Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
No download limits, DRM, or regional discrimination.
Upmarket glossy settings instead of the usual cum stained casting couch.
Different locations plus professionally produced and lit videos with some good angles, makes the material look different to the usual mass produced porn.
Good speeds on streaming and download.
Access to one of the most well established, and professional porn studios, giving access to a good variety of new and archive material.
HD videos look really good.
Zipped photos.
Consistent updates, albeit of different age and quality.
Very little filler material.
Their representative did take the time to appear at PU and answer concerns about cancellation problems.
Easy login.
Cons:
Cancellation not confirmed, took a number of messages and emails to confirm cancellation.
Awful navigation and search facilities.
Old and new, high and low spec videos, all mixed in together.
Clips from same dvd mixed up over different sites.
Some videos don't play.
Only mp4 available for download or streaming.
Too many fake breasts.
A little less material than on big sites.
Bottom Line:
This place is a delight and pain in the ass in equal measure, what you get though is quality stuff. Private is yet another dvd site masquerading as a network, so I use the main home page as base, then use the various sites as a filter and search facility. I am still finding some great material, but with no meaningful category search facilities, it is hard work and time consuming being a member. Browsing can be frustrating and no fun, if you spend more time searching than viewing.
On the main home page videos are not listed in chronoligical order of update, although scenes are, and so are the scenes on the individual sites, but updates are a mix of new and old material, so you get old 480 quality, mixed with 720 and 1080 quality, and scenes from each dvd are split up across the network on different sites. This has to be one of the most irritating porn sites to browse on the internet. Everything is mixed up together like an Eton Mess (created when a student dropped his dessert on the floor resulting in everything being mixed up. That sums up navigation).
For instance, if you go to Private Castings you will find a selection of videos with names like Guns And Rough Sex, Sex Auditions, and Cum To Daddy, split up into clips, but you wont find them all on the same site. For example, Cum To Daddy has a clip on Private Castings, but the other scenes from that video are to be found on both Russian Teen Ass, and Tight And Teen.
To me some of the older 480 clips don't look at all good, despite some glamorous and luxurious location filming, directors often can't resist changing from one angle to another, like you're going to get bored watching a beautiful girl getting fucked from the same angle for more than ten seconds, and once again there are far too many gynaecological closeups, and fake breasts.
Things could be so much more enjoyable with a little thought and organisation. Or maybe there is thought and organisation behind it all. Of course you don't think a company like Private just leaves it to chance do you? They've been around since 1965, and don't get to be in business this long by leaving things to chance. You think piracy is putting these guys out of business? I don't think so. They pre date internet porn, they predate video, they nearly predate me, but not quite.
Ah yes, video tapes, remember those? You'd make the effort, to go to one of those video shops, and fork out a lot of money buying the genuine article from some distant relative of the Krays, who'd only recently got the jail bars off his arse, but it was worth it, you finally had the real thing. Then you'd get it home and put it in the video machine, and wait, and wait, and wait...then finally, finally, after half an hour, it got to the good bit, and then it was over. WHAT!? That's as bad as my sex life, that can't be it!
But it was, and you didn't even have a remote control to forward wind. Ah, but they knew how to frame a shot, and they were actors, and it was all produced so well, but you just wasted an hour and a half of your life.
Porn is now vastly improved so I'm being a little harsh in judging Private who has to compete with the number of dvd's on the likes of Video Box or Videos Z, and the number of sites on 21 Sextury or Teen Mega World, and are attempting a sleight of hand at trying to make it look as though there is more than there really is. I think there's enough anyway, without the sleight of hand, even though the older material is far inferior in picture spec, though not in production. Making searching impossible and time consuming means longer memberships.
Same goes for the cancellation problem. It maybe designed that way for a reason. It took a number of emails and messages to get them to confirm my cancellation. One of the problems was their internal service did not recognise my membership password, so it was impossible to cancel using their links. Some of those missed cancellations are going to slip through "accidentally" which means more money.
The newer vids look very impressive, and if I was going to compare them to anything it would be to those early higher budget porn movies shot on film. Picture content is varied. Some clips have only 5-10 pics, some have over 100, and some have none at all, but they are of good quality when they exist, and can be downloaded in zipped form, or browsed through on the same player as the videos.
Private has lasted this long, mainly because they've maintained a high standard, and given people what they want - action, and done it with a style and professionalism that few others have. The videos don't all look the same as they do on some networks, due to a number of different directors working in different locations.
If not for the cancellation problems and navigation I would have stayed longer and scored higher. Just before I was due to post this review, the Private representative appeared on PU to answer the cancellation concerns. If that improves I will join again.
Good to hear a response and also good to hear there will be improvement on cancellations. If not for that and the navigation I would have scored higher. Review will appear later today when I have time to edit out 1000 words or so. You have some great material, and the niche sites at least allow a way to filter or search by category. If cancellation improves I will buy another membership.
I will be interested to hear whether that cancellation goes through. I eventually had two emails assuring me my membership was cancelled, but at the time of cancellation received no confirmation. I was not impressed. They should make it easier, as they have good material and don't have a bad reputation - yet. I received a confirmation of membership but no mention on how to cancel. The only way to cancel seemed to be to go on their site, and follow the link, but for the cancellation to go through I had to sign in with my password which was not recognised. Not good practice.
Agree with the above two. I get tons of emails from them but at a fiver a throw I'm happy to get the emails because it means very substantial discounts. There is a link at the bottom of the emails to unsubscribe.
You had exactly the same problem I had. I cancelled about 4 days after joining so had plenty of time to get a response. I emailed them and left messages through their internal service totalling five times and eventually got a response. When I checked under "existing requests" my password hadn't been recognised. It seems just like you I wasn't recognised as a member so couldn't cancel.
I'm currently compiling a review now, and one of the things I note is a company like this doesn't get to stay in business this long purely by chance. The clips are mixed up for a reason. It's to make things less easy to browse and download quickly and also to make it look as though there is more than there is. Same thing goes for not acknowledging cancellation. I'm sure a number of cancellations don't go through and don't receive complaints, which makes them more money.
In my emails I did say I would be cancelling my credit card and complaining about fraudulent deductions if another monthly payment was taken. It took them 48 hours but they got back to me, answering two of my messages. They offered me a 30% discount to keep up my membership but it had been such a hassle to cancel I didn't take them up on it.
Sadly I couldn't find any magazines, but you can download zipped photos. Choose the pictures option at the top of the viewer. At the bottom of the viewer, below the line of photos there's a download zip option. Right click and save as.
Thanks for the warning. Conmen are everywhere, and this sort of thing gives online porn a dirty reputation. We know there are many decent customer oriented ones around who are happy to give you a good deal at a fair price. Places like this hurt the good ones. Let's hope this warning helps others.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
A large collection of professionally shot dvd's.
An unusually good selection of pics for a dvd site.
Excellent variety of download and streaming facilities, including HD, with good download speeds.
No download limits or DRM.
A variety of action across the vanilla porn range.
Discounts available through TBP/PU.
Many attractive girls in a variety of shape, size, age, and colour.
Easy log in, only requires username and password, which is remembered.
Cons:
Pre checked cross selling
Not easy to cancel, it took a few emails to get them to confirm my cancellation.
Regional discrimination.
Clicking the back button takes ages to get a response.
Pictures not zipped.
Far too many tats and fake breasts.
Duplication of clips across the network.
Bottom Line:
I usually boycott any site that practices regional discrimination or pre checked cross selling, but I joined up because of the special £5/$5 offer by email, and we all know by now the price of my principals is a fiver. What I expected to find was a dvd site along the usual lines, and Devils Film IS mainly a dvd site, but it is more than that, mainly due to some very unexpected high quality pictures.
The mainstay of the site is videos, which are high standard and professional on all fronts, being well photographed, lit, and edited, with fewer really awful bottom of the barrel cheap dvd's you sometimes see on the big dvd sites. The high spec material looks great even on streaming. Older material (by that I mean clips with the ripe old age of two years) are of lower quality, but I still found many to be well worth viewing or collecting.
I found acceptable speeds for both downloading and streaming, apart from the one irritation of the back page button taking ages to respond. As usual I did find things a little slower in the peak UK hours of late afternoon and early evening, but the main default option of Web HD 540, still worked well. Streaming looks great, especially on more recent videos, with a picture box allowing you to move backwards and forwards to any part of the clip almost immediately, with no buffering. For HD 720 and 1080 it was a little more difficult to maintain a constant picture.
Web HD 540 is the default streaming option, with the ability to stream higher spec videos in HD 720 or Full HD 1080. If you are used to HD, and prefer it, you will notice the difference between the older 480, and newer 720 or 1080 videos, but I think there is some worthwhile stuff in the lower 480 spec, and don't forget this is mainly a dvd site, so is therefore limited to that spec. The presence of good quality pictures makes you forget this is mainly a dvd site and should be judged as one, but also makes you wish they would shoot scenes for online, in true HD.
The fantastic photos here caught me entirely by surprise. They are done very professionally, like most things on this network, with some very good softcore posing followed by hardcore, along the same lines as Teen Core Club. What quality of photos you get for each scene however, is hit and miss. Some are great photo shoots with a great selection of photos, some only have a few, some are merely screenshots, and some have no photos or screenshots at all. The one big downside is they have no zipped photos. so you have to capture each one individually.
I quite liked the layout of the home pages, with attractive pictures showing the content of each clip. You can choose to view by clip, or filter to show each dvd, then look at each clip from that dvd. Many dvd's appear more than once on the sites. I found no videos or dvd's which weren't listed on the Fame Digital site, so I used that as my main base, using the individual sites as a kind of filter. Material is not exclusive, but updates are regular, with some of them being shot some time ago.
There's a good variety of material across the network: cream pie, anal, double anal, lesbian, tranny, gang bang, orgy, and many more, so although it is material from a single producer, there is enough variety to keep up interest. There is a good variety of shape, size, age, and colour of women too, although most of them do have that professional look. If there is any tendency here, it's towards anal.
At the time my membership ended they had 3764 dvd's on Fame Digital. Downloads were generally available in wmv or mp4 with older clips coming in at 480 and newer ones at 720 or 1080. I read bad things about their search facilities, but didn't use it. I didn't join for anything particular and was happy flitting about the place. Logging in is easy as it only requires your username and password, which is remembered across the network. I would consider the place to be consumer friendly if not for the dirty tricks. It took quite an effort to get them to confirm my cancellation. They practice pre checked cross selling and regional discrimination, so this is not a place I would normally visit, but for a fiver it was certainly worth it. If not for those dirty tricks I would be happy to pay for several months' membership.
Good comprehensive review Wittyguy. Place looks good apart from the tats, trickery and fake breasts. I've never been a member but might be tempted if they did away with the cross sales.
Thanks admiral, I think I will. It was those negative comments that sort of put me off until now, but the quality and speed is a lot better than I expected, and also agree about those on location shoots compared to the usual couch.
Well there's a coincidence! Would you believe it I only signed up about four hours ago. It took me a few minutes to realise this was yet another one of those places that isn't really a network, but same as you, I very much like what they offer. Every place has its own style, and I quite like what I see here. Very good and accurate review.
I am also much preferring higher end video quality. It may be the new computer and screen, but I am noticing a lot of difference in quality nowadays. I have found the streaming quality to be good and the download speed fast - so far.
Warning - this organisation does not register cancellations
A warning to anyone who may join a site from this organisation - they do not appear to register cancellations. For the second time in as many months, I had to go to live support to cancel my membership. They told me I did not receive a cancellation confirmation, because my cancellation had not been registered. I would suggest you cancel very close to joining, because it may well take some time and effort to cancel once you have joined.
I took up their $5/£5 discount offer even though they have pre checked cross selling and regional discrimination. The renewal is significantly higher, so I'm willing to steal at steal prices, but not willing to pay a fair price for reasonable content from organisations who are going to try and trick or cheat you. I can't argue with the content, and I can't argue with live support, who although it took some time to find someone available, were efficient once I contacted them.
I suppose the lesson is, if you are going to pay for membership to an organisation with questionable practices, you will have to be prepared to put in some time and effort to avoid being ripped off. Buyer beware.
I agree with the comments which are more thorough than most reviews. It is a vid rather than pic site, but the material is very professional. The price of my principals is $5 or £5, as I took up another offer from this network, this time for Devils Film. They have regional discrimination as well as pre checked cross selling but I took them up on their offer to steal material at a steal price.
I cancelled the next day because I know how tricky they can be. I received no confirmation either when I cancelled or when I followed up with two email queries. I had to go to live support who weren't there the first couple of times but when I finally got through they said I hadn't received a confirmation because I hadn't cancelled.
If anyone joins this site I would suggest you go straight to live support if you don't receive a cancellation confirmation email, because this is the second time I have joined a site for the $5 offer, cancelled and never received confirmation. Live support on both occasions sent me a notification within minutes.
No it's not your fault admiral, it's the fault of these organisations once again. It's not designed by chance, it's designed to deceive. This type of behaviour, is robbing people of money, and causing a lot of bad feeling towards porn networks. This sort of thing doesn't happen when you visit tube sites, and doesn't happen when you download for free. They are scaring and chasing away the few of us left who do wish to pay for our porn.
For me it's mainly principal, although any site that has pre checked cross selling is not to be trusted as they are trying to trick customers. I say "mainly principal" because I did take up the offer at the ridiculously cheap $5 price, which is basically giving it away. If not for the trickery I would view 21 Sextury in a different light, and would have been a member for many more months of the year.
I still think of this network as a place that has excellent material, but these new members are a tough crowd.
What I meant to say, and should have said, was the overall quality of today's material is superior to the overall quality of older material, but for me, Buttman's movies still stand head and shoulders above almost anything that's ever been produced. I think the reason is although he focuses on the butt, he doesn't forget to include the whole girl. Too many of the others turn it into a gynaecological show.
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