I did the trial join on this site in January '08 and found out that the trial was very limited in terms of what you could download (contrary to the TBP pronouncement) and the material was not exclusive. I immediately cancelled and left. Be careful of this one.
Just saw this listed as a new site on TBP and took a quick glance. It's a softcore/toys/lez euro teen site with some known pornstars and not so known ones. Claims to have 300,000 pics with resolution up to 3000 pixels and to have HD vids in sizes up to 1920x1080. I'm wondering if this site has exclusive content as it claims or not. You can glance at the girls in the model directory or pic/vid gallery so I'm wondering if someone who has a bigger softcore collection than me can enlighten all of us as to exclusivity. If it is exclusive then it would be a pretty hot site.
This site advertises a $1, 2 day full access trial. I liked the site before so I thought I'd try it again. Wrong. Pay your dollar and go to website. Trying to access any page beyond the home page results in you being taken to their billing processor asking for an automatic upgrade ($1 for 3 days, $25 for the next 30). According to the terms and conditions you can't cancel soon enough to avoid the $25 upgrade charge so you're stuck paying for the full month. So, take this off your list of cheap places to check out for a few days.
Just noticed this one as a new artsy softcore listing at TBP and I glanced at the site. The place looks small with only about 25 scenes by my count but it claims to have 1080p HD video downloads and lifesize (4300 pixels) photos. The price looks reasonable at $20 a month and they promise multiple weekly updates but from the tour I couldn't tell how frequently they occur. Also the pic galleries seem to contain fewer than 40 shots per set which is a bit small by my standards. Now I'm just waiting to see who will take the plunge first and post a review on this one.
I bit on the $10 per month offer and man am I regretting it. I haven't been here in a few years and boy have things changed (for the worse) under the new management.
Everything is now housed under the twistysnetwork portal. You can select a site and choose pics or vids or both to view. Sh*t immediately goes south after that. The page display only allows for 20 scenes. After that you can only advance 2 pages at a time (big problem with a site this large). Say you're on page 24 and you can click on a scene. After you're done you click the "back" button on your browser; PRESTO, you automatically get taken back to page one (a problem with a Flash driven sites with no internal site "back" and "forward" buttons). Now you get to keep on clicking two pages at a time to get back to the page you were on and repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum. If you were screening under just pics or just vids it forgets that too. If you were on a particular subsite of Twistys sometimes it forgets that too.
Using the advanced navigation doesn't fix the problem and neither does switching browsers. The url specs in the browser only show that you're on a single page no matter what internal page you might be on so you can't manually override the "back to square one" problem either.
Postscript: The next day I finally figured a work around, you have to right click on a scene and open in a new tab (duh me). Still, why should I have to do this? It doesn't help that their regular search engine is crappola either. The inability to page jump on a site with so much content is still a pain.
After having been on porn hiatus for a while I logged in today and found Twisty's advertising a $1, 2 day full access trial. Alright I think to myself. Catch up on some of the stuff since I last joined. WRONG. After paying out and logging in you get this lovely little message: "As a trial member you get access to 3 Scenes & 3 Photo Sets hand picked by Twistys Staff". Frickin' yeah. Obviously, don't bother with the current trial offer here.
I usually venture back to Twisty's once a year or so to catch up on anything that I've missed when browsing other super sites. Doing my annual checkup I noticed a couple of things:
1. Twisty's has a great full access trial membership for two days for a few bucks (please don't yank this Shap, I dig it). However, it is a bit curious that your fees can vary depending on which entry site you use. I found two day trial prices varying from $3.88 to $2.95 to $1.00 (the one buck deal is through the AnetteDawn site). A little weird but I guess it pays off to poke (figuratively that is) around. Also, you get different billing processors (ccbill or epoch) depending which site you join through.
2. As I'm more of a pic guy and Twisty's has lots of pics I like the site. However, this time around I noticed that a lot of models in both the hardcore and softcore sets seem overly cropped in that you rarely see full body shots. I don't mind closeups and tight shots but especially when it comes to solo models I like to see the whole body more than I what I get here. Just a suggestion for future crop jobs there guys.
While I'm on the pic topic I also note that the photosets seem a bit small. Not many sites push the 30 to 100 images per set but, again, when it comes to solo models a lot of these sets feel like they've been cut short. I don't need thousands of pics but more in this case would be better.
I was a member here about 6 months ago and was not all that impressed with it. The pics were good sized (full screen or larger) but they did tend to be grainy as others have noted and the lighting is sort of hit or miss. The still photography wasn't that good either for my tastes. For me, the site was too amateur. By this I mean the models were mostly average and the production not terribly good. For those who like real couple sex then I could see that this might be a turn on but I thought that the production value could be better. I didn't download very much and kept even less.
Granted, the TBP folks look at a lot of porn sites and they don't collect porn like most of us do so they're not always on top of sites that make claims about exclusive content. However today's TBP review score of 81 is misplaced in my book. It is unfortunate when a review basically seems to read like something ripped from the site's marketing department: "All of the material on Velvet Mag is original. They shot it all and you won't find it anywhere other than the hard copies of their magazines." NOT! I joined this site (see my Swankpass review) last year and found it loaded with nonexclusive content. These magazine sites usually claim "exclusivity" on the fact that they may have had the original publication rights to these scenes but the stuff is so old and has been on so many web sites that it becomes meaningless. Looking at the very limited tour pages on this site today (bad sign) it looks like mostly old stuff to me, same as last year. At $20 a month, you'd get more enjoyment out of buying the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" collectors set DVD than this place.
There have been so many reviews here that I've just decided to add a couple of my own thoughts. I'm more of a picture guy so I don't do video only sites too often. The price is great, the multiple daily updates are great and so is the volume of content. My only disappointments were that most of the content was older, we'e talking years or decades old stuff and the quality is only average given the age and lack of top tier studio compilations. The search function is good which is needed for a site this size.
Overall, if you like pics along with your vids I'd save my money for something from 21st Sextury, Suze.net or DDF productions. With those you get current stuff, high quality plus pics but you lose out on the price on some of them. I don't have anything bad to say about this site; just realize that you do give up some things for the great price.
I haven't really paid much attention to anime or animation sites in the past since, in my opinion, the quality hasn't been that good. I saw this site listed on TBP and just clicked to take a peek. I was pretty impressed. Very high quality animation going on here, almost lifelike in some of the shots shown on the tour. The girls are a bit on the japanese anime side with the whole big eye thing but it was impressive. It will be interesting in a few years when technology allows for full length video scenes of this stuff to be produced at an affordable price. As for this one, I'm not going to join here as it looks like it's mostly pics but it shows that technology is catching up and getting better.
I joined Vivthomas (I did not join the video site) in 11/07 on a TBP trial of $9.99. If you don't pay for the video site, you do not get to download the vids although there are some streaming vids so if you join you are joining for the pictures.
The pictures are well done and come in several different sizes going up 1280 pixels. There is a zip option.
If you join, you have to realize that a lot, but not all, of this material is old and is not exclusive. Viv sells a lot of his material to other sites and some sites also offer a Vivthomas section as part of their bonus material. I checked out the Vivthomas tour today and noticed that some of the newer postings are recycled shoots that I have had for years.
However, old does not necessarily mean bad. When I was a member I found some hot older series of Nella and Sophie Moon that I had not seen before. There is a fair amount of content but nothing you can't easily see in a month. Most of the content is softcare but there is a good amount of hardcore (about 200 sets) with most sets having 25 to 80 pics.
If you are newish to porn surfing and like quality photography, then this site is well worth the trial rate of $9.99 for a month but then leave and scratch it off your list.
Saw the new TBP review today and, being that I haven't seen this site in a few years after having a previous member, thought I'd take a quick gander at the preview pages. Uggghhh! The pic updates page showed nothing but content that's been circulating in the web ether for years. In fact I didn't see anything of interest that hasn't been on my hard drive for a long time. The videos looked a little fresher but that may just be because it was mostly solo and lez content which I don't pay as much attention to. Seems like Viv peaked and is riding out the game at this point. No subscription coming up from me.
I maybe off the reservation on this one but here goes: I didn't really any research on this site before joining and now I'm left wondering why this place is getting such high scores. Usually I associate high scores with exclusive content but I've been a member here for a few days and I can pretty much say that as far as the hardcore content goes that this place is basically taking sets directly from the Teenmegaworld network and/or 18xgirls site. There may be a few a sets that are exclusive but most of it looks like the same material. They do change the names on some of the models between the sites but … you get my drift. The quality of some of the photo sets may be better here than on TMW but the videos appear to be about the same quality as the other sites.
I don't really get into solo content any more so I can't say how much of this is duplicated or not. Anyone happen to know on this?
If the content really is mostly duplicated then I guess I'd have to say that you should save a few bucks on the membership price and just join TMW or 18xgirls since they're cheaper.
I belonged to zpornstars probably about 5 years ago. I saw on TBP that they're offering a $10 reduced membership. Hopping over to the website redflags started jumping out. The front page (there is no tour) looks almost exactly like I remember it. The sample girls posted on the site have been around, or out of porn, for years and it looks like nothing new.
The TBP says there are no high rez pics or vids which was a bit of bummer to me when I was last there. The pic sets came in at around 800x600. It might be worth it if the pics and vids were higher quality but from what I see and what little the website is willing to show I doubt that this is nothing but really old recycled material.
If anyone has had a more recent experience I'd like to know if there is any newer material. Otherwise, if you've seen the older porn star material on the web I can't see any reason to go here.
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