About two weeks ago Sony backing out of an agreement with adult film studio Digital Playground to publish their movies in Blu-Ray. Digital Playground has decided to publish their works exclusively in HD-DVD format. There Joone, Digital Playground’s founder, and adult movie director, claimed that the US facilities that publish Blu-Ray discs told him that Sony threatened to revoke their Blu-Ray licenses if they published adult material.

As Gizmo Blog says “Back in the 1980s, when VHS and Betamax dueled it out over movie lovers” wallets, the former won out when Beta turned its nose up at porn.” This is comparable to the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray format war of late. But now, since Blu-ray apparently will do porn, it’s becoming even harder to tell which format will prevail. Maybe both? Three days ago (January 25th) Sony said it’s not trying to stop adult studios from releasing their titles on Blu-ray. Here’s what Sony had to say: “There’s no prohibition against adult content,” Lisa Gephardt, a spokeswoman for Sony Corp. of America, said. “We don’t tell people how they can use the licenses they get from the Blu-ray Disc Association.” Sony still has a long-standing policy not to manufacture DVDs with adult content. “Sony disc manufacturing will not manufacture adult titles,” Gephardt said. “We have never done it, and we have no plans to.”