Vivid Entertainment Group will begin selling 30 of its movies online, all of which can be downloaded and burned onto DVDs so that they can easily be watched on TV sets, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday). The newspaper observed that Hollywood studios have prevented even movies distributed legally over the Internet from being burned to discs, fearing piracy and the reaction from retailers. "The simple fact is porn is an early adopter of new media," Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, told the Times. "If you're trying to get something established ... you're going to privately and secretly hope and pray that the porn industry likes your medium."The newspaper said that other porn producers are also considering a similar move, expecting that the Internet will solve two of their biggest challenges, distribution and privacy. Meanwhile, AT&T said Tuesday that it is teaming up with startup Akimbo on a service that would allow its customers to download movies from AT&T's service, Homezone. Akimbo provides a settop box -- no computer needed -- that receives the movies over the Internet and displays them on a TV set.
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