza
hehe "penetrate" the hd-dvd market.

oh shut up, you all thought it too. :p
:D Yep! :D
 
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Originally Posted by RudyMeister
screen shots please so we can see how good the HD DVD PQ is :D


Can someone plz answer this mans request!!!!!! :D
 
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Do you think Kris Deering at secrets will review this release??? If he does i just hope he takes the picture of the cover art BEFORE he watches the movie......lol
 
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For small studios like those in the adult world, the technical problems of HD have been a bigger hurdle than anticipated. If those problems are worked out as expected/hoped, there may be 3-4 adult studios with HD DVD product available by the Jan. 10 Adult Video Show. With luck, the Adult Video of the Year may be available on HD DVD.


The Blu-Ray challenges appear to be structurally daunting. If no Blu-Ray titles are available at the show, the format battle, as far as the adult industry is concerned, may have been decided. Once consumers can get adult HD DVD titles, and early adult adopters make the HD DVD choice, those studios won’t alienate their customers by switching formats and other studios will want the opportunity to sell to those consumers.


There will be demand for adult from PS3s owwners, but replication restrictions make it a very risky gamble for a single slice of the market. If there is an early base of HD DVD ownership, it would be a big question why an adult studio would take the leap to release in BD.


Nobody likes a format war. It's inconvenient and expensive. Wouldn't it be interesting if adult managed to avoid one?


Adult content only available in HD DVD could be as important for HD as it was for video cassettes and VHS. How many consumers would make a format choice based on their ability to get Jenna versus their ability to get Lawrence of Arabia?


jlaures
 
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Originally Posted by NamesJay
The price for the standard definition DVD is $41.99. I'm afraid to ask what the high definition disc would go for...
Do you get a free reach around with the disk??? :eek:
 
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Seems more xxx studios are coming out of the woodwork.


Anarchy Films says "I'm working on HD DVD titles for next year, first one out is OOps I Swallowed, staring Trina Michaels. It seems that blue-ray DVDs will not catch on. I spoke to lots of people and they all came to the same conclusion that blue ray will not catch on. HD DVDs are very expensive to produce. It's about $2,500 for mastering $2,000 for authoring and editing and $1.00 for replication each DVD. The retail price needs to be about $39.95. To break even.


Lets see how well they will sell for me in early January, 2007."
 
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Nowadays, a lot of people write off adult movies being a deciding factor in the format war because of the availability of internet porn. But, if these look as amazing as ATL, which was also shot on high-def video, then this could really take off by word of mouth. J6P likes porn! This could be a major plus for HD-DVD if porn is exclusive to it.


I'm not into porn, but I'm definitely gonna have to check one of these out... just for curiosity's sake, of course. ;)
 
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Do you think Kris Deering at secrets will review this release??? If he does i just hope he takes the picture of the cover art BEFORE he watches the movie......lol
????


I guess that one went right over me as I have no idea what you meant?


Secrets will not pubish reviews on porn titles. DVDTalk does though so I wouldn't be surprised to see a review on this one over there.
 
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