I agree that money rules. The owners/operators must think that, even if some people complain about regional pricing, that regional pricing brings in more money than if a standard fee was charged for all members.
I pay more attention to the positive and negative factors in the reviews. If there is a serious problem in the company that owns/operates a site, normally PU/TBP will not list/review that site.
720p seems the best size. I don't see any benefit by watching 1080p in terms of clarity or detail, and 1080p files are much larger in size, so they take much more space on the hard drive.
Fine review. Captures the main points of the network.
You write: "If photos are available, they’re well hidden because I didn’t see them. I don’t normally download photos either so I have to admit that I didn’t look that hard."
Each video at TMW usually has a matching photoset.
To find the photoset, go to the page of the video that you want to see, and then find the hot link that says: "Watch Picture Gallery >>".
Click on that hot link, and you will be directed to the photo gallery.
The photo gallery has nice-sized thumbnails of all the photos in the gallery.
There is also a zip file to download the entire photoset. Only 1 definition offered for the zip file.
Many of the photosets are worth keeping, especially for the more attractive models. The photography is not up the standards of MetArt or MPL Studios or even Amour Angels, but many of the photosets are still OK-to-nice quality.
I think a trial should be 3 days, with full access. But I'm not sure if I even subscribed to a trial.
Wait, I did subscribe to a trial membership, one time that I know of. But that was because I didn't un-check a pre-checked membership offer when joining Devils Film. And I never even used that trial membership once. I tried to cancel it once I realized what happened, within minutes of being signed up. But I didn't get my money back.
So check for those pre-checked membership offers, or you will get stung too.
Until a few years ago, it was almost all pix. But then I started collecting vids as well, and like Denner states, vids require lots of hard drive space.
Pix have lots of advantages over vids, in addition to the space requirement, time needed to watch them, simplicity of mind needed to enjoy them, etc.
I'm beginning to think vids were created by the Devil to occupy restless hands.
I'm curious. You say your connection maxed out at 11-12 megabytes per second. Is that 11-12 MB/sec? Or is it more like 1.5 MB/sec (because of the conversion factor of bits to bytes)?
My max download speed is about 1.3 MB/sec.
How much are you paying for a connection that fast? (If you don't think that's too personal.) I have a connection through AT&T, and that usually runs around $45/month. I shudder to think what a faster connection would cost. Especially one that was maybe 9 times faster than mine.
Great review, as usual. Did you notice that I did a review of Tricky Masseur about 5 hours before you posted yours, except I called my review "Rub A Teen"?
If you haven't read my review, I suggest you do so. Because you posted a comment that you were thinking about joining the Rub A Teen site.
I think that would be a serious mistake, a waste of your money for that site.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Easy login. Username and password. No captcha.
-Epoch is the billing company.
-You get a confirming email on signup. Which is starting to get rare, for some reason. At least some of the sites I've joined in the last year, I've gotten no confirming email. How much does it cost to send an email? But why bother, since if the customer forgets his username or password, or has some problem about cancelling his membership, that's his problem, and in the meantime, the site can continue charging him for his membership.
-I'm seeing so many lovely young models at many different networks/sites. And this network has some truly gorgeous young models.
-Default viewing option. Select your favorite viewing option on how to view a scene, and the site will remember it. Not sure how useful this is, seems more like a gimmick than anything useful.
-No DRM.
-No download limits.
-Download manager works. I use DownThemAll.
-Good download speeds. I regularly get 1.3MB/sec, which is my max download speed.
Cons:
PROS (continued):
-Membership price recently reduced to $17.87/month. I'm not sure how long that price reduction will last.
-Videos have the date they were posted to the site.
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CONS:
-Pre-checked offer at signup has to be unchecked, or you will have a $1.00 1-day trial membership to some site, that automatically renews at $38.57/month. So if you miss the pre-checked offer, you will be paying $38.57/month until you figure out what's happening.
-Get thumbnails advertising other sites on the member's pages. If you paid to get inside, do you need this advertising thrown at you? But many sites are doing it.
-Large watermark bottom right side of videos.
-Small site. Only has 20 videos so far.
-19 of the 20 videos were previously posted at Tricky Masseur (part of the Teen Mega World network). There was one video at Rub A Teen that I did not match up. But that's probably because I didn't want to spend the time going through each video at Tricky Masseur.
Bottom Line:
If you've been a member of Teen Mega World in the last 6 months, and you examined the Tricky Masseur site of that network, then you've probably seen all or almost all of the videos that are at Rub A Teen.
The Rub A Teen site offers more choices in the video definition than the Tricky Masseur site. For the videos that are at both sites, Tricky Masseur offers a low, medium and high definiton download. Rub A Teen goes one better: a low, medium and high definition, and a higher definition. (The high definition is 720p, the higher definition is 1080p.)
The Tricky Masseur site often has subtitles to go with the foreign language the actors/models speak. The Rub A Teen site videos do not have the subtitles. But once you have read the subtitles, you realize the words have little meaning, so the absence of subtitles is not a problem, because what the actors/models are saying is basically just noise. Teen Mega World is a huge network, with a lot of great-looking models, and a lot of hot hardcore videos. It's certainly worth joining the network at least once, to look through their tremendous archive of hardcore videos. Tricky Masseur has 93 videos. It's basically an archive site, having added only 1 new video in the last 7 months.
The Rub A Teen site has 20 videos total. 19 of the videos were already posted at Tricky Masseur (part of the Teen Mega World network).
The difference in file size between the 1080p version and the 720p version is huge:
For example, for a video with a runtime of 29 minutes 30 seconds (the Laura video):
Rub A Teen Laura video:
The 1080p MP4 file size is 2.08 GB.
The 720p MP4 file size is 1.05 GB.
Tricky Masseur Laura video:
No 1080p version is offered.
The 720p file size is 999 MB.
How many people are going to spend 2 GB per video of hard drive space?
Most of the videos are between 25 to 30 minutes in runtime.
So if you are going to keep the 1080p version on your hard drive, you are allocating around 2 GB per video. And if you are a collector of videos, you will be buying lots of hard drive capacity to store these huge video files.
Actually, I don't know why the file sizes at Rub A Teen are so large.
At Diesel network, for instance, they give you 1080p video for a 30 minute runtime, and the file size is 686 MB. That compares to 2.08 GB at Rub A Teen.
Comparing the bit rate of the 720p files (of the same video): Rub A Teen Total bitrate = 5134 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second Tricky Masseur Total bitrate = 4736 kbps Frame rate = 25 frames/second
Comparing the bit rate of a 1080p video, with a completely different 1080p video: Rub A Teen Total bitrate = 10136 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second
Diesel site Total bitrate = 3199 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second
To increase the bit rate by a factor of 3.2, you are increasing the file size from 686 MB to 2.08 GB.
I don't know how these technical details play out. But as far as I can tell, you can't really tell the difference on a computer monitor that is 20+ inches in size between the 3199 kbps and 10136 kbps files.
Maybe on a large-screen TV monitor, you can tell the difference. But you are going to be spending hundreds of dollars on hard drives, as cheap as they are today, if you are going to collect videos that are 2GB in size.
If you enjoy the erotic massage niche, then I suggest signing up with the Teen Mega World network, where you get one site (Tricky Masseur) that focuses on that area, with 93 videos. Plus you get over 20 other hardcore sites that are mainly boy-girl sex, some solo vids, some lesbian vids.
Basically, I think it makes little commercial sense to build a site that is a clone of a competitor's site. But I guess that the owners of Rub A Teen decided that the erotic massage niche was popular, and this is what they came up with as an inexpensive way to do it, because they are just buying/leasing some of the same videos that Tricky Masseur bought/leased.
For people who don't know about Tricky Masseur, then the Rub A Teen site can be a nice introduction to the erotic massage niche.
Thanks for the fast response, and for the correction.
Sometimes our PU members don't get the facts correct.
And it's nice to know the site is still updating, for people who might decide to join the site.
Appears to be in the style of X-Art, Joymii, Sex Art, 18 Only Girls, Young Legal Porn.
High quality photosets and videos. This is a new site that started late 2012. So the site is still small. The girls are slender white teens or early twenties. Very attractive.
Currently about 65 videos.
Currently about 47 photosets.
It makes a difference how you get to the preview page of this site.
If you use the hot links from PU/TBP to get to this site, you find working preview pages that will give you a list of the models at the site, plus samples of the videos and photos.
If, instead, you use http://www.babesnetworkDOTcom/tgp/?nats=16babes.41.2.61.0.0.0.0.0,
you get a preview page that shows thumbnails of videos. That page does not lead to any listing of models, or to any sample of videos or photos. Apparently, they put the page up on the Internet, and haven't bothered to finish the rest of the preview pages/links at that URL.
The thumbnails do lead to a signup page, so I thought the preview pages were broken. Until I stumbled across the PU/TBP links to the site.
I chose "I watch it all", because it's all supposed to be the good stuff. However, if any of it goes on too long, or it gets boring, I fast-forward to the next section. And if that goes on too long, or is boring, I fast-forward again, looking for something interesting, exciting, watchable, or plain not boring.
But there are plenty of scenes that turn out to be boring from beginning to end. So where's the good stuff? It isn't there.
I've been a member of MetArt more times than I have of Erotic Beauty. But as far as I can tell, there was no reason to start or continue Erotic Beauty except as a marketing decision to make more money from 2 sites instead of 1.
There is, as far as I can tell, nothing to set Erotic Beauty apart from MetArt. Nothing in themes, nothing in explicitness. Any of the Erotic Beauty sets could easily be posted in the MetArt site. And vice versa.
MetArt has far more content than Erotic Beauty. The same high level of photographic excellence. The same softcore teen subjects. The same setup of 3 levels of definition for each photoset. And many (probably most) of the models that appear in Erotic Beauty are also found in MetArt.
As far as I can tell, even though both sites use many of the same models, the photosets of the model that appear at one site do not appear at the other site. Each site, as far as I can tell, has exclusive content at that site.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-High end, glamor style photos of teen and early twenty models.
-Easy login. No captcha.
-Long time before site timeout.
-No DRM.
-Access to live cams.
-Good download speeds. I usually max out my download speed of 1.3MB/sec.
-Easy site navigation. There are a lot of photosets, but it's fairly easy to look through the site to see what you like.
-Each photoset comes in 3 definitions: low, medium, high.
-Download managers work. I use DownThemAll, which works here.
-If you are a member, you can get a discount to other sites in the network through their upgrade option.
-Content is exclusive.
-No watermark on their photos.
-You get a large number of photographers contributing to this site. I think they are
all basically high-end glamor style shoots, with not a large variation in styles, but you get to see how different photographers use this approach.
-The models are clean. Almost no tatoos. Very little piercing.
Cons:
-Cons are basically minor. If you like high-end teen softcore glamor photosets, you will probably like this site.
-No videos. Photosets only.
-A few models have more than one name. So if you want to set all their sets, you need a bit of luck to find them.
-The site advertises itself as using amateur models. I think that's misleading. You get a large number of models who have appeared at different porn sites. I think a better description would be that these are attractive young girls that you would like to see more of.
-You get a model bio for each girl, but the bio is very short, with few details.
-Site advertises "Over 10,000 Breathtaking Beauties". I doubt that. MetArt, which has
been around about 6 more years than Erotic Beauty, advertises 2,730 models, and MetArt
updates about 4-6 photosets per day, compared to 1 per day for Erotic Beauty. So Erotic Beauty might have 1,000 models at the site, or less.
Bottom Line:
Site statistics:
Number of videos: 0
Number of models: hundreds+
The dimensions of the recently posted photosets:
low definition: 680 x 1024 pixels
medium definition: 1361 x 2048 pixels
high definition: 2000 x 3008 pixels or 2832 x 4256 pixels
You have to join each site separately. You can't join one, and automatically get access to another site in the network. But as cjd2004 pointed out, there is an option to join all the sites in the network at once at signup.
Erotic Beauty used to be called Metmodels. I assume they changed the name to further distinguish itself from MetArt, so people won't automatically compare the two sites to see which site offers the better value.
Erotic Beauty is actually like a smaller sister of MetArt: MetArt offers up to 6 new updates per day. Recently they have been offering around 4 updates per day. Almost all the updates are photosets, but they usually offer 1 or 2 new videos per week.
Erotic Beauty offers 1 new photoset per day. No videos at the site.
MetArt has a huge collection of models and photosets (and videos, but the videos basically have little value, because they are almost all boring, in spite of featuring lovely young models in the nude).
Erotic Beauty has a large collection of models and photosets, but much smaller than what MetArt has.
If you haven't been a member of either MetArt or Erotic Beauty, the better value is obviously MetArt, because of the greater amount of content at MetArt. But if you've already seen MetArt, and haven't seen Erotic Beauty, and if you like the MetArt content, then Erotic Beauty is definitely worth a visit, because you will find similar content in the photosets at Erotic Beauty.
Almost all the models are in their teens or early twenties. Most are Causcasian. You have a pick of attractive to lovely or gorgeous girls to look at. This is a high-end teen glamor softcore photo site. It doesn't get much better than this. MetArt, Erotic Beauty, MPL Studios, Femjoy are some of the best in the field.
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