Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
A hidden (to me) treasure trove of hardcore porn
Over 15,000 full DVDs
13,000 female models
Nearly 100,000 scenes total
Some of my forgotten favorite models have dozens of scenes I have never seen
Navigation is pretty good
They list nearly 100 niches/categories
Cons:
It’s obviously an older site with way too much content on it
Some of the older videos are lucky if they’re 360p
Trying to figure out how I forgot the name of this site when I first heard of it about 15 years ago
Bottom Line:
I remember a co-worker having a Videobox membership back around 2010 and he had an iPhone he watched it on. I was so blown away by the technology that I guess my brain decided not to remember the simple name of Videobox. I even vividly remember thinking it was FurryBox. It seems my own fetishes took over my vocabularic reasoning ability.
But here I am, 15 years late and though the blown away feeling is more like tipped over, it’s still a site I can say I am happy to be a member of. One of the pros that I don’t think was very clear to me until now is the number of DVDs. When I am a member of a porn site, I regularly call each individual video a DVD or a movie. Doing that on Videobox, sells their vast collection way short. It really does have over 15,000 DVDs. But if you’re too young to remember DVDs, that number is representative of the full DVD. There are 4-6 scenes on each of those DVDs. I can only imagine how overwhelmed I would have been as a member back in 2010.
Navigating Videobox is relatively easy. I have favorite porn studios and can search through their 500+ studios. You can scan through the long list and pages of studio names or you can alphabetically search through the studios. I don’t have the time or patience to go through and see just how accurate the studio listings are, but I will say the advertised numbers look right. You also can search through the 13,000 female models and can do that by scrolling through all those models, each with a thumbnail of the model or alphabetically. Furthermore, you can select from the nearly 100 niches/categories. I am sure there are some mistakes in their numbers and in accuracy, but I would be more worried if they were 100% right.
I found searching directly for a specific model to be the best way for me to find scenes I’m interested in and I use Down Them All successfully on Videobox. I do think a site like this one adds a very high probability of causing the user to download more scenes than they will ever watch. It is happening to me. Using this “model” name way of searching has shown me at least a few inaccuracies Videobox likely can’t fix. They have multiple versions of certain scenes. This is from a studio licensing a scene to another studio and the other studio changes the name of the scene to match whatever DVD they release the scene on. If only it was as simple as the same scene being released with 2 different names. It’s not that simple. Sometimes, one of the scenes will be let’s say 23 minutes and 18 seconds. What is the same scene with a different name may be 36 minutes and 12 seconds. You get firsthand experience in understanding video editing when that happens.
The video quality has to be one of the most important parts of a site like this one. I have found hundreds of scenes in HD quality that I’ve downloaded, but that’s not to say there’s not some poor video quality scenes. I have a couple that are under 360p. My thinking is it’s probably a bigger deal to remove those from the site than it is to just leave them.
I am very happy to have found this site and do believe content has been removed and possibly recycled, but since it was my first time as a member, I didn’t have anything to go by or draw a baseline. For the cheap price, you will have a hard time finding this much porn and they have made the site easy enough to use that it’s fun being a member of it.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Tons of content for just about everything.
Good search engine.
Free Downloads
Ability to save stuff
Using the gift card option to subscribe
Performance is good
Cons:
The content is out of date. Most porn films are at least a decade old. There is practically nothing that is actually up to date.
Bottom Line:
If you are new to porn , and love the early 2000's, this site is for you ! If you've been watching porn for 10+ years and prefer new content you will be disappointed.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
More naked men than an orgy in Rome
Streaming feature works well
488 advertised "straight guy" scenes...
Good price and has gift card join option...
No annoying ads
Easy signup and cancellation
Downloads are unlimited and can be downloaded with a download manager.
Cons:
488 advertised straight guy scenes with 200+ of them having the straight guy having sex with another man.
The gift card join option charges more than the regular pay option charges.
Videobox Men should have a blend of content for gay men to watch and for straight women to watch. If the title was Gay Videobox, I would not complain about it.
Video quality is average or below.
Bottom Line:
My first experience with pay porn was Videobox. I joined it in 2011 or 2012 for 2 years. It came with a free Roku.
It was only natural for me to give Videobox Men a try. I knew it was aimed at gay men, but it also features "straight men" on their preview. After all, the site is named Videobox Men, not Gay Videobox, which I think it was once named.
I should have expected less. The site offered a 1 month membership for $12 or I could trade in a gift card. I had a $20 gift card from a store that I no longer am near. I entered it to trade it for a membership. The $20 gift card turned into 16 days access. If paying cash it is 40 cents a day. If paying with a gift card it is $1.25 a day. I had no use for the gift card so I pushed forward with the higher exchange rate.
I opened the categories and went to "straight men". This is from the first 32 scenes that showed up -- 16 had men having sex with another man and 2 of the others included men give themselves auto-fellatio. I understand there is a market for gay men to see a straight man seduced into sex with a gay men, but should it be called "straight man"? The straight men category only makes up 488 of 9,253 scenes.
I tried the "solo" category. This number is not going to be as poorly labeled as the straight man category was, but of the first 32 "solo" scenes, 7 have men having sex with each other. Solo equals one person.
I found some of straight men masturbating. Some of those looked like they were recorded before I was born. The videos had a yellow tint in the background like a vintage newspaper. The videos had skips like old film projectors had. You cannot watch a man masturbate with the screen bouncing up and down.
I did find some newer DVDs they have with names like, "Men of Erdine", "Men of Istanbul" that might be straight men masturbating. Nothing great for me -- born in India -- and not attracted to Middle Eastern men, but maybe they are adding some solo straight scenes.
I have tried to watch gay scenes. Some are okay, but it is not very realistic for a woman to fantasize that hairy man taking it up the butt is her. The solo scenes at least can let a woman feel like we are the one recording or we are masturbating along with the man.
I have a negative feeling about this site even for gay men. Most of the videos seem generic. Even if others do not see a problem with the category problem -- I think it shows a lack of attention for detail -- and would believe it is not just a problem in the categories I used in this review with those problems. I feel bad for those that subscribe mostly to gay porn. The quality does not seem to be there; neither is the care we see in straight sites.
My score includes some points for more than half of the newest solo DVDs being of what appear to be straight men. They have one called All-American Beauties. The men are believably straight, but one of them masturbates with a pumpkin and another sticks his penis in a seashell. The voyeuristic quality of watching them masturbate with odd objects is okay, but I would start laughing at both of them.
That is the other reason I feel bad for those buying gay porn. There is a lack of production quality.
I only would recommend it if you have a gift card to a store without a quality website or location within 1,000 miles of you.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- It is one of the biggest porn sites in the world. Great place for a new porn collector to start their collection.
- This membership had a purpose and it maybe shows a strength often overlooked at Videobox. Will explain.
- 21,500 DVDs, 100,000+ scenes and decent navigation.
- 97 niches, the main reason I have bumped my score up and made the return to a site I thought I was done with.
- 2,718 DVDs in HD quality, 13,305 HD scenes.
- Continues to offer a feature I rarely if ever see on other sites, the custom clip feature where you can download only the part or parts of the video you want.
- The $12 price gives Videobox one of the highest values.
- Download speeds are good (75-80% of my max).
- If you like their add-on channels, you can wait until the last few days of your Videobox membership and add the channels at a prorated price. Will go into that in the BL too.
- 5 new DVDs, 15-20 scenes per day.
Cons:
- You ever thought about walking into a massive store with bargain bin porn DVDs? There are a lot of those here.
- Their marketing interest in releasing 5 DVDs per day has led to a lot of overlapping scenes. There is one scene of Eva Angelina that is on there 4 times from 4 different DVDs.
- The channel add-ons are not updating as much as they were(some aren't at all) in the past and they range from $15 to $35 each if you add them at the beginning of your membership.
Bottom Line:
I really didn't think I would ever join Videobox again. I had the majority of DVD scenes I wanted and since I no longer collect many specific models, it just didn't seem like a site I would be back to.
A long time ago, I saw a scene of Eva Lawrence (spelling could be way off, I have seen it 3 different ways). It is a "handjob" scene but she sits on the guy's stomach and does the earliest variation of the cameltoe slide I remember seeing. I did not have it in my collection. I had seen it on a tube site with the title "The Big Tease #2". I looked on Google and Videobox not only has The Big Tease #2 but also #1 and The Big Tease #4. Every scene on these DVDs has a tease of the cameltoe slide or similar. Each DVD has 8 scenes, that is 24 scenes of a niche I haven't had much success finding. Those alone at 50 cents each easily make a join worth $12.
Once inside, they have another DVD series called, "Stroke, Suck and Tease" and it features similar teases I have been looking for. They have 10 DVDs from that series and those have 10 scenes on each DVD. That's 124 scenes when combining the first ones equaling less than 10 cents a scene. I was looking in the similar/recommended scenes and they had 3 DVDs in the CFNM Partying series. These are extremely rare. One of those features one of Europe's prettiest models ever in Aleska Diamond, dressed, teasing, giving a handjob and sex with her clothes still on. It's true, Aleska now has implants and they are shown in this scene but it is still rare content. I almost wonder if the scenes on these are unused or licensed content from Fully Clothed Sex.
I ended up downloading 429 scenes total. So much for not having a reason to come back, right?
The navigation is still hit or miss. Some models aren't tagged in their scenes. Some are wrongly tagged.
What is standing out to me is a lot of these scenes are 5-10 years old or more. It was before studio porn became an assembly line of scenes with little variance. I also did the Vivid and Evil Angel channels in the last 3 days of the membership. Those were $1.50 each to add thanks to the prorating. They had a few Vivid scenes I haven't been able to find on Vivid's own site.
It is making Videobox more than just a DVD site. This is where those scenes are that you forgot about. A new porn user could easily download multiple Terabytes of scenes.
It is the niches that brought me back. I have no idea how they can come up with 97 niches but they have and it is also something that is lost in newer studio porn. The sites these days are set on giving their scenes a theme and every scene they make follows that theme. Here, you can find a much bigger variety.
It is worth mentioning the nearly 3,000 HD DVDs for those interested in newer content.
Could it be possible that the porn industry's current interest in releasing the same type of scenes day after day could be a way to strengthen a site like Videobox that was previously dropping off? What I mean by that is like the XEmpire Network where HardX, DarkX, EroticaX and LesbianX are so set in sticking to their title their scenes become clinical feeling.
I just randomly picked a studio for that example but it is how many sites/networks are becoming. Here on Videobox you can have 195 scenes of enema action (sorry, had to), 109 scenes of Mardi Gras, 1,277 of Older Men with Younger Women, 268 in prison (can't make this up), 1,015 public scenes, 259 of strippers, even 82 of midgets, 104 of twins, and the more standard porn niches like 63,000+ scenes with oral, 30,000+ of anal, even 393 of double anal and 7,000+ of DPs.
To one extent maybe I am being a little mocking but when the quality of current porn sites using cookie cutter porn reaches the level it has, Videobox is a much better value.
I will go back to my first con. If we could go into a store with stacks and stacks of bargain bin porn we would all be able to find something that interested us. Especially if they have 97 different niches in those DVDs. The newer DVDs do seem to be of "higher quality" with HD options in the download section but I watched a few of those and the only improvement I see is in the technical quality. If you're like me you will also see a lot of models you forgot about. A few for me include: Mason Storm (60 scenes), Cherokee (140 scenes) and Gauge (26 scenes).
It doesn't surprise me that I had a complete flip on my feelings towards Videobox. I always preferred the early 2000s Vivid scenes when looking at DVDs. It just seems it is now happening with all studios. The models were more into their scenes in 2005-2010 than they are in 2019. There is very little competition for Videobox. I can't let 25% lower technical quality hurt 50% better produced and performed scenes.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
1. No download limits of any kind
2. Browsing and searching is excellent
3. Really nice system for you to "stash" things you like.
Cons:
1. Whole "studios" pull all of their content sometimes and there is no warning.
2. Half of the content is low quality: Content that's obviously been upscaled, content where the ripping process has clearly gone wrong, and content that I can't believe anyone wants.
Bottom Line:
Good site, mediocre content, good billing, low hassle.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- I'm pretty sure it's the biggest porn site on the internet and if not, it's close.
- Depending on your tastes, I find most of the new DVD porn to be similar to what you find on the big networks.
- They've cleaned up a lot of navigation and site issues but more issues have showed up.
- The standard membership gives you a lot of value, especially if you're new to porn.
- Download speeds are very good, going right at 80% and up of my max DL speed.
- Most of the new(er) DVDs are in 1080p resolution.
- Still updating with 5 DVDs per day (average of 20 scenes).
- The biggest pro in my opinion is the opportunity to rack up a huge collection of your favorite stars.
- More genres than they realize they have. I believe the only thing you won't find here is gay male porn.
- Easy to join and cancel with their onsite cancellation process.
Cons:
- The search is back to being broken but not really broken, it's just they now include all their scenes from their add-on channels in your search results.
- I used to not think too much of this but it's becoming a big problem now ... way too many repeat scenes.
- If a person joined all the add-on channels Videobox has they would have upwards of $200 invested in a one month membership.
Bottom Line:
I thought the last time I reviewed Videobox would be the last time but at least one model has caught my attention who I've been collecting scenes of and VB has a large amount of scenes of her. It's also the easiest place to add to your niche interests like handjobs and some CFNM too.
What do you get for updating your porn site with 5 DVDs per day for years? A mess. Videobox currently shows 19,748 DVDs and that's 106,244 scenes. The dilemma you'll find yourself in is there's no doubt you can find something you'll like or maybe even a lot that you like but you will spend a whole lot of time trying to find it all and a lot of frustration.
My current example: I once saw a CFNM scene that featured this unnamed model, the other 2 models were named in it but this other one played the role of the sweet, shy, innocent girl who just watched. I thought she looked familiar but I don't join a lot of sites with the newest models on them. I then found out she's Dillon Harper who is one of the most popular models in porn. Anyway, I looked around for content of her and Videobox says it has 48 scenes of her.
So, I joined a few weeks ago and sure enough, they have 48 scenes of her. That is if you have Videobox, their PornPros add-on channel ($15), their Reality Kings add-on channel (which is where I first saw her), their Evil Angel add-on channel ($15). It might not seem like that bad since you would think those individual studios would maybe only have 2-4 scenes max but here's how it breaks down:
PornPros Channel has 14 of her. Evil Angel Channel has 9 of her. Reality Kings Channel which cannot be joined any longer has 3 of her. Elegant Angel has 1.
So, of those 48 scenes, only 21 are available with a Videobox membership. It gets worse. Of those 21, 3 are the exact same scene listed as Natural Tits #23 scene 8, Don't Get Mad, I Fucked Your Dad #1 scene 2 and Young Freaks #3 scene 2. So, I'm down to 19 new scenes. There's two others that look like they've been doubled.
Meaning I went in thinking I was going to get 48 scenes of Dillon Harper but only got 15-16. As much as I want to keep complaining about this that's still a decent amount for the price but more so than that, it was so time-consuming and frustrating to sort through the scenes that weren't included with membership.
Videobox has and always has had every chance to be a dominant force in porn but the add-on channels are now dying off and they're still asking full price for them. I mean really, $35 a month for a Kink channel? You can join the Kink network for half of that and sometimes for a 1/3 of that and have access to thousands of more Kink scenes. It's not that I'm that bothered by the add-on channels as it is that their scenes are now mixed in the search results. Those add-ons have lowered the navigation of a site that already struggled in navigation.
There are positives including the amount of HD DVDs. They're showing having around 5,500 HD DVDs, that's almost 30,000 HD scenes ... but, those damned add-on channels content are included in those numbers.
I have been frustrated by their insistence to cater to their mainstream porn audience and that's still a problem. They added 10 "handjob" DVDs in 2017 but 4 of those are cumshot compilations that just happen to have handjobs in them. So, they averaged a handjob DVD per 2 months. The same 2 months that saw a total of 300 DVDs added. I think it all shows contentment on their behalf. Videosz made a run at them but they're now struggling and Videobox just sits there with their manipulated numbers to make them look even bigger than they are. Which is something they don't even need to do.
Despite all this negative and frustration, if you know who you're looking for, you can still get more content of them here than almost anywhere else. Here's a few examples:
Tanner Mayes 56 scenes, Alexis Texas 189 scenes, Sophie Dee 164 scenes, Bree Olson 59 scenes, Tori Black 113 scenes, Naomi Russell 134 scenes, Sunny Lane 49 scenes, and Nautica Thorn 165 scenes.
I used those because those are ones I had either deleted or lost and needed to get back. That's a lot of porn. But nearly each one had Evil Angel scenes in their scenes and if you're into the newer models most have Porn Pros Channel scenes in their scenes.
I even found a model who I haven't seen hardly no content of Priva, a Thai model and they have 19 scenes of her but 2 are Evil Angel, which is where I think I first saw her.
What I think is sad is that I can sit here and see all this potential but I know Videobox has been around for nearly 20 years and I have to think if they've not reached their potential after that long, they're not likely going to. I think it would take shutting the site down for a few months and doing major clean-ups to make a positive change even possible. As it is, I join it and have a list ready of who I'm looking for. Still recommended but only for those with patience and who are new to porn.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
+Huge Library of more than 22,000 Movies and/or 126,000 scenes to choose from.
+They update with approx 200 new movies each month.
+They have access to the library of studios that are now dead and whose content isn't available elsewhere. As well as many very popular current studios.
+You can stream the videos online.
+You can view thumbnails of each video prior to streaming or downloading.
+You can download all the videos in the newer MP4 format. Resolution will vary depending on date of update but the lowest seems to be 640x480.
+They now offer over 4000 HD movies / 23,000 HD scenes.
+They tag each movie/video with multiple tags to help narrow search options when members select those keywords in the search bar
+There is not a lot of third party advertising which means they can dedicated the bulk of the screen to their own content.
Cons:
-The site's huge library is not actually availble to all members because you need to buy seven seperate upsell channels/studios to get the full access.
-They still don't have all the library of their biggest studios.
-The scenes/movies have a multiple of tags attached to them but they aren't always accurate and that means you have to be careful when looking for specific sex acts.
-I found that there is often an issue with the donwloaded videos where the soundtrack the video don't macth and there is a significant off-set which is quite distracting if not annoying.
-They suffer the same problem as similar sites in that many of the newer updates aren't very good or is simply content taken from various websites.
-The music in many of the older videos is often quite loud and distracts from the action.
Bottom Line:
*This is an easy site to review because it's next to impossible to not satisfy someone simply because they have so much content to choose from that you have to be so picky not to find a modicum of decent porn to download. I didn't see much that is all that different from the last time I reviewed the site other than to notice that even more studios have died since then. That's bad news for a site like VB because it's another source of content no longer available and that also measn they have to look elsehere to be able to upload so many new videos each month.
*This brings us to one of my cons. Seeing as their sources of content are drying up than I expected them to maybe start searching for content from their existing studios. Many of their biggest studios have incomplete libraries of content and looking fill up those libraries would be agreat way to add videos that many people have never seen or haven't seen in a long time.
*I really wish they would have a simpler system of membership because as it stands I can't emphasize how much I find their current system to be annoying. Chargecustomers more money and give me full access or don't show the customers all the movies they can't see unless they upsell. For that reason the site loses some points. The upsells are a little stiff when you have already dished out for a monthly membership.
*For all of my negative opinions. I can't help but feel that everyone should join VB at least once to see just how much amazing porn the industry has produced in the last decade and more. I'd even recommend that people buy some of the upsells but only once they have perused the content you will get for your investment.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Pro:
21,826 Movies
120,721 Scenes
13,000 porn stars to-date.
Over 100 Niches
Updates daily approx 5 Videos.
Joined for 9.99 price, reg 12.00
Customize clips, cut and paste.
HD Videos, majority are very good to HD quality.
New ( since I was last a member) Roku streaming.
Cons:
Cons:
Crosschecked at joining be aware.
Can be daunting for new members to navigate.
Slow at peak hours, streaming Roku was laggy.
Some fill content.
Bottom Line:
Overview.
This is a large site anyone that has been a member knows this is not just large but the largest possible site of porn on the planet. That said it can be like finding a needle in a hay stack, I found like most porn sites the search engine is just ok and not intuitive. However its near impossible to expect 100% perfect from a site this huge. Imagine sitting at the superbowl with 40,000 screaming fans and you want to find a man with red pokadotted underwear. It can be done but its a task. I when trying to find exactly what I wanted I often found other tasty morsels instead. I was hard pressed ( no pun intended ) to find old material when I was a member before which tells me how intuitive the search engine is not. However, it was better then I remember and navigation is different. Better perhaps but still takes some doing to get around there is no user manual for the site so its kind of a learn as you grow ( pun intended this time ).
Pro:
The site must have every porn star to exist on the face of the planet. They boast 13K of stars wow.
Quality of video is good, but the site is more a quantity site secondary to quality. But Its amazing at under 15.00 that you can find just about anything. This site does what free sites do, and does it better, with more quality and near free pricing.
Cons:
You wont find everything, especially sites that claim original content and do not sell or lend rights are not here. As well as some solo stars.
As noted at peak hours there are issues with streaming on my Roku, now maybe that was just my connection. But I have a 60MB connection that should blaze thru this site so it may not do well on peak hours. Download at peak was fine.
Toads Last word:
Bottom line I could repeat what others have but if you read one review you get the jist the site is porn users wet dream, if you can't get a hard on at this site then you wont anywhere. And the ladies, this site is for you too. There is a huge abundance catering to LBGT, just about something for everyone.
The site has some of the most amazing scenes many you would have to join 100 sites to see them, and that is why Video Box stays in business they have 100's joining daily if not thousands. I wrote and asked them how many members they boast they didn't say, but said hypothetically they get more then 100 per day of the month.
Toads Boner Points 3.95 out of 5.00
You may be wondering why a PU score of 92 and a
TBP ( toads boner points of 3.95 )
The site boast a huge content, but lacks user intimacy that is seen on many sites
I love like Twistys,Bang Bro, etc. This is a mass churning system of porn. Its made to get it to you fast and keep you hard long. However you may find yourself not engaging in along time, and spending more time mass downloading due to the huge site. With about 1/2 million items that could be downloaded you won't do it ever but you'll try wont you. And my point system is based on the fact its about mass content and not intimacy and getting turned on and happy endings. Based on PU standards its a 92 based on my points its 3.95.
If you have not joined do so, if you have before think about it they update
like 150 items a month. In just 4 months that 600 more to download at 12.00 a pop.
Or join for 8.00 a month for a year.
Get some , you can't go wrong here simply way to much here to not give you a smile.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
Huge number of DVD's
Good variety of niches
Download speeds good. Limited mainly by my slowish broadband.
If you want premium channels the process is very
transparent.
Choice of HD now. Over 3000 titles in HD
Price.
Cons:
HD quality varies a lot, as mentioned by other reviewers.
Some of the updates are 'bargain basement' titles.
Bottom Line:
I had a real good look around at VB competitors and the reviews on here. In fact I spent hours reading reviews. In the end I decided to give VB another yearly sub. Nearly went with Evil
Angel but then decided that I would just re-new with VB. Might try Evil as a premium channel.
I have never had a billing problem with VB, their website always works perfectly for me, and the price is good.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- The biggest porn DVD site on the internet and one of the cheapest when joining through Porn Users at $12/month.
- Five full DVD updates per day.
- Their definition of HD includes anything 720p or higher resolution. Based on it, roughly 25% of their DVDs are HD quality.
- What tags they have are actually pretty good
- Premium channels are the big draw for me. Will detail them below in bottom line.
- If you like late 90s, early 2000s porn, a Videobox membership combined with the Vivid channel is probably the best buy in porn.
- Download speeds can vary, but are usually consistent. The variances happen at certain times each day and sometimes it's actually faster, other times way slower.
- My download manager works well (free download manager), but I limit how many files it downloads to 20 at a time so not to risk download links timing-out.
- A generally easy to use site, easy to cancel, unless you do something I do, then canceling can be frustrating. Explanation in bottom line.
Cons:
- Back years ago, I was convinced that VB was steadily trying to improve their site. Not so anymore. I think they have settled into a mass porn site and have no intentions of making themselves any worse or any better.
- Video quality is inconsistent. They'll have a "HD" scene that is 720p with a 1,500 bitrate. While also calling a 720p scene with an 8,000 bitrate "HD". I could just call this being sloppy and careless since it's what it is.
- Pricing is good unless you want the premium channels and join them early in your Videobox membership. See bottom line.
- Loads of newly added DVDs that are full of scenes already on the site under different names. Gives the impression of recycling content, but I think they're just ... sloppy and careless. I have one Eva Angelina scene, four different times and none are the same length. I don't even know who to blame for those, the producers milking a scene or Videobox bloating their numbers.
Bottom Line:
This was at one time one of my favorite sites. I still think it's an excellent site for new members and for those who like that late 90s, early 2000s era porn. Their newer DVDs are good, but the majority fall into the cookie-cutter porn genre, seen one you've seen them all type of porn. That's where the premium channels come in. These are the premium channels with their prices if you add them on the first day of your Videobox subscription: Evil Angel $15 - You can get a full subscription to Evil Angel for the same price using the PU discount, it's a much better deal. Reality Kings $15 - Roughly the same price as you can get from PU, and it's a better deal than the add-on channel.
Kink $35 - Pretty unique channel, it's sort of a best of or compilation of Kink's various sites, it's a great addition, but I hold off until the prorated price brings the cost below $10.
Soft On Demand $35 - Typical Japanese site with mostly censored/blurred pubic areas. It's okay, join it for the last week of your VB subscription if you're interested in Japanese porn. Elegant Angel $15 - It's a good deal if you like Elegant Angel, but I've never joined it.
Club Tranny $15 - Maybe a good buy for those interested in this genre. Vivid $15 - Great add-on, to my knowledge it's the biggest collection of downloadable Vivid DVDs on the internet. Vivid's site didn't have downloads when I was last a member on it (about 9 months ago), so this is a really good deal if you like Vivid.
I admit, I'm a cheapskate when it comes to Videobox. I wait until half of my Videobox subscription is over then join Vivid. This gives you a prorated price of $7.50. I then join Kink when there's less than a week left on my Videobox subscription which gets the price below $10. This is the problem with this method:
If you cancel your main Videobox subscription then decide to add say Vivid or Kink or both or any of the other add-on channels, it reopens your Videobox subscription. Or better said, it cancels out your cancellation of Videobox. It goes like this: Videobox canceled on 11/22/2015, membership lasts until 12/3/2015. Vivid channel added on 11/29/2015 Videobox renews on 12/3/2015.
I would be complaining more about that, but I don't think it's an attempt to rip-off customers as much as it is ... sloppy and careless. You just have to go back and cancel Videobox each time you add a new channel if added after your initial cancellation.
Overall, Videobox has little to offer me anymore except being the gateway to those premium channels. For a new member, I think it's a great place to start your porn collection. The quality can vary greatly even if it says a scene is HD, you really don't know what the quality is until you download it. You can kind of guess by looking at file size, but they don't list bitrates on any of their scenes.
The search engine has become all but useless. Even going directly to your favorite stars pages can be misleading. I've thought I'd downloaded every scene for a model only to see 2-3 scenes listed in the recommended scenes that aren't listed with the model. The premium channels cause a problem here too since the search results will give you results all across Videobox and all their premium channels. This is one that has bothered me for years. If you search "Taylor Hayes", a late 90s, early 2000s superstar model, she will be listed in dozens of scenes, but most are on the Vivid channel.
They do offer a package of 5 premium channels for an extra $50 a month, which is certainly cheaper than their current rates on those channels, but it's still pretty costly.
Downloading from the site is no longer as easy as it used to be. I use free download manager. With it, I can click and drag a link into it. Each time I do it on Videobox it says, "Select preference". I hate to be an ass, but didn't I select my preference when I clicked the format I wanted to drag to my download manager?
While Videobox is still one of the better values in porn, it's also becoming one of the more frustrating and annoying sites in porn as well. There's also the problem with videos playing while you're trying to load your download manager and you rarely have taken the time to mute those videos so expect everyone in your house to wonder who's having sex.
You could do far worse than Videobox, but it's time for Videobox to give up its crown as the best porn DVD site. I also have a membership to Videosz and will review it soon. Videobox might be depending too much on their premium channels to deliver non-mainstream porn.
I joined for one main reason. I couldn't find my Videobox external hard drive following a move. I downloaded my favorite scenes, most of which were on Vivid and added a 100 GB or so of Kink content. My current Videobox folder is smaller than those and it's why I rated it 80. If you're new to VB then add 10 points to the score. Recommended for new members and those who have lost their favorite scenes.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
There are some pros.
1) There is a lot of variety.
2) If you are nostalgic there is a lot of material from way back.
3) They have multiple updates per day.
4) They have some HQ material
5) They have some premium channels
6) The price point feels right.
Cons:
There are some cons.
1) There is a lot of variety but much of it is multiple copies of the same material. I have found four copies of the same scenes.
2) Nostalgia is nice but having your favorite models in true HD is not gonna happen here.
3) The updates are lackluster and often "re-updates" making it look like their are adding new material when they are actually rehashing old material.
4) They removed all of the good quality WMV files. What is better a crystal clear 3GB WMV or a 95MB Mp4? It does not take a rocket scientist to answer this question. This is my biggest gripe removing HD scenes but not replacing them with similar quality.
5) You get a better deal from the Premium channel providers than going through VB.
Bottom Line:
The bottom line is this. If you want variety to tickle your funny bone then this site might be for you. But I highly suggest passing up this site until they make some major changes. This used to be the greatest website hands down. But they have fallen far and hard. I do not personally suggest this site to anyone.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Pretty well organized, easy to search and sort
-Straight forward join/cancellation
-One of the largest collections available
-Very fast download speeds
Cons:
-Video quality leaves much to be desired
-Premium channel prices cost as much membership direct from distributor
-Numerous recycled scenes (especially lately)
-Mostly outdated content unless its a premium channel
Bottom Line:
Time to post a new review for 2015.
I would no longer recommend this site to most users. I am a long time off and on member for at least 6 years (I know because I have files that I downloaded from them dated 2009), and I've finally decided to call it quits on this site.
I rejoined yesterday to download a few new scenes they added over the past year, but was surprised how exactly they changed. They now no longer offer high resolution downloads on around 99% of their catalog. Previously they offered between 4 and 5 different formats. Although a few years ago they added typically 1 HD resolution DVD every couple of days, their highest resolution was in WMV for 99% of the videos. At anywhere from 2500-4000 kbps bitrate this was very good quality. Now the highest they offer is an MP4 that is around 1100 bitrate. For those not savvy on video quality, just to put it simply, the downloads look no better than you can find for free on many tube sites.
Coupled with the numerous duplicate scenes, erroneously encoded files that show up pixelated once downloaded, and a lack of new content due the changing industry. Videobox just seems out of touch with the demands of its customers.
Here are my ideas that might improve them:
-They should stop offering 5 DVDs per day if many are going to be duplicates.
-They need to find more exclusive content. I'm sure there are studios that are sitting on 4-6 year old content that they are willing to lease or sell to VB... especially in the foreign markets (Europe, Russia, Japan, Brazil).
-There are many American studios that have thousands of DVDs in their catalog but aren't making new videos in 2015, or may have a website that has not been updated in over 6 months with a new scene. Just a few examples off the top of my head: RedlightDistrict, Anabolic, and Vouyer Media. They should try and get some more of that.
-In 2015 ALL of their content, NEW OR OLD should be available in HD or at least DVD quality (3000+ bitrate). They seem to be heavily promoting things like the Roku... but do they seriously think people are watching that subpar video quality on their HDTV?
EDIT: I want to add this to the review since I didn't make it clear initially. The changes affect the streaming quality also, not just download quality. See comment section below.
They do a few things right such as the easy organization of the website to find what you are looking for, but the download quality and lack of new content not readily available elsewhere no longer makes this site a good value.
Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
Huge quantity and variety of DVDs. (Obviously!)
Great consistent download speeds.(Only limited by my
slowish ADSL connection.)
Whole site is just nice and well designed.
Search function works perfectly for me.
Navigation is easy.
Easy to browse by Niche, Studio, Pornstar, etc
.mp4 files look great even in large size not HD.
Process to join the premium sites such as Elegant Angel is transparent - no trickery.
Cancellation is easy.
Price is awesome.
Honest and reliable site.
Cons:
Some of the 5 DVDs a day updates are fairly bland, and old, but hey, look at the other 15999 titles and find something you like!
One cross checked site on joining but it is very obvious and easy to deselect.
Bottom Line:
I've been a Videobox member on and off for the last 5 years and just renewed after being a member last year. I nearly joined their biggest competitor this time, but stuck with Videobox because they have been near perfect for me.
They have an amazing variety of porn niches on the main site and I think most everyone will find stuff there that they like.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
This site has 1000's of high quality well shot porn videos!
The price is reasonable.
My interaction with their customer service has been very good.
They have a great set of tools for providing user feedback to videos.
Searching the site is very easy and frankly very powerful.
There are dozens of niches to choose from and as mentioned above these scenes are easy to find and watch.
Cons:
New additions to the site are more likely to be poor quality.
This site has many studios and tries very hard to provide protection against piracy and while VideoBox tries to provide downloadable scenes WITHOUT watermarks which is a plus, it has resorted to posting scenes which have been rendered unwatchable with pixelation added at random (a common thing nowadays) and audio that does not sync properly with video.
Bottom Line:
I wish I could endorse this site with a hardy hella awesome site. Sadly, today that is not the case. I think most people who watch good porn and are willing to pay for 12 months up front will find this site to be a great deal. But only because of years and years of archives of porn that is accessible, most of which is standard definition at best. If HD porn that has the all the trimmings is your thing please look elsewhere.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Outstanding download flexibility
Large collection
Frequent updates
Diverse content
Great in-browser player
Highly functional
Cons:
Poor video quality
Mislabeled content
Inelegant interface
Some damaged videos
Very little HD content
Bottom Line:
I was interested in trying a Mega-site of this type and debated between VideoBox and VideosZ. VideosZ makes it easy to browse what they have. VideoBox makes it hard. I suspect because their UI for browsing is not as slick looking as their home page.
Still as a potential customer it's important to know what they have. For those interested go to http://www.videobox.com/studios and you can see what they have available similar to at VideosZ.
It's fairly easy to browse by studio or model and even perform filtering beyond that. It's not a great UI design but I found it more functional than many sites. Ultimately you are displayed a thumbnail for each scene with click-able Title, Tags, & Names. Scrubbing over the thumbnail lets you view the video as a series of images and clicking on the image takes you to the player page where the video begins playing at that point in the video. Nice!
You can create a custom clip of the video selecting only the portion you want and just download that piece instead of the whole video. Very Nice!
They have the most accommodating download system I've yet used. You stay logged in for 24hrs and their links do not expire. You can load over a hundred downloads into a manager and just let it go. No limits, expirations, nothing. Just DL all you want. And they add 4 DVDs worth of content daily. Mega Awesome!
But let's talk about exactly what you'll be downloading.
Download options are presented best to worse as H.264-DVD, WMV-DVD, WMV-High, IPhone. And...they all look bad.
The "DVD" options may use a DVD as a source but they are certainly below DVD quality. The quality is comparable to a mediocre tube site. In fact VideoBox IS essentially a tube site with a large collection & a mostly accurate database to help you find stuff.
Occasionally their videos offer a 720HD option. I'd say < 5% of them. Quality varies a lot with these. They can look like a soft poor quality DVD, an actual DVD, or like a decent 720HD video that is a bit better than DVD.
It's not uncommon to find inaccurate information on their videos. Most egregious is when the wrong performer names are listed. I also ran into rare instances when a video file was corrupt, audio was just static, or audio was played at reduced speed making it sound like a demonic orgy. This is rare, but not so rare that I didn't run into it.
It's very convenient to be able to go to a single place for everything but it is disheartening when you find a scene you want and you know it should look a LOT better than it does.
I'll liken VideoBox to NetFlix in the following analogy: It's a convenient one-stop shop that allows you to browse thru a large & diverse library to find what you want and try stuff out. And you can certainly watch the video. But if you find something you really like, perhaps "The Hobbit". Are you going to be happy with a low quality version of it, or do you want the 3D Extended Edition Blu-ray.
I fall into the 3D Extended Edition Blu-ray category so while I appreciate a lot of what VideoBox does it is not really for me.
If you're not concerned with video quality and just want inexpensive browsing of material you can add ~10 points to this review score.
Currently the cost thru TBP/PU is a very reasonable $12/month. If you're not concerned about the video quality or you want to find an old video that you don't expect high quality from - absolutely join up. Otherwise though, I think you'll find the site intriguing but ultimately disappointing.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Pro:
Gazzilions of Movies
Varied movie formats
Many updates daily.
Fast downloads.
You can edit movies on site.
Cons:
Navigation is poor and hard to figure out.
Many misnamed miss-linked
Menus are very confusing
Some movies very bad quality.
Bottom Line:
Overview:
The site is huge lets face it every review says this site is massive.
And with size will come errors, the site gets a 84 because why bigger is better (Wink wink). A site that uses their big site poorly is like have erectile dysfunction with a 12" cock.
Does matter how big it is can't use it what good is it.
The site has something for everyone, and just about every porn star past and present can be found in at least one scene.
I found allot of mislabeled movies and porn stars.
Black pornstars name and all white cast ? Stuff like that.
When you choose all movies by a person you d not always get all movies. making hunting and pecking to find gems. Which feels like trying to find a marble in the Sahara.
Toads Take:
The site is very wood worthy, with so much to give the consumer they manage to get by with flaws and all.
One awesome option that kept my review in the 80's was the edit feature. Now that is cool. I was able to save a ton of space removing fill and just seeing action.
There are few bells and whistles, but being the search options and navigation in accuracies take away from some hard work done by the designers.
Bottom Line:
At just under 10.00 I could not go wrong I ended up finding long lost movies which made this toad very happy. The site is big and there is just not good enough technology yet to make a site this huge any easier. My review was tough because I do not believe in giving excuses to sites that do not manage content regardless of the size or not.
However if you do not join this site you will have no idea what its like to go porn shopping at a site as big as Walmart. I would say VB is the walmart of Porn. Not perfect but lots of stuff and amazing price.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
75,000+ scenes (even including repeats and extras) with 20-30 added every day
Good streaming player
Lot's of scenes that aren't available anywhere except VOD sites
Ability to cut scenes to only watch certain portions
Cons:
Navigation is okay, but could be better
Download options (could use 1080p HD option)
Most new uploads are standard definition
Didn't max out my download speed most days
Some premium channels don't do HD uploads for recent movies
Bottom Line:
When talking about Videobox, in the end it comes down to the basic question of quality vs. quantity. Which isn't to say that there isn't good content here. There is, and in a general sense, there's a lot of it. It's just that there's so much content, that a lot of the good stuff can just get lost, so you have to go hunting for it. And if you're solely focusing on the newly uploaded movies (which is a bad idea, IMO), then the ratio of good to bad looks even worse. When you're running a site with this much content, the thing you absolutely have to focus on is search and discovery. Making it as easy as you can find to find the type of content you're looking for makes the site look a lot better, because there's probably going to be something you really like here no matter what you're tastes are. And while Videobox does look like it's trying improve there, it looks like there's still a ways to go.
As stated, the big draw of Videobox is the amount of scenes. They list over 85,000 scenes, which is more than any other company that I can think of. Even if you get rid of all the repeated uploads (of which there are a lot), you've still probably got more than 75,000 scenes. Forget about a month, that's more content than most people could hope to go through in half a year. The content goes back at least a good 20 years, and you can find scenes that are a good deal older than that. And many of these scenes/movies are from companies that not only don't produce content anymore, but closed up shop before the internet became the primary method of porn distribution. In other words, these are scenes from companies that don't have websites, so outside of VOD this is the only place you can find them. Having that many scenes allows you to have so much variety in them that there is almost literally something for everyone.
When it comes to watching those scenes, everything is pretty much standard (good streaming, good downloading), with 2 caveats. The first is that the quality maxes out at 720p. Which is disappointing, but not a deal breaker. The second is a feature they have that makes it so that you don't have to download the whole scene if you don't want to. Basically, when you go to the scene page, you can pick a start point and an end point, and then just download the video between those two points. It works really well, and I can see it being great for people who just want specific acts inside a certain scene.
And now we get to finding those scenes. They do offer the basics that most large sites have in terms of finding scenes. All scenes are tagged with female talent and tags specific to the acts in the scene, so you can look for them that way. You can also combine these tags to search for multiple things at once. There is a small issue where searching for a tag (act or actor) with the search box doesn't always show all the scenes that have that tag on them. There are also a small amount of scenes that are tagged with the male talent in them as well, which is both nice and disappointing. It's nice that they have the ability to do it, but it's disappointing that it doesn't look like they have any interest in doing it. I've always found it's one of the easiest ways to decide which scene of a particular performer I'd like to watch, and think every site that is large enough to have recognizable male talent in their scenes should say who they are in some way. You can favorite movies, scenes, and actors, but not studios or directors, as far as I can tell. And as has been mentioned by someone else recently, it would actually be a great thing if it could notify you that someone in your favorites list has a new scene uploaded. It would prevent a lot of having to dig around to find their scenes.
There were also a few smaller annoyances that I encountered in my time here. The first was that I could never get a single file to max out my download speed. I can max out at about 2.5-3MB/s on pretty much every other site I visit, but here I never got above 2, which was strange. Another thing was the lack of HD in most of the recent uploads. Generally, when they upload 5 movies per day, and only one of them is HD. This is acceptable when it's obvious that the movie was shot before the spread of HD cameras. But what I don't like is when I know that movies were shot in HD, but there is no HD version uploaded. This was especially noticeable on the Vivid premium channel, which was doubly annoying seeing as I paid extra for it. And even with that, Vivid was still worth it, since as far as I know Vivid's site doesn't allow downloads, while their Videobox channel does.
Just on the basis of the amount of content they have, I think every porn movie fan should join Videobox at least once, as there's bound to be enough content to keep you happy for at least a month. Whether you should join for longer depends on your tastes, and how much effort you're willing to put into finding content that you will like.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- 15,000+ DVDs
- Hundreds of Studios
- Incredible value
- Many popular niches served well
- Access to some hard-to-find titles
Cons:
- Too much reliance on compilations
- File quality hasnt kept up with industry standards
Bottom Line:
Im not sure if there is enough new here to qualify as a review rather than a comment, but I cant pare down what I wrote to fit the comment section. Please be gentle if you scold me I admit to being pretty long-winded here at PU.
VB is huge and continues to add four new DVDs per day. When you add the low monthly fee, the fact that they allow download managers and put no restrictions on downloads the site is an incredible value. People who prefer stolen porn over paying a low fee for a massive collection of virus-free porn must just enjoy stealing stuff.
Because of their size they tend to offer a lot of niche material. Take classics for example. I wouldnt consider VB a classics site because proportionally there arent that many, but in terms of raw numbers there are probably more classic titles here than on some specific niche sites. Same with a lot of other niches like BDSM and peeing.
This subjective, but I really like that VB is adding a lot more titles from Diabolic, Anabolic and JM Productions. These are hard to find as legal downloads so seeing them here is great. Theyre all great studios, though JM is likely an acquired taste.
Now on to the bad news:
I think the old phrase jack of all trades, master of none probably applies here. This is just my opinion, but I think that VB stresses quantity over quality as a lot of their uploads are pretty crappy. Yes, I realize that there may be a lot of people out there who like grade-C European porn and that they probably get mad when a title from a big American or European studio with good production values and known models is posted. So I wont harp on the fact that a lot of the uploads are low-grade titles.
I do think a valid criticism is the number of compilations they upload. I get the concept of compilations and I used to buy a lot of compilation VHS tapes and DVDs when thats how I got porn. That made sense. If I wanted a bunch of scenes with models in schoolgirl outfits doing anal I could but eight titles with one scene each in them or buy one compilation. That was an easy decision to make in those days. But that model doesnt apply to the current download concept. If all I want are those scenes with youthful models in anal scenes then I can just download it the first time it gets uploaded and I have it. I dont need it reposted a second, third or fourth time. The good news is that there are usually other members who post comments to identify that the scene is a repost. The bad news is that in some cases the scene might have been posted a half-dozen times, sometimes are recently as a day or two prior. The problem, in my opinion, lies in the decision to buy material from studios whose sole business model is to package compilations FROM STUDIOS THAT VB ALREADY BUYS MATERIAL FROM. I dont see why VB buys titles from studios like Pandemonium when all that studio has to offer is material that is already posted on the site. The cynic in me figures that VB does this in the relentless push to upload four titles per day.
My biggest complaint about the site is something that Ive just recently discovered. About six months ago I made a decision that many of you had made long before that: life is too short for low-res porn. I have no data cap from my ISP, external harddrives are relatively cheap and getting cheaper per GB so I download better quality scenes now than I would have even a year ago. But heres the problem with VB: they havent expanded their download options in years. The highest resolution they offer now in 75% of their files is 640x480 and thats the same that they offered back in 2005 when they started. Yes, I know they offer one HD DVD per day (on rare occasions they offer more than one HD per day) but that still leaves 75% of their titles with download options that fall short of industry standards. I realize that with a lot of older titles they are dealing with lower quality video to start, but they should still offer better choices than they currently do.
I usually add some of the extra channels with my VB memberships but Im not sure I will this time as the ones I do add Evil Angel, Vivid and Kink all offer HD on their own sites while most of the uploads on the channels offer nothing higher than the same 640x480. (I should add that Elegant Angel offers about half of the titles on their channel in HD but Evil Angel and Vivid offer none in HD.) One great thing about the channels is that the price is still pro-rated in your first month. There is one Vivid title that I really want so I can wait until the last days of my membership and add it for a low cost.
Even with its flaws, I have to admit that VB is still an amazing value. Whether youre joining for the first time or the 20th time, you cant deny that they offer a lot of porn for a low price. As much as I complain, VB will remain in a constant rotation through my memberships for the foreseeable future.
Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
Updated:
03-21-1307:59pm (Update History) Reason: Discovered that I could watch thousands of more titles using Roku by using their Private Stash option. Saves me the work of downloading a film.
Pros:
Available to Roku subscribers. Big plus to Roku users.
Can store video selections in private stash folder for viewing on Roku later. Opens door to all their videos. Awesome for me.
Huge selection of movies offering movies from dozens of well known studios.
Lots of variety in types of movies from MILFS to Young Adult.
Fast downloads. Better than other sites.
Excellent picture quality. Looked perfect to me.
New titles offered daily. Big plus.
Great fast forward and pause scenes. Better than most other sites. Big plus here too.
One of the BEST porn sites I subscribe to.
Outstanding value and never a problem.
Cons:
This is the one site to model after.
I can't think of anything they can do better.
Oh, maybe offer some exclusive content?
Bottom Line:
If you can only afford one porn site, this is the one I recommend. It offers the best value, some of the most content and has some of the most daily updates.
Picture quality is above average and hardly ever a problem. That's why I give it a 95, my highest score yet.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
Incredible amount of content with a lot of niches. Downloading usually goes very well and quickly with a good internet connection. They update with new material on a daily basis. A lot of their vids are HD which is really amazing considering the black and white porn I used to watch back in the Iron Age. One thing I really like is the ability to make short clips of your favorite parts of a scene, save it, and download it. They offer a non-reoccurring annual supscription which is easier to hide in the credit card records.
Cons:
The basic subscription has suffered. Instead, to get the really high quality porn actresses you are forced to sign up for separate channels for a monthly fee, such as Vivid, Elegant Angel, etc. I signed up for the Tranny channel for awhile but did not like the monthly fee record on my credit card. I wish they would fix this and offer a non-reoccurring package for everything.
Bottom Line:
Overall, I have been very satisified with VideoBox over the last few years. I have had none of the issues others complain about and have been able to download a lot of hot porn trouble free. I am a little worried about the direction they are headed with the separate channels/monthly charge.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Great value. I you join through PU you can grab this site for $12/month. I've also seen deals for as low as $8.
- 1,000s of videos and shoots.
- Good organization. There are keywords, stars, niche, and channels including content from KINK, Elegant Angel, Evil Angel.
- Roku support (although I didn't try this myself)
- Flow mode combines selected material into one viewing mode.
- Newer material is in HD
- New material everyday.
- Lots of variety you can find pretty much anything here. Although maybe not enough of it to make you happy.
- With all of this content you're sure to find your favorite girl.
Cons:
- Some content gets added multiple times because it appeared on multiple DVDs.
- all material is non-exclusive
- While they have a lot of content most of it is mainstream, if you're looking for the more niche material, you'll find it; but maybe not enough (see pro)
- some of the quality is really poor - there are some films that look like 70s 8mm
- no pix.
Bottom Line:
Great bang for your buck. To have access to this much material for about the cost of a movie ticket is stunning.
The organization is good enough that you can find what you want. I sort of had a hard time limiting myself down to a manageable list of want to sees, because of how much is here.
VB is one of the giants. If you've never joined it's well worth the cost to take a look. There will certainly be enough here that you'll get your money's worth. For me I join every few months to check things out, but don't stay around very long because it's just too much effort to find something to watch. It's like having a TV with 1000s of choices - it gets to be overwhelming.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
Decent price for unlimited downloads, multiple resolution formats, high resolution available, tons of content, various genres, steady server, good download speeds, very simple signup and cancellation
Cons:
Nothing is exclusive, terrible video support when they do make mistakes, declining quality of material, dated content, multiple re-posts and bargain bin compilations, for the price of the premium channels its often better to go direct, site ownership does not play to their strengths
Bottom Line:
This site's strength is that it has a ton of content with 5 new DVDs added per day. At the date of this review they have exactly 12,880 DVDs which is just massive in comparison to other sites. They also offer multiple formats and the download times are pretty fast. Most, but not all of the the major DVD distributors at least have some DVDs on the site.
The problem that frustrates me the most though as a long time off and on member from since 2008 is that they want to make the site something its not. They have spent a ton of time and money over the past 2 years focusing on changing a website hundreds of members have grown comfortable with instead of perfecting what they are good at (downloads) and improving and updating the content . They are trying to make an experience sort of like a Video On Demand (VOD) site which plays to bringing you slightly dated non-exclusive content but a massive selection, quick streaming, etc. But the fact of the matter is this isn't a VOD site, its a download site. I have a VOD site I use (which has more content, streams faster, and has pay per minute), so when I sign up to VB its to download a scene not to stream it.
But to this effect VB has hundreds of DVD scenes that stream correctly, but the downloads are broken. You can send 1000 messages or emails to the support team, and no matter what, the problem will not be fixed because they simply don't care in my opinion. They drew you in with a monthly membership fee, and they figure you can keep paying to watch it as many times as you want, even if the download is scrambled, garbled, noisy, has green frames, or is simply half length of what it is supposed to be when streamed.
What annoys me the most is some of my favorite video companies like Jules Jordan, Red Light District, Platinum X, and Lethal Hardcore have tons of scenes that I've wanted to download and they are broken. Lately EVERY single time they upload a "new" Jules Jordan scene most of the scenes are broken. The WMV HIGH (which is their highest resolution) has corrupted encoding, so you are left with only low resolution MP4. If I send a support email it is ignored. If I or somebody else leaves a comment about the scene being faulty in the comment box below each scene, an administrator purposefully and quickly deletes the comment within an hour or two. This says they know about the problem, see people complaining about it, but just don't care.
A main problem is their dated content that they simply keep reposting, sometimes within the same week they upload the same scene 2-3 times. There is an ongoing joke in the member comments area about a scene by the pornstar Kat on a pool table that has been uploaded by the latest count 10 times already in varying lengths.
This site is becoming less useful each month and I keep telling myself to stay away and only sign up for 1 month a year and download all the scenes I liked from the past year rather than waste money renewing each month to have them add 10 scenes I liked (though only 6 of them actually work). That's the way I'd recommend anyone else to use this site. Find a better VOD site if you just want to stream because they will have more content, and newer DVDs.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
+A gigantic library of content with over 76000 scenes.
+They update with 5 new movies each day.
+They have a wide selection of mnovies from many top studios.
+Multiple download options and some of the scenes can now be downloaded in HD.
+All scenes can be streamed online.
+Each scene is tagged with multiple keywords to help narrow searches.
+They offer multiple search option like name of performer, name of studio and keywords.
Cons:
-The site has a huge library but a good part of it is either junk or the same scene repeated multiple times.
-You can't dowload an entire dvd so you are limited to downloading only the scenes which isn't bad on a gonzo style movies but ruins a scenario driven movie.
-Their scene breakdown is sometime be badly done so you get only part of the scene.
-Too many improper tags are assigned to scenes and therefore the results you get in a serarch will be wrong.
-They have many studios to choose from but a lot of their library is not availabe.
-The quality of the vids varies a lot from studio to studio and it's not always good.
--Am I the only one who found very loud soundtracks on movies that shouldn't have had them?
Bottom Line:
*I know there are a couple of similar sites but this is still the leader when it comes to downloading porn dvd's and unless something changes then it will remain the leader for years to come. That's the good news but the bad one is that I was pretty disapointed with my last visit. I may be in the minority because of my porn tastes and expectation but a large part of the scenes I recently downloaded had some loud annoying soundtrack that masked the rest of the sound.
*They offer some great stuff and they keep adding new studios which in turn adds more movies to their already huge library but it would be amazing if they instead of adding new studios. They would instead concentrate on getting the entire library from their existing studios. I don't know the reason why they haven't done that yet. Maybe the owner of the library is asking for too much money but it would be nice if they got that done. Mind you if they do add older movies from existing studios. Then please don't add the annoying soundtrack because if you have to do that then don't bother because they certainly won't be seeing me as a futur customer.
*This is a great site for anyone just starting to surf for porn or someone looking for dvd's from dead studios because there is so much stuff here that a month will never be enough to find and download all that you want and staying long term may well be worth it. I find that it's a lot less worth it for a repeat member like myself because a lot of the stuff they added since my last visit was simply repeat stuff under a different studioo name, crap that I would never download or movies that has that annoying soundtrack added to it.
**I'm giving the site a much lower score than it might deserve but that's because I'm a returning customer who sees that they haven't fixed issues that were there the last time I visited and who's disapiinted in a good part of the content that he likes. The score would have been much bigger if I weas a new member.**
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
Vast quantity of material, at a bargain price.
No DRM, download limits, or pre checked cross selling.
New material each day.
Excellent way the pages are set out, you can see stills from the videos at frequent intervals.
You can cut each video to your own length starting and ending where you please.
Reasonably easy search given the amount of material, in many categories, although some on here say it isn't always entirely accurate.
Good amount of dvd's with models of different age, race, and size.
Cons:
Mostly low quality bargain basement porn.
Hard sorting the good quality from the bad because there is so much bad quality.
Slow loading of pages.
Mostly very homogeneous and mainstream, there's still a lack of fetish material.
Still relatively slow downloads, although a vast improvement on my last membership.
Obviously the site is limited by its niche. No original content, no photos, and download picture quality is limited to the original dvd quality, which mostly isn't particularly high def when compared to some modern independent internet porn producers.
Bottom Line:
I could have tried to cure cancer or find a way to feed some of the world's starving, but having thought about it, I decided what the world really needs is yet another VideoBox review. Just cut and paste from the hundreds (thousands?) of VideoBox reviews in the last four years all the pros and cons, and you could make up a great VB review without ever visiting the place. So why you then get reviews as bad as Pros - tons of videos, attractive girls, Cons - poor search, Bottom Line - what more do you want, is beyond me.
What truly puzzled me though, after I originally joined was, why did I find download speeds so slow it was impossible to stream most evenings, and downloading even a few clips, was excruciating and made waiting for the grass to grow, seem like a high octane thrill a minute ride. I hadn't heard about that in the reviews. A victim of their success? So many people joining they didn't have the bandwidth to accommodate them, but couldn't give a rat's arse anyway? Absolutely.
One or two reviews and comments did finally start materialising about those slow speeds. USA seemed okay but it looked like Europe and Canada had the worst speeds, though not everyone suffered. Receiving decent speeds seemed very much a lottery, and my speed was so bad first time around, membership was pointless. Maybe they were vicitms of their own success. Too many members? They weren't falling over themselves to help in customer services (unless it was falling over with laughter, as each email of complaint was automatically consigned to "trash") as there appeared to be no one there. VideoBox Customer Services must be an oxymoron, like military intelligence. I strongly suspect VideoBox is run by the British.
Since the sad demise of American Vice I hadn't joined any dvd site but had always been looking. I yearned to check out VideosZ, but on principal would not give my money to any place that tried to con me out of my hard earned money. I'm talking here about pre checked cross selling, and without it I would not have returned to VB. In fact all of the dvd sites have pretty much the same problems: They are either crap, or have pre checked cross selling. The idea of returning to VideoBox, a site in which I had previously found download speeds so slow, they might as well have been delivered one byte at a time by carrier pigeon from VB to my computer, was anathema.
Why on earth I ever returned to VB I don't know, but completely against the odds and defying my disbelief, I was gobsmacked when I did. My god I could download, I could actually stream some videos, even in the daytime! OMG this time I could actually view some videos. Maybe this time it is me being lucky, as I have recently seen a comment on PU about very slow speeds.
It too often becomes a chore sorting out the good quality from the bad because of the vast volume of awful material, and with the site slow to react when changing pages, browsing can become a painful and irritating experience. I took advice from some experienced PU 'ers and often looked by studio. Pink Visual and Lethal Hardcore are two of the better ones.
Although most of the stuff is very homogeneous and mainstream, you do at least find a large model range of ethnicity, age, and size. Many sites nowadays have models that are nearly all white, young, and thin.
Overall, this time around it was a positive rather than negative experience. VideoBox is no longer my least favourite site, so this time I consider 80 rather than 75 to be a fair mark. I may even join again.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Still the undisputed champion of DVD sites
- Huge selection
- Wide variety of niches
- Add-on channels at reasonable prices
- Channel prices are still pro-rated for your first month
- New studios being added
- Still adds five DVDs per day
- Excellent value
- Good download speeds
- Supports download managers with no timeouts
- Multiple viewing options
- VB3 is still not mandatory
- Prospective members can view the full site before joining
- The best alternative to pirated porn on the net
Cons:
- Over-reliance on compilations and low grade Euro movies
- Wont allow using the same username and password on rejoin
Bottom Line:
Before anyone gets mad at this, being my sixth review of VB, let me just say that I planned this as just a comment and then got carried away.
There isnt much more that one can say about VB that hasnt already been said here, but Ill try. The site offers a virtual porn mega-store with over 12,000 DVDs and the site continues to grow. Whats interesting is that the opinions and ratings here really run the full spectrum. My personal opinion on VB tends to run with those who are big fans. I join VB twice a year and probably will continue to do so as long as the site exists. I rank it high because what it does, it does well.
The site has hundreds of studios on offer and as the site grows they appear to be attracting more. I wish that some of the bigger studios offered more of their titles to VB but a site this size can only continue to grow as it brings sales to studios that need them. Almost any interest can be satisfied here with the only limitation being that as VB relies on DVDs they dont have some of the more extreme niches since those arent usually issued on DVDs. But if it happens to be available on DVD, VB probably has some titles in that genre.
VB continues to offer the DVDs in a variety of ways. Streaming is available and downloads are available in both WMV and MP4 formats. The highest resolution available on most is only 640x480 which is low by todays standards and those come in at 3300kb/s and 30fps. Only one DVD per day is offered with an HD option.
One thing that Ive always respected about VB is that they dont just rely on a few flashy preview pages and then ask for your credit card number. VB lets prospective members see the entire site. I wish other porn sites would follow this model.
VB still offers premium channels at additional cost. These are great value if you like those studios and VB still offers a pro-rated price through your first month. If you join in week two of your VB membership youll only pay half the price until both sites renew.
While Im a big VB fan the site isnt without its flaws. Ive said this before, and I remain convinced of it: one of VBs biggest selling points is also one of its biggest flaws, namely the addition of five titles per day. What person would argue against more porn, you might ask? One who prefers quality over quantity. With 12,000+ DVDs on the site no one would dispute that VB is the biggest player in downloadable porn DVDs. But to sustain that growth VB relies to heavily on compilations with re-hashed scenes and on low grade Euro porn. Ill admit that there is an element of subjectivity in this opinion, but I think Im also being objective when I say that having the same scene on the site in three or four different titled movies adds nothing. Thankfully VB members usually point out a repost so you can avoid it if you have it. As for the Euro stuff, while Im not a huge Euro fan I can still recognize that there is a difference between good porn and bad porn. They do have good Euro porn here, but they add a lot of bad stuff too. My recommendation to VB is to drop the five-DVD schedule and concentrate on quality instead. One or two quality DVDs per day would be fine and judging from many of the comments on the VB site many other members would agree with me. (I understand that the compilation issue isnt VBs fault since the industry cranks them out, but while they make sense in DVD format, they dont make sense as a download.)
One minor gripe is that the site doesnt let you use the same username and password when you rejoin. Id prefer that when I join with the same email Im given my usual name and password.
The most polarizing aspect of VB seems to be the VB3 interface. My opinion of VB3 is that it appears to be something dreamed up by the marketing people to lure in new members who are attracted to bright shiny things. If that works, thats great, because obviously VB needs members to continue to operate. It also appears that the technical people have some clout because the old site is still available and still fully functional. Whenever I go to VB the first link I click on is to go to the old site. I hope that option remains available, and I hope that if enough people also vote for the old site with a mouse click that the marketing exercise that is VB3 will be shelved.
Recently, other PU members have reported having low download speeds and even having downloads stop. I experienced none of that and Free Download Manager downloaded everything at the highest supported speed and never once had a broken link or a failed download. It may be that whatever caused that is now fixed.
The bottom line for me is that Ill continue to both support and recommend VB. It has a few flaws, but those are far outweighed by its advantages. With sites like VB no one has an excuse to access pirated porn or tube sites. VB remains an incredible value and I hope theyre around for a long time.
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