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iPink Visual Pass
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Reply of
Wittyguy's Comment
I just checked the tutorial on their site (reachable from the Support page) and it looks they have made an effort to optimize the layout for the iPhone. I don't see the point in watching porn over such a small screen either but iPhone has a 480x320 resolution already and I've enjoyed sites that have videos at that maximum resolution; if someone wants to grab some quick porn this site doesn't seem so bad. I like some of the Pink Visual content, anyway.
For completeness, here's the forum thread you mentioned:
https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_th...ad.html?threadid=520
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05-15-09 11:41pm
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Sugar Paradise
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lk2fireone's Comment
I suppose you're aware that TBP has numerical data from 09/2008 and info on video resolutions (74 photo shoots and 40 videos).
I'm not a member but all the Last-Modified headers for image updates on the home page are from the same date on 11/2008. It doesn't necessarily mean there haven't been more updates since then: it could simply happen that they haven't changed the tour for a while.
I found some samples following the webmasters link on the home page and going to the news section.
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05-15-09 01:46pm
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Karlie Montana
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Drooler's Reply
As I said, I got the feeling not much care was put into this site's design. Regardless, if Karlie Montana made regular use of the features at hand, fans of hers would get their money's worth.
For instance, that exact content engine is used at Jessica Drake but jessica drake seems to be working on her site several times a day (blogs, travel pictures, comments, Wicked Pictures movie stills or whatever). The site is as ugly, cumbersome and download-unfriendly as this one but her fans have good reasons to check in on a daily basis.
In any case, I'd still recommend the trial to Karlie Montana to anyone who's had a thing for the model at some point; I feel her "nutty" personality is one of her main appeals and it shows a lot here.
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05-12-09 11:26am
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Karlie Montana
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69.0
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Official site of US porn star Karlie Montana.
-Great looks and interesting personality.
-40+ videos. Up to 720x480, 1400 kbps, 10 minutes average.
-Also available in medium and low resolution. All streaming only.
-Lots of behind the scenes content: interviews, goofing around.
-75+ galleries. 50%, 1024x700. 40%, 2000x3000 or higher.
-Mostly solo (non-sex or masturbation) and some girl-girl.
-Model interaction: internal messaging, blog, audio blog, chats.
-Users may add comments to photos, videos, blogs, etc.
-Current update rate: 2 videos and 4 photo galleries per month.
-Fully working trial membership. |
| Cons: |
-Videos are flash streaming only: no download option.
-Picture saving nightmare: no zip files, right click disabled.
-Save images only at maximum resolution and one by one.
-It feels like a cookie-cutter social network profile.
-Site is unpolished, ugly-looking, sloppy design.
-No member forum.
-Blog and audio diary are erratically updated (once a month).
-Non-original content seen a thousand times (Matrix Nudes).
-Huge watermarks. 2 watermarks on non-original photos.
-One member chat: back in Jan/09, still announced in April.
-Chat was at Flirt 4 Free: free but requires credit card.
-Password problems: Blocked 2-3 days out of every month. |
| Bottom Line: |
This site is unusual. Even though it was launched less than a year ago, it looks extremely old and unpolished. Social network profile is perhaps the best way to describe its home page. There's some emphasis on the sections you'd expect from an adult site (videos, pictures) but they've also crammed into it blocks for blog, audio blog, list of likes/dislikes, calendar, announcements, comment wall, send a message to the model and so on. Members don't get a profile, only the model does.
It looks like the model is in charge of updating the site through some program but Karlie Montana was making little use of it apart from releasing photo galleries and videos at a fairly decent rate. Two months could easily pass between blog entries. The audio blog looked interesting but she didn't make much use of it even though she only had to make a phone call to some recording system. The chat was specially a letdown: after promising it for months, when it eventually came you had to sign up for free at Flirt 4 Free but they asked for your card details. I passed. The only chat was on January 29; it took place but the announcement to "join Karlie in her first members area cam show!!" was still there in April.
Content is hard to categorize. First picture sets were masturbation or girl-girl sets from other sites: Matrix Nudes (seen at many other sites), Misha Online or Micro Babe; that amounts to around 20% of the current content. The rest might be exclusive but there's a lot of different things, usually much tamer and not always of sexual nature: behind the scenes from shoots for other companies, non-nude or topless-only sets in old ugly uncoordinated outfits, blurry self portraits pointing the digital camera at a mirror, making faces to the camera while going out, etc. Resolutions also vary a lot between updates.
Videos fit somewhat more what you'd expect from an adult site. Most include some masturbation, usually filmed by Karlie Montana herself. There are also some Matrix Nudes videos seen all over. But there are also rarities like snippets from a several days car drive with Charlie Laine and her dogs from LA to Wisconsin. Or Karlie Montana touring an hotel suite or her apartment. A 4 part interview while driving (released over a month). If you like her personality, those rarities certainly have some interest.
Trials to other solo sites from this company are pretty inexpensive. I accessed some of them and they are very similar: they share the content engine and have the same ugly ancient-looking design with slightly different equally hideous color combinations. Given the social network flare of all the sites, I feel it would make sense to offer a single membership with access to all the sites so users could interact with all the models.
As it is now, big Karlie Montana fans might enjoy it, maybe even enjoy it a lot, but the site is moving at such slow pace and in so unclear direction it's hard to recommend it to those who only have a casual interest in her. |
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05-11-09 02:33pm
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Mofos Network
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pornfalls's Comment
Ricki Raxxx at Can She Take It.
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05-10-09 02:24pm
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Premium Pass
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Reply of
nostromo's Comment
One thing you could try is going first to:
http://exclusive.premiumpass.com/Login/login/
Then, paste in a new window/tab the access key's direct URL:
http://www.premiumpass.com/accesskey.php
In my tests, the image was the same that was displayed in the login page. If you see the 6 letters, you should type them at the login form.
If this doesn't work, check other browsers like Google Chrome or Opera. Although, in my experience, if things go wrong in both IE and Firefox, it's likely some antivirus / firewall program in your computer is interfering.
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05-10-09 01:37pm
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Brazzers
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94.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-2,000+ exclusive scenes over 25 sites. 2 new scenes daily.
-Lots of well-known porn stars. Elaborated setups, scripts.
-Video formats: MP4, WMV, MPEG. 640x480, 1200kbps.
-Also available in IPOD format and 1 or 5 minute segments.
-Simple flash streaming but easy access to scene key points.
-Very good site navigation and information display.
-Decent search engine; sortable by date, rating, views...
-130 possible keywords, 5-6 keywords per scene.
-Links to other scenes with the same star at scene home.
-Community focus: forum, social network, user comments.
-Easily suggest a scenario or request a model.
-Interaction with some stars through forum or their profile.
-List of 3-4 upcoming scenes with trailer.
-1,000 images per scene. 600x900. Zip files.
-Offer to join Mofos Network at a discount price. |
| Cons: |
-Limited variety in female model ethnicity and body type.
-Lots of big fake boobs and tattoos. Big on all site names.
-Videos are not widescreen. Somewhat low bitrates.
-Session timeouts without closing browser.
-Short-lived download URLs. It's futile to query downloads.
-Performer names are sometimes missing from scene.
-Much emphasis on cock size. Small male talent pool.
-Unknown billing provider. Canceling was simple, though.
-Some old scenes have broken video downloads.
-Lots of spam in scene comments. |
| Bottom Line: |
Brazzers caters to the big fake boobs getting fucked by huge cocks niche extremely well. Looking at the top 20 stars with the most scenes, all have huge boobs but the only one with natural tits is Gianna Michaels. Perhaps it's because of the very similar makeup but, looking at a list of scenes, I sometimes have a hard time telling apart the stars from just the preview. They all look the same to me.
Site design and navigation left me a great impression. The look is consistent throughout the site and everything seems to be two clicks away at most; I wish, though, that they solved some of the metadata glitches: why on Earth do they have only the guy name in some of the scenes cast list?
Flawless search engine, favorite options, detailed star profiles, plenty of keywords, ... I confess I ran out of space when listing the pros. I found specially cool the request feature: you get to make 10 performer requests per month by the simple click of a button. I don't know how much they'll listen to it but it felt good.
There's also a lot of community options. Not only the extremely active forum (a forum should be a must for any site) but they also recently embedded a sort of social network (a la facebook or MySpace) that lets users and, more importantly, porn stars get a profile, message between them, upload photos and videos, leave comments and so on. Didn't try much of it but, since several porn stars have been active in the forums for a long time, I suppose this Brazzpace / Facezzers might eventually get some traction.
It's weird that Brazzers doesn't release videos in widescreen format and still goes with 4:3. There was even a recent survey in the members area where more than 50% of users answered that they'd rather have videos in Widescreen HD; almost 70% demanded widescreen regardless of quality. Funny thing is 20% answered they didn't care about format as long as they got their porn. |
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05-09-09 11:27am
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Club Sophie Dee
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05-09-09 11:13am
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surferman's Poll
Now I really don't mind although I was revolted the first time I saw it.
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05-09-09 05:14am
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Kayden 420
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exotics4me's Reply
Interesting info on 420. Thanks for sharing. I confess I had never come across the term until I tried to find more about the model and the 420 Wikipedia article showed up in a Google search. I'm guessing it's widely used only in English speaking countries. I'm certainly not a weed expert so I mentioned it in my comment in case someone as clueless as me was intrigued by the site name.
Regarding Kayden, I browsed her MySpace blog and I got the impression she had somehow been "expelled" from Suicide Girls a couple years ago for reasons she didn't say or I didn't see.
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05-08-09 11:31am
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Kayden 420
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80.0
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No Review.
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05-07-09 01:56pm
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Kayden 420
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05-07-09 01:53pm
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I F Myself
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05-01-09 07:59am
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Whale Tail 'N
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Monahan's Reply
Yes, I meant that even though you can join the network through this site, Whale Tail 'N specific content (thongs and jeans) is scarce. You can see Porn.com, All Adult Pass or Mega Site Pass as a humongous bonus for Whale Tail 'N or Whale Tail 'N as a tiny no-longer-updating part of Porn.com, All Adult Pass or Mega Site Pass.
Thanks for the info on your download speeds. If I had gotten those speeds, I'd probably stayed longer than I did.
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04-28-09 12:49pm
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Whale Tail 'N
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Monahan's Comment
Isn't this site part of Porn.com or Mega Site Pass? Some PUs have been complaining about download speeds from this company (myself included).
What I remember from when I was a member recently is that Whale Tail 'N had around 20 scenes only and about half of them were available in any major DVD site. Site was no longer updating.
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04-27-09 02:47pm
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Download Pass
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Reply of
messmer's Comment
Download speed problems also happen at Porn.com (site from this same company). It's a pity that their standard reply seems to be always that the problems are on the user's end.
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04-22-09 11:48am
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Porn Pros Network
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Reply of
The Clyde's Review
Aren't they releasing at least some of the newer videos at 720x408? I'm not a member but I noticed that some of the previews for the most recent scenes were at this higher resolution.
Dead-on cons: I also wish they limited the fake cock scenes to a single site. It would give the network a whole different appearance.
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04-20-09 11:46am
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Mofos Network
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Reply of
Monahan's Comment
JFYI, they've added the Avy Scott scene this week. It's a scene with Lexington Steele at Milfs Like It Black. Looks like they create the pornstar profile too early before the scene gets released.
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04-18-09 04:26am
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VideoBox
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Balibalo's Review
Good review. I believe you can, in fact, get 6 DVDs daily if you sign up for the Vivid and Evil Angel premium channels. You have to pay three times the regular price, though. Have you tried them?
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04-18-09 03:47am
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Mofos Network
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Reply of
Monahan's Comment
Regarding the Carmella Bing scene, it's at Day With A Pornstar, a site that has recently been moved to Brazzer's Pass. Scenes are still listed at Mofos Network but all links are dead.
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04-12-09 02:14pm
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Reply of
Drooler's Reply
I'm not sure which it is, but there must be a reason why PU staff decided reviews and comments would expire after two years and no longer count towards site score. If that user-contributed content has lost part of its value, user points and badges earned from it should also lose part of its value.
What's more, reading what Khan said in the forum, it looks like the original idea leaned in this direction. In fact, I was half expecting to start losing points soon, since I wrote my first reviews about a year ago. This is the forum topic:
https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_th...ad.html?threadid=603
When, at my current rate, I eventually get the hardcore badge around the end of 2009, after more than 18 months of reviews, I will feel like those karate black-belt 12 year old kids exotics4me mentions in his post. And I will keep it for as long as PU exists, even if I were to stop contributing after that. If the original PU idea had been in place, there's no way I could ever get the hardcore badge.
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04-12-09 10:44am
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Wittyguy's Poll
Absolutely. Reviews expire after two years for a reason so points earned for those reviews should too. It would make sense, though, to still have a counter of points earned over the years.
The four badges that depend on contributions (talk back, comments, pollster and hardcore badges) should consider only contributions during the last two years for the same reason.
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04-12-09 01:53am
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Porn.com
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73.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-4,500 DVDs total. 4 new DVDs added daily.
-40+ exclusive reality sites. But only 3-4 updates per week.
-Both real photos and screen captures from DVD scenes.
-Video high resolution is Divx (xvid codec): 576x432 2000kbps.
-Also available as WMV (480x360 1000kbps) or low resolution MP4.
-Cool and pretty accurate "find similar stars" features.
-Decent metadata: female and male cast, production date.
-Simple search engine but seems to be pretty accurate.
-Free tour shows everything you will find inside.
-Download Pass and Mega Site Pass under a single membership. |
| Cons: |
-Very low speed: rarely over 100 Kbytes/s; often much less.
-Download managers, futile: links die fast and are non-resumable.
-DVD scenes renamed to custom scene description in search results: no info on what DVD they come from.
-Featured star hides DVD info.
-Inconsistent page design: featured vs search vs non-featured.
-Too simple streaming: play, pause, skip are the only options.
-Some of the reality scenes may also be found at DVD sites.
-Like most DVD sites, there's a huge overlap with other sites.
-Somewhat small images: longest axis is only 1024px.
-ZIP files have always 25 pictures regardless of gallery size.
-Site design looks outdated compared to similar sites.
-Download Pass or Porn.com watermarks on all videos.
-Gay and transexual content intermixed in search results.
-Case-sensitive CAPTCHA login. Sessions timeout in minutes. |
| Bottom Line: |
First time I heard of Porn.com was probably when the domain sold for 9.7 million USD in 2007. I came across it some time ago while browsing for discounts at TBP. I guess people who type Porn.com or just Porn directly on their browser's address bar are the main visitors.
This site tries to be a lot of things but, in my humble opinion, they get it wrong more often than right. Like their new picture search engine: looks pretty cool and well-thought out but, in the end, you get 1024px big photos and zip files with only a sample of the gallery. In general, I feel they should rethink how they display the information in search results and porn star pages.
Porn.com was painfully slow for me. What's worse, you get only one chance to download a video: once you start downloading, the URL is instantly dead for retries so resuming a paused download is not possible. On top of it, querying downloads is neither an option since URLs change every hour or so. Streaming speed isn't good either: you must hit pause and wait for a long time if you want to avoid eating up the buffer. There was an entry at their official blog on 03/20/09 entitled "Porn.com gets porn fast" [sic] that contained a very true sentence: "I urge you to free your porn from slow downloads!!". Roger. Canceling my membership was quite easy.
Another thing I didn't like about Porn.com was the Featured Star option. Good side is they often get some exclusive footage and video interview; bad side is that, once a star becomes featured, her page gets an unusable layout where there's no information on what DVDs her scenes come from, just those absurd scene descriptions that seem to be a trademark of this site. To top it all, streaming interviews of featured stars are non-pausable and, because of the slow speed, it's impossible to view them but in short unintelligible bursts.
Despite all this, if they solved the speed issues (speed for American users is likely better than those I got in Europe) this would be a recommendable site by its sheer amount of content even though, as in any DVD site, there's a huge overlap with what other companies offer; average production date seems to be a bit older than usual and there's not a lot of very recent content but this could easily be a pro for some.
Some of the reality scenes aren't that exclusive since they have been released as DVDs and are available at any big DVD website (Whale Tail 'N, for instance). What I could see of Brother Undercover seemed an interesting politically incorrect twist on the interracial genre. |
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04-11-09 05:19am
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American Bi
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04-10-09 11:32am
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Download Pass
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Reply of
spacenick's Comment
I had very similar problems with Porn.com, a site from the same company. Existing reviews for Porn.com also report download issues. URLs are very short-lived there too, so queuing downloads is pointless.
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04-08-09 02:57pm
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