I'm not sure what you mean when you say downloading two files at the same time goes twice as slow. I use DownThemAll, and the download rate for 1 or 2 or even 3 files (the total amount of kb/s) remains pretty steady. The total amount of time to download 3 files is not longer when you download 2 or 3 files at the same time. Actually, it's slightly shorter. And by downloading 3 files at once, you don't have to wait around for one file to finish downloading, before you start downloading the next one. (You can do the downloading automatically, once you start the downloads.)
I used to use Free Download Manager, which let me schedule the downloads separately. But when I updated my Firefox browser some time back, the Free Download Manager program somehow got messed up, and did not work with Firefox.
Maybe I will try to fix the Free Download Manager program, because it was very easy to use, and very convenient in scheduling downloads, and really worked well.
When you want to download a large number of separate files, you need a download manager to handle the chores, or you will be spending a huge amount of time at the computer keyboard.
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But if you download more than 1 file at a time at this site, you are heavily penalized on your download limit. So it's not worth it.
I only subscribe to a few paysites at any one time. So it's just as easy to type in the name as to bother setting up and using a bookmark. I use firefox, so like atrapat mentioned, the autocomplete feature means I only have to type in a few letters, and firefox will complete the site address for me.
The main attraction of this site (and almost any site, as far as I am
concerned) is how attractive are the models. Some of my favorites are Maria Ozawa, Cecil Fujisaki, Sora Aoi, Saori Hara, Tina Yuzuki. Maria Ozawa is absolutely gorgeous.
Aino Kishi is a new one for me.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will give her a try.
I would love to try all the different JAV sites that look to be worthwhile. But with limited cash, I thought this site would, because of its large content and apparently good-quality videos and photosets, be a good site to belong to.
I just need to get back into the site, when they unblock me, to see what I can download.
I did send a message to the help desk explaining that I was blocked and should not have been. But an email reply can take 1-2 days, and I should have access sometime tomorrow. But I am interested in what the support email will say, because I did explain clearly that I only downloaded 2.98 GB out of a daily limit of 12 GB. I also mentioned being blocked for about 2 hours because no popup page for username and password would pop up on my PC. Some help desks are almost useless, and there is the additional problem, I assume, that the help desk might be in Japan, so English would be a second language. But I am curious to see if the help desk will offer anything beyond a mechanical message that "We're sorry about your problem. Hope you feel better soon". Some help desk emails are entirely mechanical (form letter), and it seems they haven't even bothered to read the email requesting help.
Thanks for the tip, Gcode. Actually, I used Firefox browser and DownThemAll download manager to download my files from this site. I used DownThemAll because I thought that if a file download is interrupted, DownThemAll might allow the download to be resumed, instead of restarted from the beginning of the file download.
After I got the "exceeded download limit" message, I looked around their site, and found in the "Knowledge Base>Download Related>Can I use a download manager to download movies?" the following statement:
"Yes, you can [use a download manager], but please remember to setup your download manager to download using one (1) thread only. Multiple download threads will be counted towards your bandwidth. We will not issue any refund that is related to the use of multi-threaded downloads."
If I was a lawyer, which I am not, I would read that statement to say that "mulitiple download threads will be counted towards your bandwidth." Actually, that is exactly what they wrote.
If they miscount my bandwidth usage, that is their error, not mine.
I was cut off from access at 2.98 GB, when the daily limit is 12 GB.
And if they refuse me access because of their error, I see little or no reason to pay for service which they are not providing.
Sorry, I realize in the real world things don't always work, and everyone likes to say the blame lies with someone else.
So I will either cancel the service, and tell my credit card company I was billed improperly, or try to get over the irritation and wait until I am allowed back in, to see what other problems this site dumps on me. Grrrrr. (Tony the Tiger).
Thanks again for taking the time and effort to share your experiences.
Success. Refreshed page, selected "member login", and a popup window appeared, requesting my username and password. I entered the information, and was allowed into the member area. Took me what, a couple of hours to get in?
I used to believe in Japanese efficiency. But there can be problems along the way, I now realize.
That popup window for authentication was evidently not being blocked by my PC hardware/software, but by what? I have no idea.
Sorry, I don't have any additional details on the new pricing. The only information is that it is a "special" offer, whatever that means. I plan on joining tomorrow, and downloading for 1 month solid.
This is one of the biggest and best JAV sites that I know of.
Thanks, Lionheart. There are people like Drooler and Toadsith who write excellent reviews. I've got a long way to improve before I get to be anywhere close to them as writers.
Thanks. I don't have a lot of experience in porn videos. This was the first time I saw Rocco Siffredi, that I know of. Some of his videos are really interesting and good quality. Of course, you watch a lot of them, especially some of his series, they do get a little repetitive. But there are some videos at his site that I thought were extremely good, better than anything I've seen elsewhere.
If you ever join this network, which has 19 different sites, this site is definitely worth looking over. It's just a question of how much time you want to spend going thru the different videos to find what you think is worthwhile.
But there are several sites in the network that I thought had some really worthwhile videos: peternorth.com
devilsfilm
silverstoneDVD
roccosiffredi
PU/TBP has a special price of $14.95/month for the network. But if you're lucky, you might find an even cheaper offer somewhere.
Drooler, I wouldn't mind reading one of your reviews on Met-art. You usually manage to come up with something worthwhile to say.
Mbaya posted a couple of days ago that "The reviewers I respect the most are Exotics and Gcode. I feel their reviews are simply awe inspiring and wish I could write as well. The two reviewers I find most helpful as their tastes are similar to mine are Drooler and Denner."
I would put Drooler and Toadsith at the top of my list for the reviewers I respect the most. Though some other PU members come close.
It continuously surprises me how much personal tastes can differ.
I was thinking the models of the last year were not up the the previous standards of attractiveness. There were a good percentage of lovely young girls in the past, and I've found very few that I really liked this past year.
We agree on the videos, though, but I don't know what they can do, since Met-art is strictly softcore. I find that Femjoy videos are more watchable than Met-art videos, but not by much.
If the videos went very high-definition, that might help a little. Better music background would help a little. But the main problem is the girls don't do much of anything: they walk, they sit, they lay down, stand up. If there was some story to the video, that would help, but these girls are not actresses. And the photo people are not writers that would be able to write a short plot that makes sense and holds interest.
I'm getting up there in age, and I don't remember what my first paysite was, to tell the truth. Before I joined my first paysite, I used to look at free photos of Playboy playmates on the Internet. I guess old Hef is the one who led me down that garden path.
Some of the older playmates from the 1970s and 1980s were special. Far better than what they are choosing for the 2000+ playmates. The older ones seemed more real, less plastic. I'm sure there were a number of boob jobs and whatnot back then, but it was less obvious.
Solid review with nice details and opinions.
But if you were able to get through the massive photo content of this site in three months, you must have been spending a huge amount of time here. And that's if you skipped the video content, which I think is almost all skippable, anyway. :)
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he photoshops his pictures. The man is now 52, and he is the main selling point for his web sites and DVDs. So he definitely wants to look as good as possible, and if photoshop will make him look better in his photographs, why not?
He definitely has a lot of ego. But he is a porn star, and part of that means selling himself. Major movie stars have to sell themselves as well, when they promote their films. It's part of the business.
I admit my review was poking fun at his ego, a bit, but he does deserve respect for apparently making such a financial success of himself in the porn industry. He has not only acted in over 1600 titles, but he is also a porn director and producer. He also promotes/pitches products, which is what major movie and TV stars like Cher have done.
If you join a network with one of his sites included as a bonus, you might want to look through the DVD clips offered. Peter North has been acting in porn since the 1980s, and he's acted with a huge number of attractive models. He does not come across as an egotistic jerk in his videos.
He is a workout buff, and is proud of his body. But that is also self-promotion, and smart. I personally think that some of the promotion is overdone, but some fans are impressed by all of this. He is famous for having a large penis (in length and girth), famous for the large amount of cum he produces, and how far it shoots. His fans are both male and female. The female fans want to be on the receiving end of his sex, and the male fans want to be like him.
Separately, I gave his site a score of 87. That score is based on the network value of all 19 sites in the network, and not just on the single value of this individual PeterNorth site. If I was rating this PeterNorth site as a single, stand-alone site, my score would have been lower.
I tried to make that clear, in the BOTTOM LINE of my review, that I was scoring the site for its "network as a whole score, not as a single site by itself score". If my score was misinterpreted as a score for this site by itself, I apologize.
There might be fans who would rate this PeterNorth site by itself as an 87, but I'm not that crazy about him. I'm more into the female models he is bonking. :)
Separate from the site or network score (although related), I do try, when writing a site review, to mention some of the positive and negative aspects of the site I am reviewing.
In the case of White Ghetto, the major positive factor is that it is part of a nice network. I searched really hard to find something positive to say about the site. :)
On the negative side, other than I didn't like any of the models or the video clips or anything else about the site, I tried to say it in an intelligent way. But I'm afraid that it mainly came out as "I just don't like this site".
So I'm glad that I finished with my review of that site, and will hopefully focus more on sites that are easier for me to enjoy.
But the truth is that a site score has limited value. What is more important, on an individual basis, is whether the site caters to your personal tastes. My tastes are mainly softcore. I don't mind some hardcore, but I would like it to be good-looking or glamorous or nice. I don't like rough.
Site content (quality and quantity) and ease of use and price are the main factors in determining score, for me. My approach is different than the TBP approach, which does not consider price. But those are the factors which are important to me. Price does matter.
But I do try (and hope) that my reviews will have some usefulness or value to a PU member who might read the review, as an indicator of whether a site might be worth a membership or not. Based on individual tastes, of course. For a lot of PU members, my personal tastes are far too softcore.
I am not following the PU suggestion of rating an individual site that is part of a network as an individual site.
Instead, I am rating the overall network of sites.
I have reviewed several different sites in this netFameSolutions network, and I gave the same score to each site. Each site has a different individual value, but most of the value comes from the ability to access all the sites in the network, to access all the videos (and pictures, which are a minor part of this network).
I explained in each separate review in the BOTTOM LINE (summary) section the basis of my score: that I was not giving the site a score based on the value of the site itself, but on the network of the sites.
Perhaps I did not make that point clear enough.
You are entirely correct that, if I was thinking consistently, based on the negatives I reported about this individual site, my score would have been far lower than the 87 I gave the site--if I was rating the site on an individual basis. But I am not rating the site on an individual basis, but on a network basis.
I wrote at the end of this review: "I'm giving this site a score of 87 for its network value. As a stand-alone site, this site personally has zero value for me. But tastes vary. Some PU members might find it worthwhile to visit."
Technically, I am being too hard when I say the site has zero value, but I basically regard this site as a waste of time for me, personally.
But I wrote in this review, "I'm giving this site a score of 87 for its network value". What I meant was that the network of sites has a score of 87, even though this individual site has, for me, little or no value. Individual tastes vary, so maybe some people will enjoy at least some of the video clips.
Sorry to write such a long explanation to a simple remark, but I am trying to explain clearly what I meant when I said I was giving this site a "network score", instead of a score as an individual site.
Thanks for clearing that up. I keep learning that people can get turned on (or off) by almost anything. I've seen a porn site where the turn-on was a girl picking her nose (for snot). Ugh. But that's certainly not the worst that could happen, I suppose. Lol.
Drooler, bittersweet memories are part of life's lesson. There will always be the next great porn site with fabulous models to lust after. Remember to keep up the good fight, and help us discover those great softcore sites.
(But don't report too many at one time, because my porn dollars are severely limited.)
Language can be strange. In America (the U.S)., straight, when referring to sexual orientation, means heterosexual.
But this is a British gay site. So what the word "straight" means here, I don't know. The site itself advertises "all straight". I doubt these are supposed to be heterosexual models that gay men are supposed to lust after. But maybe that's a niche I've never heard of before.
I joined about the same time as you, for the 2-for-1 pricing of $29.95 for 60 days. I have not been rebilled yet, but the offer specified that the renewal price was $29.95 for every 60 days.
I never got an email confirming my membership, or the price that I was supposed to pay, but I did get access to the site the same day I signed up.
Video clips at SilverstoneDVD and Devilsfilm download as WMV files.
There are 2 file sizes for each clip: small and big.
I downloaded the big file size.
Tech specs for the video clips (at both SilverstoneDVD and Devilsfilm):
(for the big file size WMV download):
bit rate 2115 kbps
dimensions 720x528
Sample femjoy specs:
bit rate 7259 kbps
dimensions 1280x720
The femjoy bit rate varies from clip to clip, but is much higher than what you get at the DVD sites.
(I would have added this to my first reply, but the message can't be edited past 10 minutes.)
Some people can enjoy being frustrated.
Some people enjoy the tease.
But satisfaction is the best. :)
That's why I go for the nude sites.
And with the nude mega-sites, there are a large variety of very attractive girls, which is what I focus on. Single-model sites, unless the model is absolutely fantastic, are too expensive. I only have a limited number of porn dollars, so sites like met-art, mplstudios, justteensite, mypreciousvirgins are where I usually spend my cash.
Quality of clips:
I am not an expert like Toadsith, so I can't give the technical aspects of the DVD clips, or the expert's appraisal of the clips. I am giving an average viewer's response to video clips (who has some, but not extensive experience in viewing porn clips).
If you've been a member of justteensite, justteenmovie, or femjoy, you will have seen extremely clear, clean videos. I am talking about visually. They have the highest quality in terms of clarity and detail, almost like high-quality photos.
The video clips at SilverstoneDVD and DevilsFilm are not as high quality visually as the videos at Femjoy, justteensite, and justteenmovie. I remember reading one post at PU that explains that DVD clips are not visually as high quality as the video clips at some special sites because of economic reasons (it's cheaper to shoot lower quality clips because of the video camera cost and maybe other reasons).
The high def video is listed as 1280x720 at justteensite and justteenmovie.
The femjoy, justteensite and justteenmovie clips I saw were softcore, which is apart from the quality of the clip.But the clips were made for those sites, not as part of a DVD. SilverstoneDVD and Devilsfilm are hardcore clips, made for a DVD market. So that explains why the visual clarity is not as high.
I saw a large number of clips at SilverstoneDVD and Devilsfilm, and thought they were good or decent quality, not high quality, but good. I did not see any clips that were visually mediocre as in milky or blurred. These are professionally shot clips, no jerky camera shots, fairly good editing (editing could be improved, the entire clip could be improved, but what do you expect from a porno DVD?).
These are straight sex clips, with almost no story.
Production values are not great, but the colors are good: for the skin colors of the models, for the colors of the settings.
I did not examine all the clips. For me to look at a clip,
1. I look at the model in the clip: Is the attractive? If not, skip the clip.
2. If the model is attractive, I watch the streaming clip, to see if the sex is stupid, is the moaning and groaning too annoyingly fake, the background music too loud or jangly.
3. I download and save the clips I like. To see them again later.
All the clips I saw had good, not mediocre, viewing-quality.
There are at least some models at SilverstoneDVD and Devilsfilm that are really attractive. The clips would be improved if they had some story, some teasing, sex that was less mechanical, better acting by the model, less fake moaning and groaning by the female and male models (but the moaning and groaning is less than in many porn clips), better background music, softer background music, and the entire clip could be improved. But at least you get some clips of attractive girls that are watchable.
Visually, these are good-quality hardcore clips.
We have a black president.
Gays/lesbians are accepted in open society, some states even recognize same-sex marriages.
Why can't porn stars be accepted as contributing members of society?
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