We're not really familiar with this whole "iPhone" contraption that all the kids seem to be talking about these days (though we seem to remember reading a post or two about it on our sibling site Gizmodo), but it's already started to create a buzz in the porn world. Earlier this week, Digital Playground announced that it would begin distributing movies especially formatted for the device (instead of, you know, merely formatted for iPods or plain old computers running QuickTime), and now Pulse Distribution ups the ante with the development of something called the PodDisk, described as "the only DVD that will load directly to iTunes, giving you an instant library for your iPhone". Details are sketchy, but it sounds to us like it's little more than a specially formatted DVD that arrives without the copy protection mechanism that ordinarily makes it difficult to transfer content from a disk to your hard drive without knowing your way around applications like DVDx or Mac The Ripper.
Of course, the whole "iPhone porn" angle is really nothing more than marketing hype, since you'll be able to get pretty much any video you're able to import into iTunes onto your iPhone, including plain old QuickTime videos—but we still appreciate any means by which we can take our favorite smut with us wherever we go. And besides, hype is pretty much what this new thingamajig is all about. So, uh, when is it coming out again?
· "Pulse Offers PodDisc Porn for iPhone" (avn.com; super irritating video ad w/sound file warning)
· Pulse Distribution (pulsedistribution.com)
Update: Hustler jumps on the iPhone Porn hype bandwagon as well ... or rather, tries to stop it in its tracks: "HustlerWorld Becomes First Website Available On the iPhone" (hustlerworld.com)
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Previously: We Don't Even Have Our iPhones Yet, But Jesse Jane Got Her "Juice" On Them