Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- This is the type of network us solo model lovers always wanted.
- 21 sites included and 20 of them are solo model sites.
- Pretty easy to navigate even though it’s cluttered.
- Downloads cost extra but it’s only $12 more.
- It helps if some of the models are favorites.
- Promo price plus downloads is around $20.
Cons:
- It’s professional models, nearly all solo sites of pro models have problems. Some of the models only seem a little invested in their performances.
- Really no reason to join for more than a month.
Bottom Line:
Back in the mid-2000s, I used to talk about how I wished solo sites, that were no longer updating, would join together and make a big network. Who knew time was the only thing I needed to get that wish? There are several pornstar networks with a dozen or two solo sites. Your preference will be based on which models you like the most. One of my favorites on Pornstar Platinum is GiGi Rivera. She is a good example of why this type of network never was very popular. She has a small collection of videos and photos and none of the videos come close to the level she performed at on other sites. She even looks uncomfortable.
There is the other side too, though. Angelina Valentina, a once semi-popular pornstar known for hardcore scenes. She is easily one of the best solo models I have seen and that’s saying a lot. Her site is so impressive, I’m going to include sort of a mini-review below of it.
The big name stars include Amy Brooke, Ava Devine and Ariella Ferrera. Those three have a combined 500+ videos and 500+ photosets. There are 16 more plus Angelina Valentina. I really don’t know how much of this content used to be on solo sites that required a membership for each site. I do know this is a great deal even if you pay for the downloads. I would even say joining without the downloads is more of a ripoff than paying for the downloads.
This network reminds me of why I preferred solo models for the first 10 years of my porn interest. Solo scenes show the model’s personality and it’s sometimes what makes the difference between models I didn’t collect and did collect.
Angelina Valentine’s site shows what most of us have figured out. Some models are much better in solo scenes. Angelina Valentine is one of those models who makes nearly perfect solo content. The plus with her is she was considered one of the better hardcore models of her time. This network has around 100 videos of Angelina and over 200 photosets. I’m just going to take a guess and say Angelina didn’t have 200 photosets from all of her combined sets. She is naturally seductive, which is nearly impossible to find in solo porn, but she pulls it off. Her site was enough for me to be happy with my money well spent.
We are getting a lesson in solo/hardcore porn differences. Most solo models are very young, barely legal and the producers and directors know that and like it. It shows the shy young woman struggling to perform for a stranger behind the camera. You put women like Angelina Valentine In a solo scene, she was already established as a pornstar and it shows. She effortlessly performs solo porn.
Each of the models is worth checking out on their individual site. There’s a lot of good content, some great and you get some great picture sets too.
It's a good site, but admittedly, there’s not much reason to recur your membership of go back to the site unless you just didn’t get what you wanted downloaded.
The network will make solo fans happy and let me stress this, not all the content is solo. There is a lot of hardcore mixed in, but it’s unlikely you’ll find these many solo videos and photosets of most of these models. That should be the selling point for potential members.
Was a member approx. 4 months prior to this review.
Pros:
Sexy Vanessa is a legend, who has been on camera for a very long time, doing mainstream movies before moving to the adult industry, for the luck of many viewers. She's a dream latin milf. An explosive redhead with a curvy body who likes to wear sexy lingerie, her scenes are very passionate and... I've always liked the fact that she loves to be spanked and french kisses. If you're into mature women and maybe redheads, her site is highly recommended.
Cons:
Her scenes with young men are sadly very few, altough she has done some very good one recently (the ones with Johnny The kid in particular).
And many of those into fifty-something women love that kind of content.
Seeing her with some eighteen-nineteen year old guy would be incredible, but at the moment as I've said, she has not done anything like that.
The lack of anal (a thing she did in the past) is another slightly disappointing thing.
Bottom Line:
If you're into curvy mature women with a fantastic ass, redheads, sexy lingerie, latin women and you don't care for the lack of anal scenes Vanessa is after many years, still amazing as she was when she started.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Lots of content
- Specific stars have loads of content, which is a plus if you're a fan of those particular actresses
- Allows download managers
Cons:
- Ads inside paywall
- Unpredictable video quality and sizes
- Download links missing for some sets
- Good PU discount but watch for additional charges at signup.
Bottom Line:
Pornstar Platinum includes some decent names as a part of the network and quite a bit of content overall. It is one of the most “porn star” of porn sites that I've seen. The recent stuff is a lot of Alura Jenson, Joslyn James, Savana Styles, Ariella Ferrara, etc. Big fake tits and lots of tattoos in general. Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that and lots of people probably even like that style, but know what you’re getting going in.
For an idea of the actresses involved as well as an idea of varying video quality, visit the preview page, click the “pornstars” link, and scroll down to “full list of pornstars.” There’s a bunch of them, but the “pornstar platinum models” ones at the top that you scrolled through to get to the full list are probably the most represented on the site. A lot of the “pornstar platinum model” actresses will be in solo clips, but they have a lot of overall content available on the site.
It’s also worth noting that many of the actresses in the full list only have photo sets available. That’s fine, but again, be aware of what you’re getting.
The downloads are named so that you can actually tell what you downloaded and who the actresses involved are. Thank you, pornstar platinum, for not filling up our hard drives with files named 4345_329_HD1080. It’s nice to be able to put a name in the search bar of the file explorer and find the actress you’re interested in seeing in your downloaded files.
Photo zips are often HUGE. Unreasonably so for a non-art, non-Metart style site with what usually amounts to a guy with a camera taking pictures of something while using the lighting set up for the video that was being filmed.
There were .mp4s and .wmvs available, but the wmv files I downloaded didn’t look that great. More specifically, they looked pretty bad. Many were enormous files (some nearly 1GB) and still blocky and tube-site-using-dial-up looking.
For that matter, the videos are huge in general. The mp4s will routinely be 1GB+ and the wmvs (which look pretty bad overall and I recommend avoiding them) are often 500MB-1GB. The scenes will be split into lower-quality five-minute style clips, and that’s a nice option for someone who may want an actress in a particular moment for 50MB instead of the entire 1GB file.
There are photo sets that don’t have download links for the set. Not a dealbreaker but it can be disappointing if you find a favorite actress.
Bottom line: Not a bad site overall, and a pretty good site with the PU discount, especially if you have any interest in collecting every single thing bit of content available for one of the actresses included in the network.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Large network
- 26 model sites
- 1389 videos
- Multiple options for downloading videos
- 1973 photo sets
- Photos available as singles or zips
- Many of the photo sets are large (500+ photos)
- Updates daily
- TBP/PU discount
- Supports download managers
Cons:
- Videos play automatically when page loads
- Photos are relatively low quality
- Too many enhanced models for my tastes
Bottom Line:
Pornstar Platinum Network is a large network of 26 pornstar sites. Several A-list models have sites here, like Amy Brooke, Tegan Summers and Trinity St. Claire. The model sites work great for narrowing your search for scenes and photos with a specific model but the main network gives access to everything. There are currently 1389 videos and 1973 photo sets uploaded across all the sites in the network. The network updates with one upload per day (either a video or a photo set) and these are spread across all the sites.
The network layout is far too rudimentary for its size. There is a search function available and you can sort by individual models through the sub-sites and sort by videos or photos.
The site started in 2009 but the videos uploaded then were pretty low quality. Some are as low as 480x320 and 1000kb/s. That wasnt good even for 2009. The good news is that the newer videos are a much better quality at 1920x1080 and 10,000kb/s.
The photos arent great quality whenever they were posted. Older photos are 1500x1000 and the newer ones are 1600x900. The photos are available as singles or zips and some of the photosets are huge with over 500 photos.
The site supports download managers and download speeds were good at all times. I had no issues with links timing out.
I cant give a definitive answer as to whether much of the material here is exclusive but I suspect that a lot of it is. I collect a lot of Amy Brookes stuff and I didnt recognize any of the scenes as ones I had already seen.
This is subjective, but I dont like fake breasts and there seem to be a lot of them on display here. Two of my favorite models, Amy Brooke and Trinity St. Claire, had enhancements and spoiled their appearances by looking unnatural.
Another pet peeve of mine is also found here: when you load a video page the video starts playing automatically. That hogs bandwidth and if you forget to turn your speakers down it can be a bit embarrassing. In my opinion, streaming is an option, not something that should be foisted on all users.
Speaking of downloads, there is usually the option of downloading a WMV or MP4 file. My preference is MP4 but I downloaded a few WMV files to compare them. The few I looked at were 1920x1080 but had a very low bitrate of less than 2000kb/s so they looked badly pixilated even on a 24 monitor. My advice is to watch a few to make sure you can live with the lower quality before downloading a bunch of WMV files.
Overall Im sitting on the fence as to whether Id recommend this. There are a lot of good things about the site, like its size, regular updates, photo sets and videos, but on the downside the network isnt well laid out and a lot of the older material is low quality. The deciding factor for me was access to a few specific scenes at the low TBP discount price. If you find yourself in that same situation then youll at least go in knowing that the network is less than perfect.
(I should add that one of the sites in the network is called Fukks. It seems to be a stand-alone site that is only affiliated with the main network. It requires entering a username and password, but my main network login wouldnt work.)
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
+ Exclusive content (28 photo galeries and 29 videos @ 16th of october 2010). Videos are updated once a week.
+ Ariella replies to emails and seems to be a very friendly person.
+ As a bonus you get all the content inside GetNaughtyGirls.com when you joined her site
Cons:
- The diary doesn't update very often.
- She has also two other pages with content which is not on this site.
- Quite expensive for the low amount of content.
- Not a very well-designed site (quite minimalistic site navigation).
Bottom Line:
If you are a fan of Ariella Ferrera, this is a good site. I joined the site because she is one of my favorite porn stars and i'm not disappointed - anyhow, i would have expected more.
So if you are not a big Ariella-fan there may be just too little content. This may change in the next months (updates seem to come regularly), but i'd recommend you to wait for more content and maybe a revision of the actual site navigation which is functional, but very minimalistic.
The videos are available in only one format (some .wmv, some .mov, some .mp4), but the video quality is good.
Picture sets contain about 50 to 100 pics each which are of medium quality.
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