Porn Stars in 3-D Lure Consumers to New Sony, Panasonic TVs

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Porn Stars in 3-D Lure Consumers to New Sony, Panasonic TVs

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By Mariko Yasu and Maki Shiraki

June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Porn star Mika Kayama is at the frontier of a push to develop videos and content in Japan that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. need to lure customers for their new 3-D televisions.

Kayama and Yuma Asami, the top actresses of adult-movie maker S1 No.1Style, will star in the country’s first DVDs for the 3-D format TVs, providing content analyst Yuji Fujimori says can trigger the success of the new sets. Sales of adult videos in Japan were 108.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in 2009, according to Takashi Kadokura, an economist who runs Yokohama- based BRICs Research Institute. That represents about 30 percent of the overall video market in the nation, according to Kadokura.

“Adult videos will likely be an incentive for consumers to buy a 3-D TV,” said Fujimori, at Barclays Capital in Tokyo. “It’s worth paying attention to the move because it’s lack of content that’s hindering expansion.”

Closely-held S1 No.1Style will offer “3D X Mika Kayama” on June 7 and “3D X Yuma Asami,” Japan’s first pornographic titles in the new format, on June 19 to coincide with the release of Sony’s 3-D Bravia models, with more titles to follow this year, according to the producer, who uses the professional name of Sakon.

Sales Motivation

“I want to try it out,” said Satoshi Miyazaki, 33, who pays about 2,000 yen a month to watch adult cable channels. “I need something dramatic to justify replacing my TV. This could be the motivation.”

Sony, the world’s third-largest TV maker, plans to offer 3- D Bravia TVs in Japan from June 10 and in the U.S. and Europe later this summer, according to Yuki Shima, a Tokyo-based spokeswoman. Panasonic became the first major TV maker to sell high-definition 3-D sets in the U.S. in March and in Japan in April. Sharp Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have said they plan to sell similar products.

Sony’s Shima and Akira Kadota, a Panasonic spokesman, declined to comment on whether 3-D adult movies would boost sales of the new TVs.

Worldwide shipments of 3-D TVs are expected to be 4.2 million units this year and 12.9 million in 2011, according to California-based researcher iSuppli Corp. That compares with its projection of 170 million sets this year for all types of liquid-crystal-display TVs, the researcher said May 25.

‘Avatar’ Release

3-D movies, which first appeared in cinemas in the 1920s, gained a resurgence of popularity with the December release of News Corp.’s “Avatar,” the world’s top-grossing motion picture. Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co., the No. 1 TV maker globally, said last month it will work with “Avatar” director James Cameron to develop content to market its 3-D sets, which went on sale in the U.S. in March.

S1 No.1Style, which releases about 25 DVDs a month, is offering 3-D titles at the same price of 2,980 yen as 2-D ones, Sakon said. Soft on Demand Co., a Tokyo-based adult-film company, plans to sell two 3-D titles on June 25 and more later this year, according to Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, a spokesman.

Local TV station Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. will join BS Broadcasting Corp. and Jupiter Telecommunications Co. in airing 3-D programs on June 19, according to the companies. Three 3-D PlayStation 3 games will be available when Sony starts selling 3-D Bravias, said Shima.

Soccer World Cup

Sony’s not aware of any announcement of 3-D titles that will be available on June 10 to coincide with the release of its new Bravia TVs, Shima said. The company’s film unit will offer “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” in 3-D Blu-ray in the summer, and the 2010 soccer World Cup games by the end of the year, she said.

Sony shares have risen 1.5 percent this year in Tokyo, while Panasonic has dropped 14 percent. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average has declined 8.9 percent this year.

The 3-D TVs may help stem a decline in sales of adult movies in Japan, which have dropped about 15 percent since their peak in 2006 because of a prolonged recession and competition from free online pornography, said BRICs Research’s Kadokura. “3-D technology is just what the porn industry needed,” he said.

S1 No.1Style spent three months making its first 3-D films, triple the time for a normal production, said 29-year-old Sakon.

Actors Moves

“It was a different filming experience using a new camera,” he said. “Actors needed to move more slowly, furniture had to be relocated and lighting rearranged to make it work. But it was worth it. We’ll make a profit out of this.”

Tokyo-based Sony, which projects sales from 3-D products excluding content will reach 1 trillion yen in the year to March 2013, plans to sell Vaio personal computers that can show 3-D images before the end of the year, the company said in January.

Toshiya Shimizu, a 28-year old Tokyo resident, said he may wait for the cheaper 3-D computer.

“I want to rent the DVD first to see how good the image is,” he said. “I’d like to watch Yuma Asami in 3-D.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Mariko Yasu in Tokyo at myasu@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: June 2, 2010 05:54 EDT

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=aQlxRgXjiTmU
 

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the one line that got my attention was "We’ll make a profit out of this" not whether the model is ok, and we will see benefits out of it, NO just PROFIT, just a quick rant,

I do wish they could work on it without the glasses, or if they was really thinking of us beaming the real thing or a projection of the real thing, into our living rooms
 

lowleg26

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Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it, cry! :eek:k:

Gotta agree with coolkevin on a couple fronts. The only concern seems to be short term profit gain (not actual evolution of the product), and the glasses thing really seems hokey. I think its going to be pretty hard to convince the majority of consumers to invest in a product where you have to put on a set of plastic 3D glasses to get the proposed benefit. It just feels like a fad thing that will burn out quickly.

I think sharp (I think it was sharp, anyway) adding a new color into the LEDs is a much better and more practical idea. Who knows where that could eventually lead?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the whole "3D glasses" thing just doesn't seem all that cool to me. :dunno:
 

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the one line that got my attention was "We’ll make a profit out of this" not whether the model is ok, and we will see benefits out of it, NO just PROFIT, just a quick rant,

I do wish they could work on it without the glasses, or if they was really thinking of us beaming the real thing or a projection of the real thing, into our living rooms

Well if you can not sell your 3D TVs being out the big guns ,bring out the girls.
Do not worry sony your definitely make a profit.
As coolKevin was saying about the glasses ,some companies like NEC, Intel and a Chinese company called TCL are already working on glasses free 3D TVs .
Go here http://www.tomsguide.com/us/3DTV-autostereoscopic-CES,review-1490.html

Well I do not know about you ,but I am going to wait for the hollow deck out of star trek to come out .
I think I be waiting a very long time!:crash:
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All the best uk21:study:
 

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3D glasses, boo.

Holoprojectors, yay.

This is where they need to be focusing. As everyone else has said, 3D visuals which do not require the user to bring anything to the table that he hasn't already been born with.

Rant aside, this is a really smart move. If anything will sell 3D TVs, it's probably this.
 

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what a good news for 3D lover. but I wonder what will it be to see the mosaic from S1 No.1Style. come dudes, you should starting out with the uncensored one before making this 3D format!
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I think sharp (I think it was sharp, anyway) adding a new color into the LEDs is a much better and more practical idea. Who knows where that could eventually lead?
Yes, it was Sharp. The technology is called Quattron. And a lot of people are saying it's just a marketing gimmick, because it only adds a color (yellow) which can already be produced with the three standard channels (RGB).

and the glasses thing really seems hokey. I think its going to be pretty hard to convince the majority of consumers to invest in a product where you have to put on a set of plastic 3D glasses to get the proposed benefit. It just feels like a fad thing that will burn out quickly.
Probably at first, yes, but researchers are already working on glasses-free 3D, which will probably come out shortly after early adopters spring for the glasses-based 3D TVs.

How does a glasses-free 3D TV work? Think of those gimmick postcards with a layer of (plastic) micro prisms, where looking at it from one angle shows one picture, and looking at it from another angle shows another. The same concept is used, but with the angles adjusted to separate the images for each eye. Of course, this would require you to stand in a precise location, which is one of the problems that are being solved.

There are other competing techniques, too, so rest assured glasses-free 3D will be a reality in the not-too-distant future.
 

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Yes, it was Sharp. The technology is called Quattron. And a lot of people are saying it's just a marketing gimmick, because it only adds a color (yellow) which can already be produced with the three standard channels (RGB).

I'd still argue that a company spending money on attempting to improve picture quality through more accurate color is a better idea than creating products that can produce an illusion of depth if you wear a flimsy set of "glasses".

There are other competing techniques, too, so rest assured glasses-free 3D will be a reality in the not-too-distant future

I don't consider the idea of 3D entertainment to be a hokey idea, just the way they're currently implementing it. The fact that a television's "value add" 3D technology requires you to wear a set of 1950's 3D specs seems really bizarre.

If, like you say, "glasses free" 3D TV's are coming shortly, that will be genuinely impressive and interesting. It would actually constitute somewhat of a milestone in entertainment technology. And it would really up the ante on video game development. I mean, can you even imagine what an installment of Crysis would be like if it were made specifically for 3D monitors? :perfectplan:
 

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Just my opinion, but I think research into alternative display mechanisms (such as OLED, AMOLED, e-ink, etc) would do more for image quality than simply adding color filters to existing displays.

Existing RGB displays have been improved by refining the technologies for controlling contrast (tighter pixel shutters), brightness (LED vs CCFL), and gamut (white vs RGB LEDs). Adding color depth and vividness is coming with OLED and AMOLED displays. And just as we see most of the world through reflection of light off of objects (rather than how TVs and computer monitors project light out of pixel apertures), e-ink is recreating that perceptual quality.

Simply adding a "yellow" channel doesn't strike me as being particularly breakthrough; why not cyan or magenta? Or possibly invent a "black" pixel that would improve black contrast? (eg: there's still a noticable difference between a blank screen and an off screen). Better yet, go ahead and add all the colors you can think of!

To me it just seems too much like Sony's RGBE sensor (used in the DSC-F828 camera). Sony added a 4th Emerald (E) sensor in the hopes of improving natural color balance. The reviews seemed promising at first, but in the end the technology was discontinued because there were other, more significant improvements made to the existing RGB sensors, far beyond what the emerald channel could capture.

Also worth mentioning that the RED 617 image sensor features higher resolution than the human eye. Specifically, the CMOS sensor has 261 megapixels, compared to between 105~126 million cones/rods in each human eye. It doesn't mean that the percieved quality of the image is better than the human eye, but in terms of resolution alone, we're close to reaching that threshold.
 

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The "Quattron" technology is a joke and actually makes things worse, from the professional reviews I've seen. It's all about selling more units. Consumer display marketing is extremely disingenuous, if not outright fraudulent (c.f. contrast ratios...) Any time you buy a display based on the manufacturer's blurbs, you could be in for a nasty surprise.
 

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It has been mentioned that one problem with glasses-free 3D is positioning the individual. But another serious problem is that not all eyes are spaced the same. Some people have faces like sheep with their eyes practically on the sides of their heads. Others have their eyes so close to their nasal bridges they almost look like "two-eyed Cyclopes", were such a thing really possible. Because there is such variety in eye positions, I think this will require the technological solution, whatever it may be, to be one which is end user-independent. It needs to be something which will work regardless of where the person stands or sits, how tall he is, whether his eyes are close together or far apart, etc. All easier said than done, of course!!
 

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In my opinion the technology isn't quite there yet.

I'm not an expert on this matter but I have had a go on a 3D TV (the type where you need the ornate sunglasses). They had a few video samples of football matches, baseball, films and animation to get an idea what it looks like with different programs.

All in all I think I was quite disappointed. When you think of a 3D TV you think that the characters will some how be lifted off the flat TV screen and made to look like their coming out of the TV.

When I looked at the 3D TV I think it can be compared to looking into a box. When you move to the left you can see what is in the left hand side of the box and when you move to right you can see what is in the right hand side of the box. Just like the Nintendo 3DS, it's doesn't look 3D, it just looks like different flat layers set at different distances. If the layers were 3D it would look a lot better.

Out of all the video samples watches the sports events seems to be the best, but just for a gimmick. I couldn't see myself watching a 90 min football match wearing those 3D glasses.

The worst thing was that you need the glasses to view the TV and without them it looks blurry. I didn't see one, but there might be a switch to change the display back to a normal none 3D display.

From the TV's I have tried out, I would stick to the normal type and wait until the technology properly developed. If the newer TV sets came with this feature for free and if you wanted to change the display to 3D whilst watching a baseball match for a bit of fun, I can understand it, but not as a permanent feature and not for the hefty price tag.
 

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In my opinion 3D is bit of a marking scam to make you buy the same movies over again, plus your got to buy new TV, new av amp with 1.4 HDMI and so on.
One little thing you need is near perfect eyesight and if you have not got that ,well all this 3d craze is a bit of a waste of time for you. But saying that I would not mind seeing Saori Hara in 3D uncensored Of course.:pandalaugh:


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In my opinion 3D is bit of a marking scam to make you buy the same movies over again, plus your got to buy new TV, new av amp with 1.4 HDMI and so on.
One little thing you need is near perfect eyesight and if you have not got that ,well all this 3d craze is a bit of a waste of time for you. But saying that I would not mind seeing Saori Hara in 3D uncensored Of course.:pandalaugh:


uk21:study:

in deed my friend! its good to see how innovative and advance how far the technology will go.... but Im happy with my full HD LCD tv.... :cool:
its only a bonus for me if i could watch it in 3D....
and i dont mind watching saori hara in 3D uncensored... every time i watch her video i have 20 20 vision.... :pandalaugh:
 

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honesty be said, i ain't very interested on this :tea::tea:

i've seen a live demo of glassless 3DTV and the result is a dizzied eye and head :scared: while those using glasses are only tiring you and possibly scratch your ear if you sit and watch it for extended period of time

so, yeah, leave it for standard LCD / Plasma thinggy on HD, that would be best in my opinion :grassdance:

unless of course if they got a projection real volumetric 3D!!!!!!! that i can feel and touch preferable HAR HAR HAR :joker::joker::joker:
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