Seems odd, as the sets that are part of the loyalty sites usually have "available in 30 days" or whatever stamped on them, which these sets - I have found this with several other sets like this - don't, they all seem to be from DVDs as best I can tell, so my guess is they haven't been added to the site yet or they will never be downloadable. Either way, disappointing...
It seems as though some scenes on this site aren't downloadable, perhaps because they are only on DVDs?
For example, if you go to the Mia Stone section and click on either "Unusual Best Man", "Mia's Memories", or "Romance on the Beach" there is nothing there to download - pictures or videos. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me... This is not an issue of the site not being available yet, as the scenes are all listed as Pix and Video.
If they are only available via purchasing the DVD, why even post them on the site?
This site is clearly above all others at what it does - at least in my opinion - gorgeous natural women with fantastic photography.
Just wondering, however, does anyone else think maybe they are taking the picture resolution too far? I mean 3000x4400 seems a tad excessive. A zip file of one of the photo sets I downloaded in high was over 500 MB.
This seams especially odd considering their "mid resolution" sets are usually better quality than the vast majority of other sites.
I think I might have used jettis before, but I don't recall ever having seen the other two, and it just seemed weird to me that the billing was listed at 3 different locations - I've never seen that before.
It bills trough epgbill, however the actually transactions are processed by another company and for some reason a third company - jettis - sends the confirmation. They might be reputable, but I had never heard of any of them before...
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Decent Download speeds
-Download managers work
-Some of the girls are attractive
Cons:
-Small collection, some of which appears to be from another site - jailbaitvideos - and these videos are particularly sketchy as some of the girls look aweful young (although they don't have nudity they are just dancing around)
-Bonus sites are equally crappy or streaming only
-Trial give you access to practically nothing, parts of 4 scenes that aren't downloadable
-Expensive
-Crazy false advertising, I saw very few of the girls shown on the home page in the site
-What I consider unethical site behavior, see me comment
-No pictures except screen caps of videos, although it would appear from the front page that there are many pictures
-Video quality is mediocre to poor (1500 kbps typical)
Bottom Line:
I thought this site sounded sort of interesting, however it proved to be pretty crappy and very misleading both in price and content. I strongly discourage anyone from joining this site. I tried to come up with some other pros, but I must admit I couldn't really think of any.
Very sketchy site, I recommend you look elsewhere.
If you join outright the price is $30, if you join as a trial (which is totally worthless by the way - gives you access to partial samples of the 4 most recent scenes) and upgrade they charge you $40. Nowhere on the site does it say this, when you click the "upgrade" button it imediatly processes the transaction at that price. Billing companies don't appear to be very reputable. I strongly discourage membership.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Good sized collection - over 650 models
-Models are quite attractive, most of the popular euro models area available here
-Excellent download speeds (1.5 MB/sec)
-Download managers work
-Photosets downloadable in zips
-Video quality pretty good: 640x480, 2084 kbps
-Good variety of content
-Good camerawork on photography and videos
-Photo quality is acceptable, but not the best - newer stuff is 1280, older stuff worse
Cons:
-Orginization could use some improvement. Not really sure what the purpose of listing the DVDs is, as all the scenes I saw on the DVDs were listed under the video section of that model anyways. A search function would be nice.
-I found some of the sets to be a bit heavy on the makeup, which is not really my thing - I prefer the more natural look
-Could improve photo and video quality
-No bonus sites
-A little pricy
Bottom Line:
A pretty good site, definitely better than most. Certainly worth joining, even if like me, you aren't a fan of overly madeup girls as there are still plenty of good scenes.
The content is mostly solo and lesbian, in the video section there are:
50 Boy/Girl scenes
210 Solo scenes
440 Girl/Girl scenes
(The sort function doesn't work great, so these totals might be a bit off)
Although the boy/girl scenes they have are pretty good, if your main search is for boy/girl I might look elsewhere.
As Exotics has said many times, and I agree, this site has some of the best lesbian content on the net.
In summary, pretty much a top tier site that most people would probably find worth joining. If they improved video quality and picture quality a bit this site would probably be even higher on my list. If you are a fan of hot euro models, and especially lesbian content, you won't be disappointed here.
I edit some of the bigger files I download to take out action I don't really care for and make the file size more manegeable sometimes. I use Cyberlink Powerdirector, which is not free, but I edit home videos and stuff too and I find it robust enough and relatively easy to use. I think it is around $100.
And Denner, encoding speed is based primarily on your processor/graphics card, although I have found that Powerdirector works faster on my computer than Adobe Premiere (which is terrible, no one should buy this - has audio sync problems) and Windows Movie Maker. I haven't used any Tmpeg products since college, so can't compare the relative speeds of PD to the product RB is using.
Good review OneMan, although I would say if they re-encoded some of their older stuff at higher resolution, I would totally join again, some of their older scenes are great, it is a pity they are such shitty resolution.
Hey man, good comment on Hustler's site. I totally agree with most of your sentiments - This site could be excellent if they put some effort into it. I would note that I didn't see any scenes that were downloadable in parts, perhaps they got rid of this recently...
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Huge archive of videos
-Many videos actually have stories, albeit most are pretty stupid, it is nice to see this amongst all the drop your pants and fuck kind of sites.
-Many attractive women
-Pretty good download speeds, although somewhat variable given time of day (1MB/sec max, 700KB/sec average)
-Download managers work
-Pictures are pretty decent quality, newer photos are about 1500x1000
-No DRM anymore
-Access to barelylegal.com as well, although a lot of the content on barelylegal is also on Hustler.
-Good quality photography and videography
-Good price with TBP discount
Cons:
-Navigation is mediocre. You can sort by star, dvd title, and other things, but with an archive this large it would be nice to have more sorting options and a search ability.
-Navigating for photosets is particularly annoying, very difficult to just browse.
-Video quality is mediocre to poor. The best I downloaded was 640x360 1700kbps. They even commically call some of the videos of this ilk "HD".
-Video quality for older DVDs is poor, as low as 700kbps in highest quality.
-No zips for photosets
-While download managers work, they can be a bit glitchy as the path to files change, so you can only really queue up a few files
-Some videos aren't available for download, most are, it seemed like most of the videos that couldn't be downloaded were newer additions
-Some videos were a bit glitchy - 2 scenes in one, the ending missing, etc.
Bottom Line:
I think this site gets somewhat of a bad rap, as historically it was a horrible site with streaming only options and terrible navigation. I think it is much better now than it was in the past (even though the only change I noticed was getting rid of DRM). Maybe I just have a soft spot for Hustler since the first DVDs I ever bought were Barely Legal DVDs.
If they improved the video quality, added some better navigation, and provided zip downloads of photosets this would probably be one of my highest rated sites.
The archive is quite large, 830 DVDs on Hustler, and 346 on barelylegal. Even with some overlap, that is a nice sized archive.
I particularly enjoy the style of many of Hustler's videos and enjoy that many of them have a story - which seems less and less common these days. They appear to also have a large magazine archive, although I didn't have the patience to sort through it.
I would definitely recommend the site for a month, especially for $20/month. Even with the mediocre video quality, I still enjoy a lot of the scenes I downloaded here more than HD content on other sites. I'd be surprised if anyone couldn't find some material they like on this site. However, if you are a fan of photos, this probably isn't the best site to join.
Hey exotics, I know this is an old post, but I was considering re-joining nubiles in the near future and stumbled across it and found it very entertaining.
My recollection of nubiles from a couple of years ago was that they had many euro models using less common names, or names not even on eurobabeindex.
I guess no one should ever doubt your knowledge of euro porn stars!
I don't know that i've ever noticed anyone submitting 3 or more reviews a week for months at a time, who has done this? I know i've reviewed a couple a week a few times, but that was usually because one of the sites was terrible - so I had to join another to feed the beast.
Like Denner said, isn't this the reason for trust votes?
I actually didn't mind Hustler's new setup without DRM that much. I think they do fill a niche (porn with stories, however half-assed) that sites like Videobox and AmericanVice don't seem to focus on. Although Hustler certainly needs to improve video quality.
If you didn't like Hustler's setup, you'll hate Private. It has significantly worse navigation than Hustler does, and the video quality is equal or perhaps slightly better than what Hustler offers.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Since I keep getting responses to my comment, I figured I'd go ahead and write a review. Hopefully this answers everybody's questions.
-Good size archive, almost 500 downloadable DVDs, 1160 zipped photosets, 200 downloadable full magazines.
-Partial magazine archive, most of which is downloadable in PDF format which is excellent quality. I'm not really sure "quantify" good quality for a pdf, but they appear to be digital prints of the magazines, not scans.
-Decent download speeds, I almost maxed out my connection - 1.4 MB/sec in Eastern USA
-Downloadable zips of photosets and magazines
-Video quality is acceptable 640x480 1500 kbps on high
-No DRM
-Photo quality okay, 1200x800 for the newer stuff 600x400 for the older stuff
-Good price with TBP discount
Cons:
-Navigation is downright aweful. If the navagation was similar to what is shown in the preview the site would be much better. I ended up keeping a window of the preview open so I could figure out which videos had which stars in them.
-Have a search function, but it is basically worthless unless you know the title name you are looking for
-Even when you find the DVD you are looking for, the thumbnail previews of the scenes are so small you can't tell who is in it. They don't even list who stars in the DVD or scene when you get to the DVD page.
-Download managers do not work
-Content not exclusive, many Private DVDs are available on sites like Videobox.
-It just takes too much time to sort through it all, I gave up and moved on
Bottom Line:
I think this site is the perfect example of a site that could be great with some major fixes to navigation and setup. Based on the amount of Pros I listed, you may think my score is far too low, but sites like this just piss me off. They certainly have some great content, and if you have the time you can find it - but why have the preview area show reasonably good navigation and then when you join the site it is terrible? I kept thinking there must be something I'm missing, like you have to click somewhere to go back to a "home page" or something. I can't stand sites that use this type of "bait and switch" tactics. Navigation, especially with a site this large, is pretty much THE MOST important thing.
Based on the stuff I found, if they fixed the navigation issues, added much larger thumbnails and scene previews, this site certainly could be excellent.
Even if they say they fix the navigation problems (see the Webmaster's reply to my comment) I would be hesitant to join again. Thus, it would be hard for me to recommend to anyone unless they have boatloads of free time.
Sorry if my Bottom Line sounded more like a rant, but content providers need to learn not to mislead customers.
the quality of the PDFs is excellent, you can zoom in - read the writing easily, very crisp. Definitely not scans. I'd say about 80% or so of the downloadable magazines are available in PDF, however they only have 40-60 or so of each magazine series (Private, Pirate, Triple X, Sex) and they have a few special editions. This is not their older material, the oldest magazine in each series was:
Sex 36
Triple X 45
Pirate 71
Private 180
Hope that helps, I'd wait to join until they make the improvements the Private Webmaster spoke of in his comment, it could get much better with just some navigation tweeks.
Pat, I'll try to write a more thorough review later in the week if I have time. The catalog of downloadable dvds is about 470 titles, so the size of the site is pretty decent. The "High" movies are 640x480 1500 kbps typcially, wmv only.
Like I said, my main problem is navagation and inability to use download managers, I'm sure they have some great scenes - but they are pretty much impossible to find unless you know the name of the dvd you are looking for (can't search by star of films)
In response to Rome, the download speeds were excellent whenever I logged in (1.4 MB/sec), however I was unable to get any download managers to work.
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