PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

Only a couple of years ago, 80 percent of a porn producer’s income came from DVD sales. Today, it’s down about 30 percent.  And some speculate that sales could flat line in only a couple of years.While porn consumers are on the rise; porn profits are tanking... Over the last 10 years numerous upstart production houses have cut into the porn pie leaving an ever-smaller pie to go around. But the bigger problem is American households are using broadband connections to the Internet in ever increasing numbers.  47% at last count and that number will continue to grow exponentially.   This brings the immediate gratification of porn to hungry consumers via the web.  Streaming media and download to own capability have choked the life out of the DVD.  I mean, who schleps down to the local adult video store to buy or rent anymore?  No one I know. And while sales of internet-based adult entertainment grew 14 percent last year, to a whooping $2.8 billion, that figure would be substantially higher if there wasn’t for all the free competition. 

Examiner.com
Dec 16 2008