How iPhone is changing porn

LAS VEGAS: Adult entertainment powerhouse Pink Visual saw visits to its mobile video service soar after Christmas as people turned on new iPhones and tapped into porn.

Sex video makers and distributors are evolving with the technology times, catering to customers seeking satisfaction on smartphones, Blu-ray players, and Internet television.

Digital Playground, which is credited with producing the first high-definition adult film five years ago, has a website devoted exclusively to Apple's hot iPhone and offers free trailer "podcasts" for iPods.

"The way people get their porn is changing," Pink distribution operations manager Kim Kysar said at the annual Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.

"It is going to be more personal and you get it anywhere you are: on the road, in the bathroom at work taking a break. Nobody is going to be wiser."

The number of visitors to Pink websites customised for mobile devices has rocketed for the past six months and 40 per cent of the visitors become subscription-paying members.

"We saw a peak after Christmas when everybody got new video phones," Kysar said. "One of the first things people do after activating their iPhone is Google 'iPhone porn' and here they are."

Pink began as an Internet-based business so its videos are already broken into short clips for quick downloading.

"You can basically jump to the part you want to see," Kysar said presenting video in YouTube-style short-form.

"If you jump to the last clip you get the climax seen. If you start at the beginning it is more soft-core. We've just done new encoding for new phones to make sure it looks good."