Adult On The Go

No medium can resist adult entertainment. The printing press brought us mass-market adult fiction. TV brought us the Spice and Playboy channels. Home movies brought us adult videos and DVDs. Now, adult is going portable. Three of the most popular portable systems are the Sony PSP, the Nintendo DS and the Apple iPod. Let's take a look at each one and how they handle adult content.

Sony PlayStation Portable The Sony PSP plays movies, but only on smaller, proprietary disks called UMDs. A few companies have already started offering adult content on UMDs, but what about the adult DVDs you already own? Will you ever be able to watch those on the fly? According to Wired News, programmer Sajeeth Cherian has developed a process called PSP Video 9. This process lets you transfer all kinds of video formats (including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and AVI) to the PSP format. Cherian also has a program called Videora, that lets you download content from BitTorrent (a peer-to-peer media sharing service) and automatically convert it to PSP format. As always, the Japanese are way ahead of us technologically, and since the debut of PSP Video 9, Cherian said that "people in Japan are creating weird little clips already encoded in the PSP format" to distribute through BitTorrent. "They want other people to download and watch [the videos], and they want to get comments and feedback. I think it's going to be pretty popular." So besides being another vehicle for adult content, it looks like the PSP might join the likes of YouTube and MySpace as a vehicle for virally distributed videos.

Nintendo DS So far, Nintendo's dual-screen game system hasn't shown much promise for adult. The system can log onto the World Wide Web, but as of now, only the Opera web browser is available for it, and according to 1up.com, the Nintendo DS "takes painful liberties with page rendering and lacks support for half of the Internet's current standards." Meaning? If you actually manage to download adult content onto your DS, it'll split the images between its two screens. The upside? No pop-up ads.

Apple iPod The video iPod has quickly become one of the gotta-have items of the decade. Apple.com offers more than 3,000 music videos and TV shows for download, and tech-savvy geeks have already started converting their favorite movies to durable, lightweight formats like MP4 for easy storage. The adult biz has followed suit. Adult star and rocker Kurt Lockwood made a point of offering his adult directorial debut for iPod download, and sites like My Mojo and Handheld Porn Sites have already started popping up to offer content for mobile devices, including the iPod. If you're more of a do-it-yourself type, there are also lots of online tutorials about how to convert videos to iPod-friendly formats.

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