From the article..
“It’s another first for adult film companies that pioneered the home video market and rushed to the Internet when Hollywood studios still saw it as a threat. Direct download to DVD starting Monday.”
I actually was involved with this, almost a year ago, when I worked at Vivid. Much of my design changes have been retained, including the much-discussed “splash page” that transitioned users from CinemaNow to AAC. At the time, I suggested to Vivid that we develop our own, more-compatible-with-all-browsers-and-OSes version, but they didn’t go for it.
Truth be told, I wasn’t too pleased with the jackass way of handling things that went on at CinemaNow. They seemed to be way too wrapped up in company politics and horseshit buzzwords to get anything done on time. Take for instance that we had something like 5 boardroom conference calls just to decide which girl should be used for the splash page. No shit. I made more mockups for that site than I care to count. I should track down said mockups one day. Ooh.. I found my original mockup for AllAdultCash.com, the affiliate program that was supposed to accompany the new AAC site. Apparently, they’ve gone a different direction, entirely since then. Cool by me. I like the new one. It’s more “affiliate” lookin’. At the time, they asked for a much more minimal design so that’s why I made what I did.
Even though it’s taken well over a year to put together (after the whole thing was initially scrapped after the aforementioned bullshit politics got the best of everyone), and their system works with only ONE browser, on ONE OS, for ONE media player – I guess I’ll applaud. I don’t know why, but… sure, go for it guys. Maybe it’ll turn an extra couple of bucks and everyone will herald you as kings…… again.
That isn’t to say they aren’t deserving – my hat will forever be off in salute to Vivid, they’re good people and I think they’d still say the same about me. We parted on very amicable terms.
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