I switched over to using Free Download Manager, and it fixed the problem. I had been just using the Firefox download manager. FDM hasn't had one error and is getting right at 100% speed for me. I have a 10 M connection, so my top speed will run at around 1,200 kb/s. Running two downloads at the same time in FDM, keeps a steady 600 kb/s on each one.
The DVD videos on videobox do vary. I just downloaded some earlier today. Here is one to check out to see the 720x480. Title of DVD is BJ Babes. Those are 720. I do believe the difference between 640 and 720 high end has to do with whether shot in widescreen format or normal format.
I had this happen to me on Eve Angel's site last year. The payment processor said that there is only a certain amount of months they can recur your account, without opening a new account. I don't know if this is some kind of new rule or maybe it could even depend on who you have your card with, they could be stopping it after so many months since there are so many scams these days that charge a person's card every month without them even noticing. The limit on mine was 12 months, after that, I had to go back and re-register. So, I wouldn't count on it being VB's fault. I know there has been a scam going where a place calls and says you have won X amount of free gas, to confirm your birthday, by pressing it in and somehow, they then have you "confirmed" into a coupon club that costs $15 a month. Then again, you aren't likely to get an answer from VB, I've sent them a dozen or so support mails over the years and never received a reply.
I was hoping you wouldn't take my reply wrong, and think I was having an attitude. I'm not really into the high tech computers myself. Just bought a new one this past Christmas and went ahead and got the bigger monitor. And thought I would share my experiences with it compared to the more regular monitors.
It also could be the bitrate of the videos that is causing the blurriness or not clear parts. I just joined porn.com the other day, they have pretty nice resolution 640 high end, but their WMV are only 1,000k bitrate, their DIVX files are the same resolution but are 2,000k bitrate and look much nicer. The bitrate seems to be where the smoothness of the video shows.
As I was telling apoctom, this new computer that my wife bought me for Christmas is a real monster of a computer, it has the top end video card in it and over 4000 RAM, so I probably am going to get clearer videos just by default because the computer is so fast and powerful.
I also think the file type can make a difference. Which is why I think in the TBP reviews you can notice where there take away for sites not giving many download options of file types. Try some DIVX files with a high bitrate and see if they don't look clearer to you. I'm starting to think WMV files are no longer the best.
Last, the bitrate also effects the size of the file, I had forgot to mention that in my last post. Those two videos that I used as examples in the other post have a large difference in bitrates as well. Both are Eva Angelina clips. Fabulous has a 4,586k bitrate which is very fast, but Don't Hide it, Divide It has a 7,540k bitrate which is extremely fast. I had read your post about the 1byday re-releases, that is what they are doing to those, raising the resolution and raising the speed of the bitrate.
I'm not quite technically savvy enough to say that a video card would make a huge difference, but I know a video card can make a difference in the frames per second that a video game runs at, which makes it smoother. That could be something you could look into. A good video card doesn't cost much over $100, and are a snap to put in, no technical ability required. But do try that with the DIVX clips and let me know if those look clearer than the WMV ones, so I can make sure I'm not losing my mind! Talk to you later.
Hey Apoctom, the monitor I am using is a LG L246WP-BN, I stumbled across it around Christmas for $549. I've been really happy with it, except it isn't that practical for everyday uses. Like typing emails, or even posting here, the resolution is so high 1920x1200, that you have to up the text size to the largest just to be able to read it. It makes some sites look strange too, like the General Entertainment sites, the actual calendar that shows their updates only takes up about 1/4th of the screen.
My wife has a 17 inch regular LCD not wide, that works better for everyday tasks, and is what I use for most of the things I do on the internet. My entertainment computer had a GeForce 8600 GTS video card in it, and really it worked great, but I was caught up in the 9600 GT and recently upgraded to it. Also have 4GB of DDR RAM.
Not really for sure why I went this high end since I'm not really much of a PC gamer, preferring console games, but it sure makes my videos look nice!
Also, if you get some of those high resolution pictures like on Babelicious or Met-Art, it looks like you have a poster on your desk with the 24 inch monitor. Thanks for the reply.
I don't think it is something Videobox is doing. My understanding is that they buy the rights to the DVD then post just as it is on the DVD. Some studios use 640 high end as DVD resolution, others use 720 on the high end. As far as I know VB doesn't alter the videos at all. I'm not for sure with their multi-updates per day that they would even have time to alter the scenes.
I think the difference you are looking at between high and DVD is 480x352 is the top "high" quality. 720x480 is the top "DVD" quality. The average DVD quality clips are 640x480.
There really could be a difference depending on the size and type monitor you have. I have two computers, my wife uses one for business, it has a 17 inch regular view LCD monitor, on it, I can't tell much difference between the high and DVD videos. On my entertainment computer, I have a 24 inch HD widescreen monitor and I can tell a big difference between the high and DVD clips.
It is the page that comes up when you go to videobox dot com. If it comes up as the page that shows updates, then your cookies haven't been cleared in awhile. She is also on the update page though without the green bikini, smallish brunette, just her and a blonde on that page. The title page has 4 models, she is on it too, so I'm assuming she is a huge star that I have looked over. My cookies clear daily so I always get the page, sorry for the confusion.
Hey Woodruff, thanks. I sometimes get the page, other times I don't. I think it depends on if you clear your cookies since it is the intro/warning page, once you join, I believe it just starts you out on the page with the new DVDs. Used to I would get the page that had all the 5 star and high ratings to start with, but they have altered it now to show 4 women, one of them is a brunette with a micro-thong lime green bikini on. I sent videobox feedback on their new beta version of their site, and asked in it about the girl, but I don't know if they will reply to it or not. She is a really sexy woman. Though I don't download a lot of DVDs, preferring individual model sites, I usually have a good knowledge of models especially the brunettes. She kind of reminds me of Peaches, the Euro model, but Peaches is very tall, this model doesn't look very tall.
VB definitely has improved their site, something that I thought was near impossible to do. Now if I could get them to put a Download Full DVD link, the site would be perfect!
Which download manager do you use? I usually use the freebie Free Download Manager, it works fine for maybe 6 or 7 clips, but if I load 50 in it and leave the room, the site refreshes, even with my username and password in the manager. Thanks ahead of time.
What is the new look and features? I join it about every 4 months, and have a few more months before joining again. I stopped by, maybe I need to clear my cookies, I don't see anything different. Any info would be appreciated! Thanks.
It depends on which pay option you pick. Regular price for the ability to download DVD resolution is $17.99, you can get it by going through TBP for $14.99, the $9.99 doesn't give you DVD resolution option to download.
The last one I downloaded was "Bait #4" the screen resolution on it using the DVD option is 640x480. Which is pretty good, not bad, but not great. From what I have noticed, the age of the movie no longer matters as long as you pay the $14.99 for the DVD resolution, I may be wrong on that, but all of those DVD resolution clips seem to be about the same size (in the 500 meg range.)
I would like to see them bump the quality up some, but considering the low price and amount of content they have, 640x480 will do. Hope that helped.
In my reply to you that "talked out of believing Bang Bros was behind Videosz".
I also said, "Do you know who the biller was? I only ask because RearAdmiral and I had trouble with echst.net."
Videosz still has nothing to do with Bang Brothers. Neither does the site Bang.com
It's the biller that is doing it and if you look up echst.net you will see they bill for all the Met-Art sites. They do not bill for Bang Bros.
I'm not trying to be hard on you, but I clearly told you about the problems Rear Admiral and I both had with echst.net. They are doing the same thing to you they did to us.
Bang Bros is known for forcing upsells during a membership not charging after you cancel. There are threads in the forum about the problems both Rear Admiral and I had with echst.net
As hard as it is to believe Bang and Bang Bros are in no way related. Bang is a newer massive DVD site like Videosz. Bang and Videosz are owned by the same company.
Do you know who the biller was? I only ask because RearAdmiral and I had trouble with echst.net. They were billing for Bang last year and I wondered if Videosz is using them. Either way, their owners SCTR are a good company by porn standards.
Thanks RA, good to see you still around.
My reviews should be a little more balanced score-wise than they used to be since I really don't have hardly any favorite models anymore.
I do believe the move to quality over quantity is important at this point in these sites lives. When you've got 10+ years of content piling up it's time to start focusing on quality since the quantity should already be there. I'll have a couple of more similar sites to compare over the next few weeks between DDF and 21 Sextury, as both of these once top European networks have both started using different update schedules, higher quality, less quantity practices.
I would think Videobox might still keep me coming back at least once a year to get the Vivid updates, but I ended up with nearly 200 GB more content from VideosZ than Videobox.
I used to be bothered by daily download limits and still am by the more stricter ones like Reality Kings where they cut you off after 50 scenes in one day, but I only hit Reality Kings twice. I hardly ever find enough content, that I want to keep, these days to download more than 25-50 scenes a day, but can understand the frustration for those who are hitting a limit. Thanks for the heads up on the lower resolution. I went through their search engine for an hour or so, counting HD scenes, total scenes, but didn't find anything lower than 540p.
Hey jd1961, sorry about the delayed response, was very busy this past week. As long as you download the DIVX/XVID versions, I haven't found any DRM in those. The only DRM I found was in an older one that I accidentally downloaded in WMV format. Their DIVX format looks very good too. I've had varying results with DIVX, but I believe they must put a lot of work in the compression.
Could be a case of people getting Viv Thomas and Viv Thomas Video mixed up. I don't remember Viv Thomas (that Met Art bought) having much hardcore on it, but Viv Thomas Video (that I don't think Met Art bought) having lots of hardcore on it. I joined Viv Thomas Video a few months ago to pick up some scenes I've lost or misplaced and it was "updating" with recycled videos from 6 years ago, but it did have a lot of hardcore still on it.
As for Viv Thomas that Met Art bought, it still has some hardcore, but it's a very small percentage (maybe 10%), so there is still some hardcore on it, but nothing like Viv Thomas Video had.
The reason you aren't getting much video satisfaction with this Viv site is because it is his photo site. The videos are there, but they are there to hope you buy the DVDs or join his video site. His video site is VivThomasVideo. It has the full scenes in one part. On a side note, he has started putting more pictures on the video site too.
You can also get full access to all of his videos in full parts by joining Teen Dreams. It is listed as "bonus" content under "Viv Thomas Videos" on their site, but it is fully downloadable, full scenes and probably has 95% of his videos on it. This is probably the best deal, though the movies aren't quite as high quality as his video site has, they are still a respectable 640 high end. Plus, with the TBP discount, Teen Dreams is only $19.95 so you get their whole huge site and all of Viv's videos too for less than $20. They also have his picture sets in their bonus section, but no zips.
Hey Wittyguy, I meant to reply back to this but got seriously caught in work and let a lot of replies pile up.
I didn't think you were picking on my score. I posted that thread mainly because a lot of members don't notice that I rarely rank a site very low unless it is terrible or a gimmick or rip-off.
I like to call my scoring system a curved one. Really bad porn pun there. Since I usually won't review a site that is below a 70, instead posting a comment to warn others, my ratings range between 70-100, so 85 is the middle. I know that Toadsith also talked about this. I had reviewed other things as well like he was talking with netflix. Mine usually pertain to weight lifting equipment, where we gave "dumbbells" as ratings, 1-5. So, the larger scoring scale gives me some problems.
Just wanted to clear that up so you didn't think I took it personally.
I've found that the best place to find the full Viv sets are on Teen Dreams. I think I noted that in a reply to Drooler, a set that has Eve Angel and Mona Lisa, on Viv's site it has around 80 pictures in it, on Teen Dreams it has 220 or so. My understanding of that was that Viv considers his sets to have a flow to them. Meaning, you won't see nearly the same exact pose two or three times in the same set.
As for the scoring system. I probably should start a thread in the forum area about that, since we've had a lot of members that question scores. One thing I will note here is always check the reviewers average score. My average site that I've reviewed is 84.7, in comparison yours is 82.1 and Drooler's is 78.3. I generally rate sites higher and will, as I said, start a thread to discuss that since I have several trust ratings that say, "Trusted but his scores are too high". Be sure to check out the thread in the forum, maybe other members could also chime in about it.
Agree, I have to think if I was a photographer, my pictures would come out looking something like Viv's because of his love of the lower body, including legs.
Some of the newer content also shows up on Teen Dreams in better resolution. One that stands out to me is the Eve/Mona Lisa set on a couch. The TD set is 1900 resolution high end and has over 200 pictures in it, the Viv set only has about 80 pictures in it. He does seem though to keep many of the solo sets exclusive to his site. From what I can tell, he most likely has the 3 newest sets of Eve solo, and I haven't seen those anywhere. I can agree too about the resolution. I wish he would bump it up a notch or two. I think one of the big selling points for me is the continuity of the site. You never hear of a model doing one set, then refusing to work with him. And because of that, you do get the idea that he gets the best out of the models, the big smiles, seductive looks, etc..
I have been a member here off and on now since I think 2003, and admit that I've let the membership recur way more than I should, just because I know he will add a few sets that I have never seen and will want. It is almost like he has a very loyal following of fans and his main goal is to keep them happy with new content of their favorites.
Hey slutty, I don't know what has happened to Viv. He had also been promising higher resolution pictures, but those haven't happened either. Still, like you, the quality of the action on the screen seems to outweigh the need for the highest technical quality of the videos. I wish he would update more too. Considering how much porn he has filmed, he has to have a few thousand clips laying around!
I just posted a review for a site that has some really rare photos of Eve called, thenextgirl.com, check out the preview and click on Eve to see a few samples. The one set with the blue panties on, in bed, is one of the best I have ever seen of her.
Since my last post to you, I have picked up more than a dozen more Eve b/g clips. Including one that is really old that has Eve, I believe Angel Dark and a few others with 4 guys in a gangbang. Eve doesn't do much in it except a little bit of a blowjob with one guy and some doggystyle, but it is so old, I'm guessing 2001, that she doesn't even look like herself now in it. I also found another called Junior College Sex that has her teasing a guy, then she has sex with him, it is one of the better b/g clips I have seen of her. This guy kisses her some, which seems to be her turn on, and she seems much more into it with him. Other than that, I think I have picked up just about everything of her that is out there. And I agree, she is my favorite by far of the Euro girls.
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