Online Porn to stop Flashing

I had to write the article for the headline alone, but its true:

The founder of Digital Playground, one of the porn heavyweights in the U.S., told ConceivablyTech that it will abandon Flash as soon as the desktop browsers fully support HTML 5. We also learned that 3D is just not there yet and that online movie streaming is unlikely to replace Blu-ray discs anytime soon.

The reason is that HTML 5 is making it redundant:

We have HTML 5, which is generally praised as the next major evolutionary step for HTML that automatically questions the future of Flash. Conceivably, Flash could co-exist next to HTML 5, but if we look at the possibilities that are provided by HTML 5, it is entirely possible that Flash will be obsolete in the not distant future.

And thus the Adult industry, a tech kingmaker in the past, is looking at the next thing - the iPhone! No flash on the iPhone + lots of iPhone usetrs + a wa of making money from content = HTML 5.

That will probably be the evolving story of all online video media going forward, at least until there is another way of making money from it.