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Reality Gang
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07-01-09 12:19pm
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Club Red Light
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llaurell's Reply
Laurel, thanks for the reply.
I'm considering joining but would like to know - as a Mac user, what are my download options? DRM'd WMV will not play on a Mac (no matter what type of license) and often I find that the alternative formats on other sites are poorly encoded.
Can anyone give any info on this? Thanks!
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05-06-09 08:52pm
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New Sensations Network
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rome476's Reply
Yeah, it would be nice if they identified what DVD the scenes are from. Again, I didn't even consider this in my review because I don't really care about the DVDs - as far as I'm concerned they might as well distribute their content entirely online (though they'd probably want to boost the quality a little)! In fact, I wish other studios would do this - Digital Playground, for example. They do not allow downloading at all, only streaming. I joined their site once, dumped it immediately, and have never gone back. But that's a different review :)
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05-05-09 04:52pm
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54
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New Sensations Network
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Reply of
host2626's Reply
I had noticed that, and as someone who doesn't often buy DVD's, this is just fine by me. I guess I didn't think of it as non-exclusive, since it is exclusive to the company (New Sensations). It's still not content you're going to get on any other site. But I guess if you do buy their DVD's, then yes, this site is redundant. Thanks for pointing out the omission.
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05-05-09 04:46pm
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My XXX Pass
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insomniacxxx's Comment
Haha, I see now that TBP also says "beware of pre-checked cross sells." Lesson learned - always check TBP FIRST!
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04-28-09 05:19pm
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56
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My XXX Pass
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04-28-09 05:00pm
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57
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Hustler HD
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Reply of
ace of aces's Comment
Nope, not worth it at all. Despite what TBP says, the video downloads DO HAVE DRM.
From the video help page:
Windows Media downloads are for PC users only. Sorry this format is not compatible with Mac/Apple OS. DRM downloads are stored on your hard drive so you can download a movie and watch it later. These videos can only be viewed as long as your Hustler subscription is active. If you cancel your subscription you will no longer be able to view these movies. Windows Media Player will check for an active subscription every few days so you may have to log into the website to play the movies.
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Incidentally, I've also encountered quite a bit of "This movie is currently not available in the selected format/bandwith speed."
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04-15-09 03:43am
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Review
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New Sensations Network
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90.0
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Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ A decent amount of EXCELLENT content
+ Downloadable scenes
+ Newer scenes are very good quality
+ Downloadable image sets (both stills and screenshots)
+ Some absolutely amazing girls
+ File naming recently updated to include movie title! |
| Cons: |
- No really good central spot for finding updates
- Older scenes have no full-scene DL
- Older scenes difficult to download even clips from
- Somewhat repetitive content
- WMV only |
| Bottom Line: |
This is an excellent network. The few flaws are just really not that bad, in my opinion. Take the schoolgirl stuff for example. Yes, it's tired, and yes the scenes all go pretty much exactly the same. But it's sort of tried-and-true, and when someone like Dani Cole comes along and does a schoolgirl scene... I'm all over it. Or Renna Ryan. I have almost every scene she has released, and her scene from Naughty College School Girls (released on Jizzbomb) is HOT.
It can be easy to miss scenes if you don't know how to really dig. If you go to the New Sensations home, you'll see updates from the whole network. But only three, so if you don't check for a few days, you're likely to miss something. And if you use the model dropdown on that site to search for a model, you get results from across sites. But not ALL sites. So it's very easy to get confused, and to miss content. Also, some models appear more than once under different names. My advice: if you have a girl you're looking for, find out what her aliases are and look for them too. On every single site.
That being said, quite a few of the sites are crap. Just old, non-exclusive content that's hardly ever updated. I didn't include this in the cons because really, they give you plenty of good content to make up for it. The other sites are essentially bonus content that i don't like. No big deal.
A note about video quality: For newer videos, it's fantastic. It shows on my system as 888x480. For some reason the picture is slightly stretched horizontally on my system (Mac, using either MPlayer, VLC, or QuickTime the result is the same) but if your player allows you to force 16:9 it's perfect. This may only be on a Mac, have not tested in Windows. Unfortunately, the only file format option is WMV. While this is not a deal-breaker, it's highly irritating that so many content providers opt for the proprietary format designed for Windows. There are just so many platform-neutral formats, I don't get it. So if you have Mac, you'll need to download some third-party components, and it's still kinda crappy. But oh well.
For older videos the quality gets lower. And you don't get that full download link. In order to download you actually have to open a popup for each clip, which prompts you for a password (which as far as I can tell only works in Windows), wherein you will find a streaming video (if you're running Windows) and a link to download that clip. I have been banned from the site a few times for failing at this password prompt a few times in a row so if you're on a Mac, you may find the older videos to be a pain. Again, this would be easily remedied but like many adult sites, this one is clearly designed for Windows. Newer videos do not have the download issue.
In conclusion: This is an awesome network and highly recommended. It's not without its flaws, but i am perfectly happy to accept those flaws and keep renewing my registration. |
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04-13-09 05:41pm
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Porn Pros Network
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80.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Some great content and hot girls
+ Full video downloads with no DRM
+ Downloadable image sets
+ Decent navigation, fully searchable etc
+ User ratings for episodes and girls |
| Cons: |
- Lots of ridiculous fake porn
- Sleep Creep
- Obnoxious ads on member pages |
| Bottom Line: |
A good site with a few flaws, no deal-breakers in my opinion.
Some of the content itself is awesome - there are a few really great episodes here and there. Of course, you have two options for finding it: either go one by one to each site looking for updates, or go to the main Porn Pros site and wade through a mess of garbage to find the good stuff. What do I define as garbage? Well I don't think it's very sexy to see a guy bust into a scene out of nowhere sporting an enormous rubber dong and spray fake jizz all over an "unsuspecting" girl's face. That's not hot, that's retarded. Maybe once, I'll have a good laugh and move on. But as a theme for a whole site? MULTIPLE SITES? Really??? Obviously this is just my opinion, since the episodes have similar ratings to the other sites. Equally not hot is watching girls get molested in their sleep. It's kind of creepy (yeah I know, it's supposed to be, hence "Sleep Creep") and it's also dumb. Seriously, if you bang a girl in her sleep and she doesn't wake up... she's drugged. That's called r@pe. AKA NOT FUCKING HOT. I don't find it offensive because it's just too dumb to take seriously. Still, I don't want to see it, and I don't want to pay for it. This severely reduces my score for this network.
That issue could be at least partially resolved by letting me filter out sites I DO NOT want to see in the main content listing. That would be pretty cool. But again, this is not a deal-breaker, I just get sick of seeing it. And they keep introducing new versions of this stupid crap. So apparently someone out there likes it.
As for the ads, easily resolved by using AdBlock Plus. Sorry guys, if you insist on showing me ads *in addition* to charging me money, at least make them reasonable. Not animated crap that follows you when you scroll. But again, easily remedied on the user side.
A note about the user ratings: It's a 5- or 10-star system, can't remember now. But you can rate individual episodes and you can also rate the girl. This is nice, because (for what it's worth) you can give a girl 10 stars and give her CavemanSleepR@peWithRidiculousFakeCock episode 1 star.
Damn. Cavemen might actually be funny. |
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04-13-09 04:57pm
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Review
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All Reality Pass
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70.0
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Some AWESOME content
+ Downloadable videos with no DRM
+ Variety of niches, all of which have good content |
| Cons: |
- Video quality is BAD
- There is a download quota, which does not seem to be documented (correct me if i'm wrong)
- All videos have the same file name (video500.wmv or something equally useless)
- WMV only
- No zipped downloads for photos |
| Bottom Line: |
This site really does have some great content, with tons of hot girls. I'm VERY picky (though maybe in ways that don't make sense to anyone else!) so of course as with any site there are still relatively few episodes I like, but the ratio is MUCH higher than most comparable sites. Tragically, the video quality straight up sucks. It hasn't changed in quite some time. It used to be tolerable, when monitors were smaller and their competitors' video quality was comparable. But on my 22" flat screen, these videos are just not very enjoyable. Watch a clip from New Sensations, or 18Eighteen, or any of the "HD" sites, then switch to a video from one of the sites in this network. Then be sad.
I have joined and canceled this site many times. I keep hoping they'll up their video quality to keep up with the times, but it's just not happening. I have so many videos from this site on my hard drive because I love them, but I never watch them because the quality just sucks. And time after time, I re-join the site with fingers crossed, only to be frustrated and remember why I always cancel my membership. It doesn't help that all they offer is WMV, but this is pretty standard. I'm not sure why - last time I was on a PC, MPG files worked just fine - WMV on the Mac is kind of crappy and requires third-party components. I guess I'll never understand the decision so many content providers make to go with the proprietary format over the many standard formats that work everywhere. But it's not a deal-breaker, just annoying.
What is a deal-breaker is the combination of low quality video and a download limit. I understand the need to save costs on bandwidth, but the simple fact (for me anyway) is that it's not worth it to download a limited amount of badly compressed, low resolution video, no matter how great the content is. Until these issues are resolved, I have to say "tragically not worth it." |
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04-13-09 03:47pm
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Cezar Capone
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Reply of
uscue's Comment
The full episode downloads sometimes fail for me, which sometimes (but not always) uses up one of my download allowance.
The 1-minute clips are lower quality (and in my opinion the full episode quality ain't that great to begin with). They're also... one minute clips.
I really wanted to like this site, but i highly recommend passing on this one.
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04-13-09 02:08pm
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Cezar Capone
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60.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Some hot girls
+ Some girls who only have a few scenes out, always nice to find a Rebecca Lane clip i didn't know about (though in her case specifically, the scene isn't that great)
+ Full episode downloads are h.264 in an mp4 container, instead of proprietary wmv format preferred by most sites - much better experience on platforms that aren't Windows. |
| Cons: |
- Full downloads limited to 2 per day. This apparently bumps up to 5 after a month. Too bad I'm not sticking around. The alternative is 1-minute, low quality chunks. Sweet.
- Download quality is not so great. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, as H.264 is capable of very high quality at small sizes. The resolution is shown as 720x480, which usually looks better than this.
- Oh look, a bus driving around picking up "random" girls. Why do we need another one of these?
- The ratio of "keepers" to "skip thru & delete" is VERY low.
- Bad navigation. No links to other scenes from a specific model, no alphabetical list, no search function (despite a menu item which says "Browse and search episodes and the girls").
- Downloads often fail for me, often recorded by the system as a download, which means half my limit is used up, and I get nothing. I have a fast and reliable connection, but even if this is somehow "user error", this is one reason limiting to two per day sucks. |
| Bottom Line: |
Well first of all, it's telling that I had to *repeatedly* edit down my list of "cons" in order to fit it in the space allotted. That's a BAD sign. Although there are a few girls on here you don't see much of elsewhere, the scenes aren't that good (in my opinion) and the video quality isn't that great either. Add to that bad navigation, unoriginal content, and a completely ridiculous download limit which is often erroneously used up after one download, this ones a no-brainer. Not worth it at all. There are just too many similar sites out there which do not have these problems to bother spending your money on this one.
I will note, at the time of this review there has been a banner up for at least a week stating that a new member's area is "coming this week." I'm not going to give them grief for not being timely, I actually know how it is to run a website! I'm only bringing this up because some of the more technical problems may be addressed by this, once it goes live. Also, I'm not sure why they have two versions of this entire network (Cezar Capone and NerdPass) but these are exactly the same, so this review applies 100% to NerdPass as well. |
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04-13-09 02:05pm
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Review
63
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Teen Hitchhikers
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60.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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02-24-09 05:25pm (Update History)
Reason: Clarifying DRM situation
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| Pros: |
Some excellent content
High quality on newer videos |
| Cons: |
DRM on older videos
Older videos which USED TO BE DRM-free have become DRM-protected
Older videos don't play on Mac OS
No full-scene downloads |
| Bottom Line: |
This would be a great site, but unfortunately it's ruined by bad DRM. I can't even play the older content on my Mac. That's bad enough, but what's worse is I've been a member in the past and it didn't used to be this way! They actually went through and broke all of their videos. Sorry, DRM = dealbreaker.
UPDATE: The older content does have iPod versions which seem to be DRM-free, and play on a Mac just fine. The quality is not that great though. Also the one-minute clips (also low quality) will work. Note that NONE of this is mentioned anywhere on the site. The technical requirements documentation doesn't say anything about it, and it even has a section dedicated to Mac browsers.
This does make one wonder: if you're going to release non-DRM versions of your content, why bother releasing it with DRM as well? The sites seem to have been acquired by Spice TV, so my assumption is that this is just another misguided attempt by a big network to control how its paying customers can use its content. They should at least be up front about this before asking you for your cash... |
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02-19-09 07:30pm
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64
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Score HD
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80.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Excellent content
Some fresh faces
Excellent quality videos |
| Cons: |
HD full episodes almost never successfully download. Individual smaller chunks usually download fine.
Browsing can get confusing as you move between properties (18Eighteen, Score2Go etc).
Trailers start playing automatically on each page - I'm not a fan, would love a way to turn this off.
Overall feels unfinished - ad banner with placeholder copy, never received a receipt, etc. |
| Bottom Line: |
Will be an awesome site and well worth the price once they work out what seem to be growing pains. |
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12-25-08 06:30pm
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