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#33
from asmith12:
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> I can account for them being just as good or even better than the hundreds of DVD's I've rented.
Wait, but DVDs have nothing to do with HD :-), to compare apples to apples, you should compare HD to Blue-Ray.
> That's strange that you find the lighting for that site to be bad
I've found it bad for at least one specific point in demo video (around 0:03 in the video I've referred to). Do you agree that specific half-second was far from being "crystal clear"? And them, from the fact that site owners even cannot find enough material to make REALLY good DEMO video, I obviously have doubts about the quality inside (if you would make demo for the home page of your site, you would make it THE BEST POSSIBLE way, wouldn't you?).
> if you found videos better than this, I'd like to know which sites so I can check them out.
Easy. Take a look at almost any Private DVD, and at least some Diabolic DVDs (for example, their Panochitas series). While DVD is 10+-year old technology now, and is below freezing point on "how hot/cool it is" scale, it still beats "great advanced modern stuff" hands down, especially when it is used professionally. And no encoding can possibly fix problems with poor cameras used by almost all of the sites.
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05-31-09 11:44pm
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#31
from asmith12:
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I've took a look at InFocusGirls' "High Definition Free Sample Movie" (from their home page). Well, SOME FRAGMENTS of it are indeed crystal clear, but to tell that ALL OF IT is crystal clear is IMHO an big exaggeration. Take a look at fragment of that sample clip at about 0:03; IMHO it's VERY far from being "crystal clear" (not to mention poor lighting, which BTW is IMHO completely unforgivable for a site like this). And as I expect them to combine "the best of the best" into promo HD video like this, I'm even afraid to think of how most of the clips inside look.
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05-31-09 01:26am
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#30
from asmith12:
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Hm, maybe I'll need to try one of them some day. But I suspect it will be about the difference in how we define "crystal clear" :-).
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05-30-09 09:33pm
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#28
from asmith12:
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Crystal clear 1280 video? Frankly, yet to see one, even at 4MBit/s. And at 2G/hour I don't think it's worth it (I prefer to fit my collection on single HDD, it's so much simpler to manage it that way), so at this time I prefer to stick to non-HD versions which IMHO tend to be much clearer and crispier these days; in addition, bringing poorly lighted scene into HD will just highlight this poor lighting.
> So, I'm not saying your wrong or that videos at that rate can't be
> good, but for some of the prices I spend for sites and it being mid
> 2009, these videos are absolutely horrid for the most part on a lot
> of sites still.
Well, if we agree that it is not about sheer bitrates, but about OVERALL QUALITY, I'm with you :-). BTW, it once again brings us to importance of mentioning NOT only TBP-like "dry facts" in reviews, but also to mention subjective things like "encoding is horrible for this bitrate".
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05-30-09 12:21am
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#15
from asmith12:
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Personally I'm MUCH less demanding for the encoding. 720 and 1.5Mbit/s (though it should be REALLY GOOD encoding in 1.5Mbit/s) is all what I'm asking from encoding these days. On the other hand, I'm MUCH more demanding to the original shooting; IMHO if footage was shoot on something like my Sony Z1 (and my feeling is that at least 50% of the sites are using something worse, and only about 10% are using something significantly better), it just doesn't make any sense to go as high as 4MBit/s when encoding it. Oh, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, no interlacing (one of the reasons why I don't like Z1 - it does NOT have progressive formats), and interlaced footage looks HORRIBLE on any attempt to pan, even after deinterlacing. And don't forget about proper lighting - dull lighting will be dull and unattractive regardless of the megabits spent on encoding.
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05-28-09 10:07pm
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#17
from pat362:
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I'm over 30, so I'm on the side of the bush league. I much prefer if it's trimmed, but I'll take one untrimmed over a bald one. I find
it a little distracting to see the razor rash.
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04-23-09 06:35pm
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#5
from lk2fireone:
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GCode, “Me thinks he doth protest too much.” [William Shakespeare]
Me, I just left it at "sexual attraction can be really weird."
So I know I'm straight. How about you? (Lol).
Actually, way back when, you didn't need she-males for this confusion. There were guys dressed as females that were supposed to be very attractive. There was some club in San Francisco that was famous for this type of show, but I never saw any show like this.
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04-20-09 01:59pm
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#18
from TalonIcefire:
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GCode, errors can take place in both external and internal drives. Screw-up’s can be from registry, viral, heat, weather, power surge, or any number of reasons to be honest. I had a newly installed, brand fracking new internal drive (before my first external purchase) installed. It was NTSF formatted. The third day of use, it failed. I lost over 300 GB of data.
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04-17-09 03:46am
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#17
from Goldfish:
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No harm done GCode. I thought it was funny is all. :-)
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04-07-09 03:12pm
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#9
from Jay G:
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Have to agree with you except for my personal irritation about the mosaic. I'd love to see Americans get as creative (drama, sex game shows and crowds) as the Japanese.
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03-19-09 11:29am
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21Sextury.com
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#1
from Gimondi:
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I appreciate the reply. So it's not just me then. Oh well.
thanks again.
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08-17-11 11:55am
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GCode's Review
from Tree Rodent:
Very good review GC. I agree with your opinions. I joined myself about 4 weeks ago. Membership coming up for renewal and for once I'm going for the extra month.
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08-13-11 06:20am
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40 Something Mag
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from messmer:
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Yes I was a member of Score HD and gave a review of that site. I concentrated mostly on the videos because the pics were all screen caps. The Watermark was there but if I recollect correctly it was on the bottom in a more metallic gray and didn't bother me because it was out of the way. :-)
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12-14-09 09:32am
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from messmer:
(GCode's Reply)
I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question, GCode. The only review site I frequent is PU/TBP. If you mean have I ever been a member of 40 Something Mag the answer is no, because the samples I saw on the Usenet stopped me from subscribing. I always skipped them any time someone posted a batch or two. The models seem great but I couldn't get past that watermark.
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12-13-09 07:50pm
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88 Square
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GCode's Comment
from Denner:
I do not think the girls here are thai - a very few look like thais - anyway. As I remember form earlier membership they are mostly Hongkong-girls and some japanese.
For typical/real thai-pornmodels you might take a look at VideosZ and VideoBox om some Fifth Element-DVDs.
Some of these girls also appears at the sites:
Asian Suck Dolls
Creampie Thais
But the videos from Fifth Element are of better quality.
The same goes for the PixandVideo-bonus site:
Dirty Orientals - very much thai/Bangkok/Pataya- girl - probably bar-girls.
A couple of soft thai-girl sites are:
Tussinee
Tailynn
- and Thainee - both soft and bg/hc
Ther's a site called: Thai Cuties - but I honestly do NOT believe many of the girls here are actually thais..
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04-04-09 05:36am
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abbywinters
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from SueAnn:
Hiya GCode,
By "preview" do you mean the main tour page?
abbywinters.com is actually three different websites now for two main reasons:
a) As one whole site we found we were adding significantly more content than any of our competitors for relatively the same price. Now each niche is a price we feel reflects the quality (real amateurs, not models you've seen on a billion other sites)and creativity (still a firm commitment to zero silicone or make-up) while still remaining competitive - and TBP users can benefit from a huge discount here.
b) Not every customer is interested in all three niches. We split so you get only what you want and don't have to pay for content you won't use.
Currently our monthly updates include 4 or 5 GG's; 16 to 18 Solo masturbation and Double masturbation videos; 12 to 14 new solo models and 8 returning solo models. Plus access to eight years of archived material - that means you'll have so many naked Aussie chicks on your screen you'll have a boner for the next five years or so!
Don't forget you can actually chat to the models themselves in the forum ...and of course you get to read each girl's hand written notes about how she felt before and after the shoot.
Hope that clears some things up for you! I love abbywinters.com - it's been my home for a couple of years now, while others might be catching up to us, we can only get better... and more naughty!
Thanks!
Sue-ann
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09-10-09 12:15am
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GCode's Comment from GCode:
Thanks to everyone who has responded and gave me advice pertaining to join the site. After reading the replies, I went back to the preview and noticed that it is split up. Dunno if I am cool with that. Due to the info provided above and what I know already, I think I'll do a month's stay down the line. Thanks again.
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09-08-09 10:28am
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from RagingBuddhist:
Because I was a member here before they split the site up, I'm grandfathered, meaning I can join all three parts of this site at much cheaper price - but I won't be back until I see comments and/or reviews here telling me something's changed. I'll say it again - My biggest complaint about the site is the seeming trend they have going of saving the nudity until the end of a huge video file. I've got over 1500 video files Abby's saved, and I can easily say that, in the last couple months I was a member, there were way too many files where the first nudity was seen at halfway through or better - sometimes in the last couple of minutes. SueAnn from Abby's tells us that that's just the tease factor. I definitely disagree.
As far as your joining, I would still say it's a good site for someone who's never been there and who's into amateurs. There's a ton of material online. Just don't expect the newer stuff to match the "heat" of the older material.
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09-06-09 06:52am
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abbywinters
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from Capn:
It has been getting less explicit of late.
There is a huge archive of material. The girls are definitely non-glam & range from '2 baggers' to real knockouts.
I find the navigation cumbersome.
It is a real click fest to get what you are after.
The photos are generally poorly lit.
As with most things in life, it is going to depend on your personal preferences.
I am not going to comment on video.
Not really my thing.
Summing up. If you like girl next door types in softcore, give it a whirl.
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09-06-09 03:23am
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from mbaya:
I was a member several years ago, so what I have to say is not current. I didn't care for the weak videos very much. The site is much more about very explicit photos. The girls are natural girl next door types. Most are just ok, some are knockouts. Very much a mixed bag. The site is large, but very well organized. The size makes it extremely hard to see it all. Most of what you see is solo, but there is a fair amount of lesbian. Hope this helps.
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09-05-09 11:06pm
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from littlejoe:
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yah thats it, strange i cant find that link from the preview page. thx much
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07-22-09 05:41pm
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All Japanese Pass
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from lk2fireone:
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REPLY CONTINUED:
My suggestion would be to post your question in the "Threads" section of PU, with details that might focus the possible suggestions.
There are a few PU members that have experience with Japanese porn sites, but I don't know how recent that experience is.
If you are like me, you will probably find All Japanese Pass and JAV HD somewhat disappointing, because they don't display the true beauty of the Japanese models. Which reduces the impact of the videos and photo sets.
Along with the other problems of those sites.
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02-18-16 03:57pm
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All Japanese Pass
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from lk2fireone:
(GCode's Reply)
Sorry, I can't give you any specific sites that best suit your needs.
I was into Japanese models about 6 to 10 years ago, even collected model books and had some knowledge of the AV models.
But that was a while ago.
There are several Japanese sites that are covered by PU/TBP. I would read the PU reviews first, because they give a clearer picture of what the sites are like.
Two main ideas to keep in mind:
Are you comfortable with the mosaic censorship? If yes, that widens the sites that might appeal to you.
Do you currently have a basic knowledge of the AV stars--especially the ones you might want to follow?
If yes, that would help narrow the sites that might appeal to you.
Based on my approach, I normally focus on the best looking models. Then I look at their solo, lez, boy-girl video offerings.
The other types of videos don't hold as much interest for me: group sex, bukkake, etc.
The quality of the videos/pictures can make a big difference (for me, anyway).
You watch the videos or photos of Maria Ozawa at All Japanese Pass, or JAV HD, and you won't realize how fucking lovely she can be in other sites. Not that the quality at All Japanese Pass or JAV HD is terrible, but it's not the excellent quality you can find at some Japanese sites, or the quality that is shown at X-Art in their videos and photosets.
Maria Ozawa was one of the biggest AV stars until she more-or-less retired some years back.
The same is true for how the videos and photos illustrate the other models: their beauty/attractiveness is degraded by the lower quality of the videos and photos.
Again, I am not talking about the lowest quality videos at the two sites: I am talking about their highest quality settings for their videos.
But their "high quality" settings don't show the true beauty of these models.
Which takes away much of the value of the videos and photos.
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02-18-16 03:55pm
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All Over 30
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from Capn:
(GCode's Reply)
Formal, casual, everyday clothes, yes, that is what I prefer.
Well, as I listed in my cons, I don't care for the hardcore or the videos. I am not into lesbianism either TBH.
I don't take it that you are trying to give me a hard time, on the contrary, I enjoy the exchange of opinion. :0)
As regards the video issue.
I don't see a lot of point watching if I don't enjoy it.
It is not as if I am being paid for it. LOL!
Not being an enthusiast for them, I doubt my opinion would be of any use to folk anyway.
I think it fairer just to be up front about it & say I won't pass comment on them.
I suppose I could add some statistics referring to them?
You see where I am on this?
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09-08-09 03:56pm
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from Capn:
(GCode's Reply)
Thanks for your comprehensive response.
Everyone's perceptions & opinions vary
That is what makes a site like this so interesting in being able to exchange views.
What I am trying to get at with the glam clothing remark is that in some cases it can come over as mutton dressed as lamb, especially on a mature site & this one is no exception to that IMO.
I think mature ladies often look at their best in formal or casual attire.
The reason I will probably always refrain from comment on videos in any review I write is I don't care for them. I rarely if ever watch them, so on that basis it would not be fair to comment on them.
By & large, hardcore similarly does not appeal to me.
I hope you can understand better where I am coming from on this! ;0)
:0)
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09-08-09 01:47pm
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