Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Very attractive models, mostly European
- Great video sizes/quality
- Site uses names in the videos now. A+, Gamma.
- Images available (zips)
- Images available in both lower and high resolution, with appropriate sizes for both (30MB or 300MB). A+
Cons:
- Locked videos.
- A pretty small site. All those videos you can't watch don't count towards site size, guys. D-.
- You'll get automatically logged out fairly routinely.
- Way, WAY too much cross-selling baked into the cake.
- I encountered some major variations in download speeds
- Too many "best of" compilations that seem to just be padding.
- Watch for auto checked additional subscription purchases at the payment page. SITE OWNERS- Is it worth that small percentage of affiliate or referral cash to never, ever have a paying customer return to your site after getting burned?
Bottom Line:
This is another offering from the 21sextury folks. Overall it's not a bad site. It's a bit small, but the quality is good and the models are beautiful. The major problem, as is the big problem with the other 21___ sites, is the preponderance of locked videos that you can't view without joining other sites.
On one of Kattie Gold's video's there are 15 advertisements for other sites. They're not discrete, either. The default "Recommended Videos" tab is automatically chosen and shows you the ads, and the "Kattie Gold" tab, you know, the actress you're interested in and are currently viewing, needs to be clicked to see more. Click it and you'll see the other major problem of this site: There are seven videos of the actress listed on the site, but one of them is for the page you're currently viewing, and four of the clips have lock icons on them. So in reality there are only two other videos available, but seven are shown.
A more obvious example is someone more popular and who has done more work. Click on Aletta Ocean's thumbnail to view her scenes, and there are 25 pages of the actress. Wow. Twenty five pages. Begin clicking at page one and you'll quickly realize most seem to be "best of" compilations that involve short clips of her along with other actresses in unrelated scenes, or that the scenes are locked and unavailable. I started at page five and clicked through page 14, and there was one clip available for downloading. Ten pages of thumbnails of the actress, and only one clip available for downloading.
Worse? It wasn't even really one of her scenes, but one of the "best of" clips.
I encountered some substantial speed fluctuations at times. I tested other sites and my connection and speeds were fine, so I'm not sure if it's a problem or an intentional measure similar to auto logouts. Not a dealbreaker, but something to be noted.
I don't really understand the automatic logouts. It seems to happen at least once a day. It seems like it would be more secure to allow the user to control the logout, because if a username and password combination is in continual use, an attempt at hacking and logging in using stolen usernames and passwords would be automatically rejected. I'm sure it's something related to bandwidth or the like, but I've also been logged out at the same time I was downloading a file on the same computer. It seems odd that a user actively and continually using the legitimate account wouldn't have to worry about such things.
I don't want it to appear that the bad outweighs the good, but the site has so much potential that the bad is extremely obvious. Overall I like the site and would recommend it IF only the available videos were shown and it required a simple click if the user interested in looking at other sites where you could spend additional money to see more work by the same actress. Having to scroll through and click past on the actual site I've paid money to join is very irritating, though, especially when one discovers that the listed, clickable actress only has locked scenes.
Would I recommend? Probably not as is unless you're looking for every piece of work from one actress. It's a bit small and irritating for the price. As a part of a combined network with all the ubiquitous locked-icon 21sextury and 21sextreme clips available? Yes.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Good looking (mostly euro) actresses
- Multiple sizes of videos available to download in newer clips
- No download limits that I encountered
- Good download speeds
- Kink brought to you by the folks from 21 Sextury
Cons:
- Video count is huge, but padded somewhat by compilations
- Surprisingly glitchy site
- "Lock" icons over unavailable videos (see below)
- No naming scheme for downloaded files
- Not terribly "extreme"
Bottom Line:
A decent but fairly vanilla "extreme" site. Granted there is some fisting, some bondage, some urine here and there, a couple dozen clips of older, lower-quality shemales with men and women, and an old/young angle with MF and FF scenes (and apparently some puking that I thankfully never came across according to another reviewer), but overall it's pretty tame. The eyeball test indicated a great deal of the site is simple female masturbation and stuff you'd find at the sister site "21sextury" or even Team Skeet (literally- it looked like the same filming and directing style). That's not bad, but the site presents itself as extreme while just coming across as an excuse to use content that would otherwise be fine on another nearly identical site or simply on a larger combined network including both sites. The site agrees with me, unfortunately, because I discovered more than a few of the 21sextreme videos with 21sextury watermarks.
It's another site without any naming system for the downloads. You can download clips, but you'll end up with a folder full of "88756_03_HD" type files. They work fine, and I'm sure it's convenient for the owners, but there is no useful information in that for the end user other than the first five-string number representing a particular movie that all the clips were pulled from (#03 in this case). That's a made up example just to make the point, btw.
Video quality is good even with the non-HD clips, and file sizes are appropriate for the resolution.
I ran into a glitch here and there. I would discover an unknown actress in a scene with a known actress, and clicking the unknown actress' name/link would take me to her page. Unfortunately, her page showed her thumbnail but not videos. When I would refresh or return to the page the scenes would appear. I suspect some sort of javascript / flash error. Some actresses' names/links would take you to pages other than #1 when clicking, too. Whee!
Biggest complaint: Similar to the sister site "21sextury," the site shows all the videos available across the owner's sites, and not just the videos available to view/download on the site *you* paid for. There will be lock icons over the scenes you can't have, and those locked scenes will quickly begin to irritate you. For example, there are four pages of 50 or so scenes of Cherry Jul available, but only three unique non-compilations are available for download. The rest have little lock icons over them indicating that yes, they exist, but no, you can't download any of them without paying for a subscription at a separate site. Cameron Cruz is the similar, with four pages totalling 40+ videos, but only four or so are available for downloading with the subscription you bought.
Bottom line- Would I join again? Possibly, but it would have to be at a greatly discounted rate OR after the three "network" sites are combined into the full network they clearly are meant to be.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- No download limits (data-wise) that I encounterd
- Multiple video sizes
- .zip photo sets for shoots
Cons:
- Actress thumbnails with no content available
- Videos have no names, only numbers.
- No limits, but download links in DTA die when the site logs you out every day
- Newer photo sets are huge to enormous
Bottom Line:
Not a bad site, but pretty disappointing when you spend any time there.
You'll get a folder full of 32234_01_HD type videos, and no idea who is in them or what they're about.
Actresses are listed and thumbnailed even when there is *NO* content available. Example: Eveline Dellai shows three scenes, but every scene has a lock icon on it. If you want them you'll need to join these other TWO sites. Betty Style has four pages of videos, and there are up to nine videos on each page. Here's the problem: On page one there are two videos actually available. One on p2. One on p3. One on p4. So five videos available out of thirty shown, with the rest all having lock icons on them and you don't have access to them unless you pay to join the other two sites.
I understand wanting to show users that there is more content available and that you'd happily sell them another subscription, but it would be better to have a "MORE CONTENT AVAILABLE AT OUR OTHER SITES!!!" link below her image.
If an actress has zero scenes available on your site, which happens to be the same site that I paid money for and have access to, don't show her photo and don't have a clickable link pretending you do. Don't do it dozens (hundreds, maybe thousands, when you count actresses that may have a scene or two but the rest locked) of times, especially.
Strange choices regarding what's on the site, too. You get ladies wrestling in an actual ring with your membership (saw a lot of those offered), but a middle aged MILF having sex has a lock on it.
It automatically logged me out every evening around 8pm, and queued downloads in DTA would fail. This isn't exclusive to this site, but it was much more noticeable since it seems to be on a schedule. Is it like a restaurant where other users can't have a seat at the server until I leave, or is it just a good way to try to make people stay one more month? FWIW, it does the opposite for me, and I doubt I'm alone. More than likely I'll get the actresses I like and remember "Oh yeah, their site logged me off and killed my downloads every evening" when I'm tempted to re-join.
A lot of the non-euro content looked very familiar and like scenes you'd find at Videobox. I'd be shocked if it's exclusive. On the bright side, they don't have pages and pages of thumbnails with lock icons on them that let you know you can buy scenes at Videobox.
There are often photo sets available for viewing and downloading, but the .zip files are as big as a video clip. 250MB or the non HD, and 1GB for the HD wasn't unusual. Someone with a fiberoptic connection will have to chime in on quality comparisons, but non-HD photo zips should be under 100MB. I think even at MetArt the big files were only occasionally 500MB or so, and that's a photo site.
Overall it's not a bad, and it has a lot of content, but it's tainted with bad decisions. Would I recommend? Maybe. It's a decent resource for some good euro actresses.
Would I join again? Definitely not at full price. PU's $20? Doubtful. $5 for a month? Maybe.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- The actress' name is associated with a website.
- Photos are available for viewing for some of the corresponding videos.
- Not all of the dozen videos are "behind the scenes" or interview filler clips.
- No download limits that I encountered, but the entire site's total content is probably under 5GB (I'd wager closer to 2) so how would there be?
Cons:
- It will take you just about the same amount of time to read this review as it would to scroll through the entire website.
- Website won't load at times.
- Photos, but no photo zips that I could find.
- The photos are sometimes just screenshots of the low-res video.
- The videos are low-res 360p clips that aren't worth watching.
- It appears that they haven't updated in years.
Bottom Line:
I really don't see the point of this site. I'm not just saying that, either. I truly, honestly, 100% don't see why someone would go through any time and trouble to make a site that has a handful of clips, a few photos that you have to individually click, wait for the script to pull up, and then click a few more times to download if you have any interest, and little to nothing more. I especially don't understand it when it's... Okay, okay. That's not entirely true. I understand that it seems to be little more than a blatant cash grab and exists in the hope that there are a few suckers out there who might want to have all of Abbey Brooks' material, and that one of those suckers might spend the money joining the site for one month. Either that or it's just crappy padding for a similarly overall horrible network. Take your pick.
According to IAFD, Ms. Brooks is still working and has nearly 200 movies to her name. That doesn't count photos shoots, and I'm sure she's got well over 100 of those in her past, too.
So, If I had to guess, I'd guess that a studio/site bought up the name and owned a few licensed clips of the actress. There ARE some clips the studio owns of said actress, so it's presented as the actress' website.
The dozen or so video clips are stated as being 360p. It's probably technically correct, but I've seen 360p clips elsewhere that, while not great, are still fairly watchable. For simplicity's sake just think of a low-res tube site or a crappy gif flashing in an advertisement. That's essentially what you can expect for video quality of most of the clips here.
If that's too crisp and wonderful for you, there is a lower quality option as well.
Photos exist, but I never saw a link for zip files. If you like a set, be prepared to click through each image individually to allow it to load so that you can choose "save as" for every one you want. It looked like the photos were often just screenshots, too.
On the bright side, I didn't run into any download limits when downloading the three videos that looked worthwhile. They weren't, btw. The video quality was borderline unwatchable once I tried to watch them, although in fairness I knew it said 360p when I clicked to download them. Nonetheless, I didn't encounter any download limits when downloading the 300-500MB worth of clips.
Bottom line: It's an almost uniquely lousy site. It's either a cynical money-grab or filler for a network of similar cynical money-grab sites. It's the first site I've come across in a long, long time that deserves a score much lower than 50, and I only gave it the extra point so that it wouldn't be viewed as some knee-jerk score out of spite. That single point is there to show that some thought went into why this site is so bad. Frankly, the site shouldn't even exist. The unwatchable clips could easily be part of one of the studio's other sites as some sort of worthless "bonus" content that no one intentionally clicks on.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Lots of content
- Quite a bit of variety.
- Frequent updates
- Photos available with the video sets
- HD videos available
- Download managers allowed
Cons:
- Lots of behind the scenes filler
- Scenes probably aren't always exclusive
- Navigation can be a bit irritating
- In house biller
Bottom Line:
Milehighmedia.com is a megasite offering quite a few different niches and a strong value. There's everything from milfs to lesbians to masturbation to bi MMF scenes, and everything in between. With the pornusers discount it's worth a shot because you're going to find something you like, and probably a lot of it.
I realize I mostly just wrote the "bottom line" section right at the beginning of my review, but that's okay. There's very little wrong with the site, and it's well worth spending the $15 to try it out and another $15 every few months to see what's new.
The videos are generally filmed competently with good angles and lighting, and they are offered in multiple sizes. I don't remember seeing any 4K offered, but there were 720 and 1080p choices available for downloading. There are usually other sizes, too, and the 540p still seems to be the best choice for finding the best balance between size and clarity. Older videos will have non-HD choices, but that's sort of to be expected.
The complaints are few. Not using Epoch or similar for billing is one. To cancel you'll be directed to "fameaid.com" and enter your info there. Not a huge strike against them, but I always feel better using Epoch.
The "tour" leaves a lot to be desired. A huge site and you get one page of image stills and are directed to the pay portal when you click on one of the other page numbers? You'll get a LOT more buyers if you let the consumers see what they're about to spend their money on, guys.
One of the worse things about the site is the navigation. There is lots of content, and each page will have thumbnails showing what's available. The problem is that the options for moving forward or backward are extremely limited. I remember ten or fifteen pages being linked from the page you're on, so if you're on page 12 and want to go to page 44 because you closed the window and are starting over and need to get back where you stopped browsing, you have to click multiple times to get there. It's more an annoyance than anything, but it's something I noticed.
There are filters to prevent you from seeing genres you're not into. Unfortunately there are no filters that I could find that would remove the behind the scenes videos from showing up everywhere.
Bottom line part II: Would I recommend? Yes. A large, mostly user-friendly site that offers good value for the money with the PU discount.
And thank you, webmaster, for not incorporating expiring links for paying customers. I suspect that level of user friendliness is one of the biggest reasons customers become repeat customers, and I would wager that allowing paying members access to the content they paid to have access to is probably a great way to discourage piracy of your product, too.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
$5 promos in your spam box
Lots of attractive actresses. Some well known, some less well known.
Good site to build an immediate collection of various and quality material.
Very good variety. Euro, milf, hairy, old/young lesbian, bisexual MMF, etc.
No download limits
Good speeds
Multiple streaming and download options
Cons:
Like the sister site Euro Angels, the encoding is strange on some videos and seems to be much, much too large when compared to other videos of similar length on the same site.
I can't confirm, but I believe another reviewer said the scenes are shared with another separate site, so this might be considered a best-of or greatest-hits situation.
The "favorites" option works poorly. A set amount displays on-screen and there are no page numbers to see the rest. To see them you have to remove actresses and refresh.
Not a huge con, but an actresses' total available scene count can be deceptive since they'll include behind-the-scenes, cumshots, foreplay, and other DVD-extra type clips in the total count. Some people may enjoy those, but it sucks to see that (arbitrary name) Bailey Bae is in four scenes, but when you click into her page you see that three of them are BTS or compilations and she's really only in one actual scene.
Bottom Line:
I was surprised at how good this site is when I'd recently been a bit disappointed at Euro Angels and its associated network.
This offers a tremendous number of quality videos, good speeds, and photos from a variety of niches, and it's offered as a single site.
One of the things I was most surprised at was the directing/lighting/camera-work in a number of the clips was so professional. I haven't joined any of the couples hardcore sites like Erotica X yet, but there were scenes I'd imagine were very similar to their offerings.
The sweet spot for downloading seems to be their 540p clips. I downloaded some 720p of my favorites, but the quality doesn't seem quite as good as it should be at that resolution. Their 1080p is the same. I'm not sure if they're using lower-grade HD cameras or what, but it often doesn't make sense to get their highest quality 2gb+ 1080p offerings.
Photos are available in zip files for download but the file size often seems way too large for the quality and quantity. It's still probably worth getting your favorites, but not up to the standards set by the rest of the site.
If you're so inclined, the 100+ Bimaxx-quality MMF bisexual clips in HD is probably worth the $5 by itself.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
**Maybe the best website I've seen from a "collector" standpoint. Well done, owner/webmaster.**
Attractive older women, most in their 30s and 40s.
Good download speeds (can saturate my 6Mbps DSL).
Not only allows but encourages download managers.
Multiple video formats (MPG, MP4, MOV, WMV, and Flash).
Two sizes of photos in downloadable ZIP files or galleries.
Some surprises here and there in models you might not have seen before (we're looking at you, Scarlet).
A fair price with the PU discount for what is possibly considered borderline niche material (older women).
Cons:
It's a matter of taste, but most content is masturbation. I'd wager 30% or less is hardcore MF content.
Another matter of taste, but there seems to be quite a few fake boobs.
The HD videos are less sharp than those offered from some other sites, but the reduced sizes seem very reasonable for the quality. Probably a decent tradeoff.
The high-res photos are the same. They don't offer the incredible resolution of some of the artsy softcore sites, but they're still high quality and probably a reasonable tradeoff on size/bandwidth.
Bottom Line:
I've never seen a website set up to allow me to grab the pictures and videos of particular models so easily. I used a download manager and could click on the woman's name/image, go to her associated page, and, by using the filter option for downloading specific items, I could right click and add that model's pics and videos links to the download queue simultaneously. No individual clicking on links, no wading through multiple pages to get to each separate set, and no dead links a couple of hours after adding them.
From their FAQs:
"Download as much as you can, we encourage that."
FWIW, and if the webmaster (or other sites' WMs) is reading this, I didn't have much interest in the Nubiles.net sister-site, but this approach encouraging customers to add to their collections will make me join.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- 100 or so videos
- Photos and photo zips available for some clips
- Some clips that I would guess are fairly exclusive
Cons:
- Small site
- Pages wouldn't always load or load correctly.
- Horrible 360p maximum resolution for most videos
- Of the 100 or so videos, there are fewer than 40 photo sets
- Lots of filler. BTS, masturbation, etc.
Bottom Line:
I'm a pretty big Ashley Fires fan, and this site was a disappointment to me. There were some keeper videos and photos here and there, but there doesn't seem to be much of a motivation to keep members. Or, I suppose, to get new ones when you factor in the notion that people might be leaving reviews telling other potential subscribers what to expect and why it's not worth spending their money on.
One of the worst things, and that's really saying a lot for an OpenLife Network site, is that there are more than a few photos that, when clicked on, are what appear to be the thumbnails blown up to whatever "photo" size they're supposed to be. Blocky and jarringly bad, and not something that someone would intentionally post as a photo. Think of the Japanese blurring of naughty bits. Now apply it to the entire photo. It looks like that.
If you're still not getting a good image (ha) of what I'm trying to convey, go to your picture collection, open any thumbnail image, and press ctl and "+" ten or twelve times.
That.
Pros? Sure. Pros include having some photo sets you may not have seen before, and offering what I have to assume are fairly exclusive video clips. The problem, at least regarding the exclusive video clips, is who really cares? There are video clips of performances in strip clubs, which I guess is fine. Somebody may really, REALLY want to see that sort of stuff, so good for them for offering it. Except it's in glorious 360p, which is nearly unwatchable. But that's not the worst of it. Part of the padding is giving subscribers the exclusive opportunity to watch exclusive video clips like film of the audience during the filming of said exclusive performances in strip clubs. In 360p.
Yep. You get access to exclusive video of old men with mustaches and balding heads as they stand behind the barricades to watch strippers. Even better, you get to watch the old, balding men in 360p.
(I'd never considered that low-res stripper POV, as in from the POV of the stripper, might be a fetish, but I guess you should join this site right now if that's your thing.)
There are some HD videos. It looks like about half, which is nice, but since the site doesn't appear to be updating any longer (there are no dates associated with the videos that I saw, and the rep confirmed it back in 2014), it will remain half for the rest of time.
Sadly, the webmaster's 2014 reply in the comment section to the right sort of sums up the problem. Quote: " I love Ashley Fires. Lets hope that she comes back with new content! That would be awesome!"
But IAFD shows Ashley is still working, and still doing work for myxxxpass.com as recently as this year, and myxxxpass.com is affiliated with the openlife network (more about that in my future tragi-comedy Manuel Ferrara review, though).
She has worked. She's apparently even worked for, if not THESE people, people directly connected to these people. It's never going to be on this site, though. This site is old, stale, outdated stuff, and it looks like there will never be any updates.
It's not the worst Open Life Network site I've encountered, but it might have suffered more because of it. They look like they sort of tried on this site, and it comes across as equally crappy when compared to ___________ (insert almost any other openlife blatant cashgrab site here).
They really, truly tried with ashleyfires.com, and it's still not worth joining.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Billing through ccbill
- Lots of models
- Lots of different bodies, hair styles, colors, etc.
- Quite a few stars before they were big
Cons:
- Not entirely exclusive?
- That ATK underarm thing.
- No distinct names of downloads
- Ads inside
- Fairly frequent logouts
Bottom Line:
I thought it's a pretty good idea to have an "archive" site for content going back ten plus years. I'm not personally convinced it should be priced as high as it is considering the quality of the older stuff is often fairly low, but there is a large amount of overall content available.
I'm not sure it's exclusive material. I don't doubt it's likely exclusive to the ATK brand, but some of the sets looked like I've seen them before on the other ATK sites.
More of the ATK underarm fetish present. I've joined three of their sites now, and it's definitely not coincidence. It's not so bad to be offensive, but it's very noticeable if you're not into underarms.
As long as we're here, there are some hairy underarms in there as well. Again, not enough to be a deal-breaker even for those of us who aren't into it, but know you're going to see some when you're browsing. Or, if you're into hairy (or not) underarms, go buy an annual subscription right now because this is an excellent resource.
Numerous different studios taking the photos. I thought it was interesting to be able to pick out specific photographers/studios before even clicking the link to take you to the sets. It's neat how distinctive DDF (and others) methods and styles are, and also neat how you might not have noticed it until you see them lumped together with other studios'.
There are videos here and there, but it's very much a photo site. The quality of the sets I looked at varied from okay to good, but it's an archive site so that is forgivable. Even in the videos I'd guess the majority of the content is interview and/or masturbation with a bit of lesbian or BG hardcore here and there. Don't go into it for the videos. Accept them as added benefits of the models' sets that you liked.
It's fairly common to have 50+ images in a .zip file that is only 5-15MB in size. Don't expect zoomable MetArt shots. Again, everything is tempered by the fact that these are archives and you joined an archive site, so it's forgivable.
The files will often share a name, so if you download a hundred sets featuring "Jennifer," and there are a dozen models named Jennifer, you'll have no idea which Jennifer is which or what is happening in any of them until you go through each individually.
Bottom line: Not a bad site, and a lot of pleasant surprises finding models I'd forgotten about or didn't know about at all. Would I recommend? Sure, but. The "but" being if I found out all the sets were shared with another larger ATK site. It would be silly to not just join that site, wouldn't it?
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Good search engine
- Tremendous number of models and sets.
- Downloadable .zip files for photos, download links for videos
- Looks like the newer sets have three resolutions available for .zip downloads
- Links to site's sets by specific studio/photographer
- Great selection of women, body types, hairstyles, etc.
- No retouching that I could see, although that could be a con in some cases.
- No problems opening multiple tabs of a model's sets.
Cons:
- Underarm fetish is prominent
- Ads inside, and not just to other ATK sites
- Logs you out fairly often.
- No distinguishing features for downloads. A dozen photo .zips of Charisma will each be named the same "Charisma_all.zip"
- Art =/= "holding fruit and/or wearing a hat"
Bottom Line:
A pretty good site with most of its focus on photos but quite a few videos available as well, and some videos are available in HD (newer clips I'd imagine). There are lots of hidden gems, and you'll come across early sets from models like Lucie Theodovora and Addison O'Reilly in addition to hundreds of unknowns.
Lots of girls, and lots of different bodies. It's a nice way to appreciate all the various shapes and wonderfulness.
There are links to the photographers' sets, so if you like the way one set looks you can click on the photographer's name and see his others on the site.
Less good:
Lots of average girls, so you're just as likely to see below average as you are above.
If videos are available they seem to be mostly masturbation. That's not all bad, of course, but know what to expect going in.
I think I saw some of the same models' sets in Aunt Judy, but I'm not 100% positive. They may have just looked extremely familiar. This didn't happen often, but there were one or two models' sets that I'm pretty sure I'd seen elsewhere. Maybe the webmaster can verify this.
Like Aunt Judy's, it's sort of comical to watch for the models lifting their arms within the first dozen or so frames. It becomes so obvious that you notice when the girl DOESN'T do it more than when she does. There are some fairly hairy women in there, too, so be aware of what you might stumble across if you join. Not my thing, but I do think it should be advertised more. Of course, it might already be a known quantity in the underarm community and it's a way of not pushing away other customers.
Apparently you get a folder when they haven't made a .zip file for a set, and you can't create another zip file until you delete one of the .zip files you had to make because they didn't. "You have more than five zips in your folder. Please delete some of them to continue your custom zip selection." That seems like a weird way to do things. Frankly, not having a simple zip file to download without "creating" when the majority of the other sets on the site have one seems pretty weird, too.
Models will be in multiple scenes but link associated with her name leads nowhere. (Amber in Paulina scenes for example).
The majority of "artistic" photos are amusing. They look a lot like all the other sets, but the lighting is worse and there might be fruit, hats, or a barn in the frame. Because art. That's not really what the site seems to push itself as, so it's forgivable.
Would I recommend? Sure, why not? It's a decent photo site with a lot of variety.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
Preface: Different strokes for different folks.
- I cannot recommend this site enough if you're into old, out of shape, marginally attractive, downright unattractive, and/or outright fat and ugly women, many with varying degrees of three-day stubble hairy armpits, never-shaven hairy armpits that they try to lick, hairy crotches, hairy thighs, and hairy calves.
- Some good looking women here and there.
- Download managers allowed, but see cons.
- Some sets have high quality photos (50-100mb+/set) for optimal viewing of all those hairy legs, thighs, and armpits.
- Often .zip files are available for images.
- Some of the models have dozens of sets available.
- Some of the less attractive models are made slightly more appealing by wearing age appropriate clothing/lingerie and seeming to enjoy what they're doing.
Cons:
- Only 10-20% of models are, ahem, "traditionally" attractive. Think Victoria Tyler, Mimi Moore, Kayla Synz, Daryl Hannah, Heidi Hanson (still with hairy armpits, though), Betsy Blue, etc. The other 80% or so are Saturday afternoon at Wal-Mart.
- A truly shocking number of old, out of shape, marginally attractive, downright unattractive women, and a great deal of outright fat and ugly women, many with varying degrees of three-day stubble hairy armpits, never-shaven hairy armpits that they try to lick, hairy crotches, hairy thighs, and hairy calves.
- Download managers will yield a 400 error after X amount of time. I don't know what X is, but I suspect it's logging the member out or changing the long and elaborate download links since there were instances where the download failed while I wasn't required to log back in.
- Quite a few models have no picture or video sets, and lots of videos have no preview image whatsoever.
Cons continued below...
Bottom Line:
- Many (most?) sets have standard (7-10mb/zip) or medium resolution images. (10-50mb/set). Larger sets are sometimes available.
- Sometimes you get the extra step or two of having to tell the website you want to create a zip file of the images that you can then download.
- Depending on your interests there is more softcore posing than hardcore, but there is a bit of hardcore here and there.
- Did I mention the main focus seems to be on hairy crotches, armpits, thighs, and legs.
- .zip file names are shortened to be unrecognizable or identical. Heidi Hanson's sets might be "hei013XYZ_838320.zip" or dozens of "heidi_all.zip", which might be exactly the same thing Heidi Smith (made up) set's are named.
- It wasn't unusual to go through a page of sixteen or so models before seeing one that looked like it might be worth clicking.
- In case you missed it, lots and lots and lots of body hair.
*END CONS*
Bottom line?
There's a substantial amount of hairy leg and hairy armpit fetish material on a site that is, according to TBP, simply a mature site. The armpit/leg hair fetish angle may be played down, but when the models are licking their own bushy armpits or a lesbian scene focuses (literally, the rest of the photo is out of focus) on one model licking the other model's hairy legs... well, it's hard to deny. You've got a hairy fetish site.
Again, different strokes for different folks. I like a nicely kept bush, and don't mind it going beyond and behind what is typically kept these days (Jamie Lynn on the site is a good example).
Thigh hair? No thanks. Calves? Put your pants back on, please.
I'd never, and still haven't, considered the underarm genre, so I was a bit taken aback when it began to dawn on me that nearly every model has her arms up to expose her stubbly, hairy, or sometimes shaved (oh thank goodness) underarms within the first five or six images.
This is a mature women body hair fetish site, and to a certain degree an armpit site. When it becomes a bit of a game to notice how many shots into the set the woman is raising her arms above her head to show the cameraman her underarms, you've probably got an armpit site.
(It's comical to reach the point where you're surprised when a model *did* shave her armpits and legs.)
Intentional armpit stubble is a new one for me, btw. /shudder/ Again, different strokes. There's nothing wrong with that, but go ahead and market yourself as the fetish site you are. Sure you won't get folks like me to sign up, but I won't be signing up again, anyway. You probably will get the people who ARE looking for that sort of thing to sign up more than once, especially once they initially know that's what your site is about.
There are a few good models here and there, and a decent amount of content overall (and 10% or so are not only attractive but also really nicely shot with business attire, lingerie, etc.) but I doubt I'd come back now that I'm aware of the hair-everywhere aspect.
tl;dr -
I'm giving a slightly better than average score because I found some previously unknown sets of a few attractive models and the site isn't bad once you accept what you're logging in to, but please consider marketing yourself as a hairy old woman fetish site.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Attractive models.
- Tasteful settings.
- Nicely filmed, but a con at times.
- Photo zips, too.
- Quite often enthusiastic and believable action. The scenes with Szilvia Lauren are possibly worth the price of admission. Holy cow.
- Epoch as a secondary biller.
- No download limits that I could tell.
- Decent size site. 70+ pages of 12 scenes per page.
Cons:
- Navigation
- Questionable lighting and cinematography at times
- Not much visual difference to my eyes between 720p and 1080p videos
- Download managers are mostly useless.
- No photo quality options
- CONSTANT login requests.
- Not necessarily a con for everyone, but pretty much all white girls. Quite a few extremely attractive white girls, mind you, but don't expect too much variation beyond blonde, brunette, and redheads.
- Tasteful lighting and filming, but some scenes are just a step above late night movies on Cinemax.
Bottom Line:
A nice looking glamcore site that I'd been considering for a while, and I'm pleased overall with the content and glad I finally gave it a shot. Quite a few scenes looked like they could have some sort of relationship with the crew responsible for filming some of the Sexyhub /Dane Jones sites.
BUT...
- Constant login requests.
At one point it let me choose a video, choose the download option, and immediately logged me out after clicking the 720p option. The video didn't begin to download and I had to re-login after the next click one or two seconds after choosing the video.
Inexcusable.
- Worse still were the login requests that led to an "Oops! It's broken! Try again later" page that was there after refreshing the page without needing to log in again.
- Poor navigation.
Want to see all the models in alphabetical order?
Go to the "Models" pulldown, and look for the... wait, there's not an option. Only "Top Rated, Most Viewed, etc." So you click on "Top Rated" and see that there's another pulldown on the following page that has "All" under the "Sort By" option.
And a few days later, after one of your dozens of login requests, you realize the "Models" pulldown button itself is a link to all the models.
- Dead links
I suspect these are related to their attempts at site security and their constant login requests.
Lots of 404 "Page Not Found" errors even when you're logged in and not prompted to log in again.
Click on a video and the 404 error comes up. Hit page refresh/f5 a moment later and the page is fine. Very irritating.
- Encoding
The 480p videos really seem to be the sweet spot for size and quality. I was surprised that the 1080p clips don't look that much better than the 720p ones in most cases. I suspect it has to do with the lighting and whatever filters they use to soften and romanticize the clips.
- Download managers work if you consider "work" to just mean "they can be used to download a few clips simultaneously just like if you didn't use one." The system logs you out so frequently that any clips that take more than a few minutes to begin will fault out and download a "default.htm" result. The site *will* allow you to resume a clip that's only halfway downloaded, though, so that's a plus, but I wouldn't say download managers really, truly work with this site. Not in the sense that you can load up the night before and wake up the next morning with a dozen completions.
-Bottom line-
A pretty good if occasionally irritating glamcore site. Lots of nice looking "couples" filmed in soft lighting with good backgrounds. Lots of solo and lesbian scenes (I'd guess over half of all scenes), and apparently very capable hair and makeup artists since I saw some actresses I don't often find attractive that looked quite nice in their scenes.
I'd join again.
*** To get to Epoch as the biller, (thanks and credit goes to malikstarks for the tip re: Bangbros user comments):
If Epoch isn't the primary biller, enter everything correctly except for your credit card's expiration date on the initial purchase page. Make it a year in the future, and the system will reject it. Do it two or so more times and they'll send you to the Epoch site.***
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- An almost inconceivable amount of content
- Newer stuff is HD
- Apparently the entire Videosz.com library but with Bang watermarks
- No download limits
- Long timeouts for download links
- No constant auto-logouts.
- Content dates back at least to 80s in some cases, maybe earlier.
- Original content specific to Bang
- Streaming and downloading available
Cons:
- No photos that I've seen, but I haven't looked too hard.
- Older content isn't HD (not much of a con because technological limitations)
- Some actresses will be listed but won't have any content available
- Old content is pretty poor quality
- Ads inside
Bottom Line:
Holy cow what a site. It's enormous. The site claims 117,000+ videos, and I believe it. It is one of those sites that you join and think to yourself, "Yes, this is how this entire thing is supposed to work." Search for an actress and (most of the time) there she is. Often with a dozen or more clips available. Want content from an actress? They've probably got it.
There are options to choose "channels" such as "Bang Originals", "Glamcore", "Hot Step Moms", and others, and there are tags to direct you to other clips. I find those a bit too vague, but something that is really nice is that the clip usually has the name of the actress, the name of the movie, the name of the series, and the name of the studio all underneath the streamable video, and all clickable. You also have options to make playlists and create favorites.
Even with the most recent Bang Original clips I've only seen up to 1080p video downloads offered, so that might be a con for some. I find the video quality to be acceptable and appropriate for the size, but most of the time the smaller 720p offerings look just as good to my eyes. Most of the middle-to-older content seems to be available in up to 540p, and it looks decent considering the source material. The oldest stuff is 360p or worse, and it looks it. That's not a dealbreaker, but it's something you'll encounter often if you look at actresses who worked a couple of decades ago.
Every video that I clicked on was available for streaming.
The content is apparently shared with Videosz.com, so if you join Bang you get all of the other site but not vice versa. I think there's a good case to be made to join Bang over Videosz for that reason, but I'm not a member of Videosz.com and can't say what may or may not be an advantage to lean the other way.
Every video's page has ads on the lowest part of the page, which counts against the site every time. I paid to be in here, guys. If you want to offer *me* discounts, make a page I can click on to re-direct and join with the affiliate link. Those ads aren't there to save *me* money, even though they ultimately may. Those ads are there to make the website money off of the same people who have already paid money to get past the paywall.
A nice touch is that there are additional actress suggestions underneath every video that is being streamed or downloaded. I'm not entirely sure if they are related to anything or might just share some similar tags, but it's a good way to discover actresses you might not know about.
The actresses will sometimes have duplicate scenes, but it's fairly forgivable just because of the vast amount of content available. Many actresses I clicked have over 100 clips to download. Wow.
The search option works well, and if you give it a moment while you type it will try to match your entry with suggestions in real time.
Also, it might be worth a look around to see what other sites share content. I saw some stuff from partyhardcore and some other familiar content, so you might save money at the other sites while also getting thousands of other clips.
Bottom line? One of the best adult sites I know of. Fairly vanilla but with wildly varying movies available, and it includes some raunchy stuff like gonzo, shemale, etc., too.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Probably the biggest player in an underserved niche
- Lots of content dating back years (300+ scenes according to TBP), but be aware that updates are sparse
- 1080p and 720p available for most if not all content
- .zip files for photos
- Quite a few big name Euro women
- Download managers (downthemall) work
- Not degrading or humiliation based.
Cons:
- Infrequent updates
- Went through a bizarre party / orgy stage and a page or two of content is dedicated to that
- Files have no distinguishing naming characteristics
- A bit pricey when it used to be part of a network (IIRC - see comments below)
- Uninspired acting/directing in many scenes and too many scenes where the woman is nearby but not really participating or even really invited.
Bottom Line:
Not a bad site and one of the main options for the genre, but it has some things about it that aren't ideal.
I joined back in 2011 or so, and rejoined recently. I was pretty disappointed to see there weren't many updates in the five or so years in between my memberships. Don't misunderstand, though. There's lots of content, just not if you've been a member before.
I think it was part of the Tainster network at one time, and the network offered tons of Euro MF/MFF content along with the bi site. Now you just get a membership to a gay site called guysgocrazy.com, too. That's fine since there are bound to be some gay guys who are straight-curious (is that even a thing?), but there's not really any incentive for guys who are more into women to stay on for more than a month, while bimaxx being in the Tainster network would probably be something to consider an annual membership for.
The new videos are all named exactly the same thing when you download depending on the resolution you choose. Interestingly, it's the same naming structure as Jim Slip's site. I'm guessing there is a central figure creating or managing these sites that sets them up this way. Regardless, it's a bad way of doing it. You'll end up with a folder full of files all named "1080p_complete" and with no idea what the scene is. It wasn't always this way, btw. My old files have the date (filming or release I'd imagine) and resolution. Not much better, but at least you could tell they were different without looking at the size column.
The content is fairly predictable hitchhiker, TV repairman, etc. setups. There are some good and passionate scenes hidden in the humdrum ones where there is actual energy between the men and women, but unfortunately there are way too many scenes with obviously homosexual men who are doing their homosexual male thing while a woman is sitting nearby and not welcome or necessary.
It's kind of surprising to realize how decent the acting and directing in the Reality Kings "Moms Bang Teens" scenes are, and that type of guidance would be very useful for this site.
The site went through an orgy period that I found ridiculous and awful. I doubt I was the only one since it looks like they moved away from that and back to the couples +1 scenes.
Bottom line- It's worth a try since the good outweighs the bad and since there aren't many choices in this genre.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Attractive, clean models
- No connection problems or other hiccups
- Competent direction (a step or two above typical pizza delivery porn setup)
- Very good videography
- Small file sizes are decent quality, which is good because of a sister comment in the cons
- Download managers are allowed
- No download limits that I encountered
- Photos are available
Cons:
- HUGE video sizes for anything HD.
- Site design seems really nice and clean until you actually try to download something.
- Ads. I paid to be here, guys. Want to run a site with ads? Run it at a reduced cost with the subsidies.
- Poor choices on site design
- Gets predictable after the first three or four videos you watch.
Bottom Line:
Blacked is, as you may have guessed, black men having sex with white women. It's a much different approach than Blacks on Blondes (and thankfully lacks the download limit that dogfart claims doesn't exist) in that the setting is usually a well-dressed, well-spoken woman in a nice home being seduced by, or seducing, a clean --- although often heavily tattooed --- black man.
It's a good site and I recommend it if you have any interest. The models are attractive and often dressed up in nice clothes or lingerie, and the scenes are filmed extremely well. It's a very good buy if you like the premise and or actresses.
It's not a perfect site yet, though.
It's still sort of small, although I obviously think it's reasonably sized and mature enough to join.
If you're on anything under 25Mbps you should expect to spend two or three months there if you want the HD and 4K clips. It's a bit ridiculous, really. I can't see much of a reason for there to be a jump from 500MB for the very crisp and clear SD version to a marginally better 720 version that is 3GB.
The videos are fairly predictable, and it seems like it's nearly the same script for all of them. This premise, the woman does A, the black guy does B, the woman and black guy do C, D, E, and F, and at some point around C or D the wife will say her husband never does that.
As I've said before, Want to advertise? Offer two prices. One slightly cheaper and ad-subsidized, one a couple of bucks higher and ad-free. If the ads are subsidizing a reduced rate/discount then I don't mind so much. I suspect they're there for everyone, though.
The most glaring problem is the site design after you click to download anything. Lots of sites are taking this complicated approach these days, but it's a problem on Blacked. Click the download link and a popup (java?) covers the entire screen to offer you your choices. Click on whichever choice you want and it will occasionally start the download. I'm not sure why it has so much trouble, but it's almost like the clicks register but the system doesn't care. Left or right clicks won't don't do anything at nearly equal rates. Eventually the link will register and give you the option to save, but often an error message will appear. It's almost like a timeout, but it happens within ten seconds or so. Very weird site choices.
TL;DR - Put download link choices on the page under the video, and don't require three or more clicks to get to the content. Done and done.
Would I join again? Yes. The good outweighs the bad by a large margin, and the bad is mostly little annoyances.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Pics zips
- Various video formats available
- 1080 and 720 HD videos
- An enormous site with lots of content
- Download managers work, sort of
- No download limit that I found, but I'm on a slowish connection
- Discounted promo rates
- Tremendous amount of MILFs, which is definitely an added bonus for my tastes.
- Lots of variety in actresses. Blondes, blacks, Hispanics, Euro, etc. If you like it they've probably got it.
- Lots of stockings, lingerie, and glam hair when I didn't expect it. Again, added bonus for my tastes.
Cons:
- Not all clips have photos, and not all photos are .zipped
- Actresses are sometimes listed twice (Chastity Lynn is in both "C" and "L" sections). Might not be padding, but still.
- Very, VERY much a pornstar site. Yes there is some glam and stockings, but it's overwhelmed by thigh tattoos, breast, butt, and lip implants, etc. You won't go through more than a couple of scenes before you run into ridiculous fake tits (why, ladies?)
- Advertisements inside paid area
- Questionable video formats/quality
- Download managers seem to be hit or miss
Bottom Line:
Brazzers was on my radar for a while and I'm glad I finally tried them. It's one of the big names of the industry beside NA, BangBus, etc., and I'd already tried the others, so...
This might not make much sense until you see it, but I really approve of their non-gonzo approach to filming women giving oral sex. If face-fucking can possibly be considered tastefully done, then Brazzers has figured out how to do it. There is often quite a bit of sound involved, but little to no drool and none of that degrading gonzo-style "woman laying on her back and saliva coating her hair and making her eyeliner run before the man puts a foot on her head while entering her from behind" that so many sites have embraced.
There's a lot of campiness involved in some very unbelievable scenes. Alana Evans having unnoticed sex with a friend while he and two other men (one her "husband" IIRC) sit on a couch watching a ball game comes to mind, but they're fairly easy to excuse, too. I'm not knocking points off for that sort of stuff, just noting it so it's not too surprising when you see it for the first time. It's a comical setup to a pretty good follow up.
I'm a bit particular about video encoding rates/efficiency, and I really didn't get their approach. They list the bitrates on the video choice when you choose your download, and there is a huge jump between 2000 Kbps and 8000 Kbps 720p clips.
Put another way, there are either enormous (1 or 2+gb) 720p and 1080p options, or you can choose a near-unwatchable by modern standards blocky and poor-quality option that is a drastically smaller download.
Big gripe- I'm fairly sure there were multiple time-based downloadable clips when I joined (if you just wanted to grab the five minutes at the end for example), and now they're gone. That's very disappointing.
Download managers work, but the links time out or you will be logged out of the site and you'll only get a couple of the clips you queued up.
Offer something between the crappy SD clips and the enormous 720p and up ones. Give an in-between HQ option to bridge the gap. Look at Milehighmedia for examples.
Bottom line:
Some irritations, but a huge site with a lot of content, and it's one of the very few sites I carried on with an annual membership.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Quite a few photo sets available for some of the corresponding videos (see first paragraph, though).
- Photos available as zip file (again, see first paragraph).
- Possibly some exclusive content.
- Lots of behind the scenes stuff if that's your thing. Maybe even exclusive BTS stuff if that's your thing.
Cons:
- The photo sets will have fewer than ten pictures.
- Broken links and other site foul-ups
- Lots of behind the scenes stuff that can seem like filler if that's not your thing.
Bottom Line:
There are photos and zips available for the scenes, which is good. Unfortunately, the photo sets and zips that I bothered to click on had fewer than a dozen photos. I'd say closer to eight in the ones I looked at.
There are 150 or so videos. Quite a few appear to be behind the scenes and interview type clips, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were exclusive. Because why wouldn't they be? Who else would want them?
I'd say fewer than 25 of the 150 videos are offered in HD. The rest are 360p.
FWIW, I didn't click on every single video. I didn't see the point after seeing that they appeared to be low res leftovers. I DID take a sample to make sure I was not being overly critical. One from 2008 is 360p. It looks like garbage and is mostly unwatchable. There is another video option, though. 160p. And if you think the 360p looks bad, just wait until you get a chance to see something that's half as good. Clicking on the last page to check the updates, you discover that the last "page" is a direct link to a video. Keep in mind that this is supposed to be a page full of other updates. Something with a number on the bottom to move to the other pages. Nope. It goes to a scene clip. But hey, who cares? You paid, so the site probably served it's purpose.
Are there positives? Yeah, sort of. If you are a big fan of her and want every single thing she's ever done, then you'll probably find an unwatchable clip or two here to never watch after you download them.
Would I recommend? Absolutely not. Just another Open Life cash grab.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Photos that might be exclusive
- Zip files seem to be available for the sets I browsed
- Many boy-girl sets
Cons:
- Probably only 30 or so videos
- Low resolution video clips
- Ads inside the paid area
- Small site overall
Bottom Line:
TL;DR version- Another website in the openlife network to steer clear of. The regular problems. No updates, poor video quality, low content overall, etc. Avoid.
Expanded review:
The videos are almost all mostly unwatchable. This seems to be a common theme to the videos on the openlife network, so it's nothing to be surprised by.
You'll also discover videos that are incomplete. One eight minute clip with the lovely Haley Cummings comes to mind. It's one of the few offered in better than 360p (720 and 1080), but it's incomplete. Ms. Calogera and Haley Cummings perform oral sex on a stunt cock for a few minutes, then there is a little bit of sex, and then the video fades out and ends. No finale, nothing. Just fade out and that's that.
There is no rhyme or reason to video quality, either. A quick look shows that a video from 2012 is only offered in 360p or worse, while one from 2010 has 720p and 1080p options.
Which brings up another con (or maybe a pro if you're desperately searching for the one or two high definition clips on the site): The site is very small. There are only 30 or so video clips. On the bright side, you won't have to spend much time scanning through and opening every video link to see which ones are HD.
Something that might be the biggest pro: There are quite a few photo sets. I'd estimate 25 or so. Some of them are in very high resolution and with pages and pages of photos available.
Bottom line: Avoid. Even if you're a huge fan, avoid unless you can get the entire network for a buck or two, and even then make sure you wouldn't rather just rent a movie or videogame from Redbox instead.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- A few HD video clips.
- Photos are available for some of the videos, and some photo sets are even available as zip files.
- I suspect some, or even all, of the material is exclusive.
- I think there's one exclusive HD boy-girl scene here if you're a hardcore collector with money to spend.
Cons:
- Most videos appear to be 480p or worse.
- Only a few boy-girl scenes.
- Small site.
- Photos for some sets appear to be screengrabs of the video.
- Ads inside the pay area.
- Lots of low-res solo stuff.
- Updates? Ha. Don't be silly. I saw no evidence of such things.
- Other sites offer more of her content, plus hundreds of thousands of other clips if you happen to enjoy other attractive women, too.
Bottom Line:
Mmm, the lovely Charmane Star. What a great opportunity to get some exclusive videos and photos featuring such a striking young woman.
Such a shame you should probably look somewhere other than charmanestar.com if you're interested in her material, though. Honestly. Videosz.com shows over 100 clips featuring her, and I'd be shocked if they don't look much better than the low-res ones offered here. Don't misunderstand me, though. I'm sure there are some exclusive videos and photos at this site, and I honestly wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that it's all exclusive content. I'm just not certain they're worth spending the money on unless you're a CRAZY big fan of this lovely young woman.
The site has 30 or so videos and a similar number of photo sets available. The weird part is that at least one of the photo sets looks to be a repeat. I didn't care enough to investigate and compare any further, but the thumbnail and titles are the same, so one can guess it's the same set being repeated. Is it intentional to pad the numbers or accidental and just an oversight? Or is it just incompetence and poor web design on a site and network that arguably shouldn't even exist in the first place? Hard to say. Can it be both?
The site appears to offer three or four boy / girl scenes, and only one of those was offered in better than 480p. The rest of the clips are solo, lesbian, and behind the scenes types. All of that is fine, too. Just know what you're subscribing to.
One of the more amusing (and bizarre) elements of the site was that the photo section is titled "ASIAN PORN PICS" while other uh, less asian actresses on other Open Life Network sites just have "PHOTOS" at the top of their photo pages.
It looks like there are fewer than ten HD videos.
On the pro side of things, and so this doesn't seem completely contrarian (although it should certainly be read and understood as 95% contrarian), there were zip files available for the photo sets I clicked on, the photos looked nice and were professionally done, and I didn't encounter any download limits or very slow speeds. Full disclosure, though: I doubt they would enforce strict download limits on the 1GB or so that I downloaded. These positives are reflected in my score and raised the site five points to a solid 56.
If you like paying for five to ten mediocre high definition videos an extremely limited number of low-res videos and a few photo sets, this place is just right. Otherwise I'd suggest avoiding the site and network.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Lets you choose models by breast size, which is a nice touch and pretty unusual in my experience.
- You can create your own video clip from the larger scene (looks like a 5 minute size/time limitation)
- .zipped photo sets available for many / most scenes.
- Good PU discount
- No DRM or download limits.
Cons:
- Ads, ads, and more ads.
- More than a few technical issues.
- There isn't enough room here. See below.
Bottom Line:
I even ran out of room here, too. I'll touch on some of the main points, though.
- 540p and 720p clips are identical sizes when downloading. (Catherine E, Carol A., Carina E., and many others). Sorry guys, but that's not possible. And it kept happening. I'd say 70%+ of the clips that didn't have 1080p as a download option were the same size when I checked. It would be okay if the rest of the site were outstanding, but as it is it only serves to make it appear even worse.
- Photo sets for many scenes are laughably small (600KB). I understand that many shoots are old, but one would think the images were archived at the best quality, and it doesn't seem likely that it would yield a web-page-promo sized set. Which brings us to:
- Not a whole lot of content considering the brand has been around for a very long time.
- Wrong actresses pictured in name/scenes. "Jeanine" (Rihanna Samuel) uses a photo of someone else entirely for the main thumbnail, which is a very bad thing on a site where the actresses use aliases.
- Scenes' pages have different formats. Some might list download options as "1080p, 540p, and 720p" while others list "High, Med, Low". It looks like it's different because the former is .mp4 while the latter is .wmv. Which brings us to:
- Multiple formats, but not in a good way. Streaming for one clip uses jwplayer (java?) but you're prompted to get silverlight for the same model's other clip on the next page.
- Lots of ads in the scene listings. Yes, they're listed as "bonus" videos, but you can't download them unless you pay somewhere else, which means they're advertisements for other sites sprinkled directly within the model's scenes.
- No useful naming structure or any meaningful identification of files. Oh no, one of the downloads failed. Which one? Who the hell knows, and you'll never, ever know unless you cross-reference each video in the folder full of "540p_fullcomplete" files you've been downloading against the hundreds of available videos on the site. Good luck. What was I looking for again? Oh yeah, her. Hey, there it is. That one. 540p_fullcomplete. Thank goodness I found it. Oh no, it's not that one. Maybe it's 540p_fullcomplete. Nope, not that one, either. 540p_fullcomplete, maybe. Nope. Not that one. 540p_fullcomplete? Crap, no.
It's especially irritating since each and every video is clearly given a name on the page you download from. "Christina Sits by the Pool" or "Jenny Is Home Alone" or something similar (each of those is made up, btw) is listed above the download options for every video. What do you get when you click them? 540p_fullcomplete and 540p_fullcomplete.
Other than grabbing a specific actress' clips and images, I can't see much of an advantage of this site over just joining Videosz or Videobox. They might not have the *exact* same content, but they appear to have lots of similar content if you just want to sample (24 pages of "Video Art Holland" clips, ~700 or so scenes at VB), and I bet the names have SOME defining characteristic, even if it's just the title of the movie. Not to mention thousands of other scenes from dozens of other studios, too.
- Actresses are often not credited and you only know the name because a comment was left by a user who helpfully tells everyone who she is.
- "Girl of the Week" repeats. Weeks 193 and 353, and 174 and 108 (and somehow amazingly the same as "Request 348"- why wouldn't the fan who made the request just go to the model's page and download the scene that already exists?) are an example, but there are many others.
- Lots of technical annoyances. For example: If you click on an image to view it it will load with the website darkened in the background. If you then press the right arrow to move on to the next image, the background (the website) will shift to the left. If you continue pressing the right arrow to view other photos in the series the website will shift entirely to the left side of your monitor, almost disappearing, and you'll need to move it back to the viewable part of your screen to continue.
- On the plus side, there are a few standout videos you should definitely get if you decide to join. 1080p_fullcomplete was almost perfect, with great models, good acting, and really nice action. 1080p_fullcomplete was another one that is a must-get, too. And if you like lesbian scenes, do not miss 1080p_fullcomplete. The energy between those two is amazing.
Bottom line:
This site, like Private, has such potential, talent, and name recognition that it could easily be competing at the level of the other big-name top tier sites, but the combination of "meh" quality, slipshod site design, and indifference to user experience / user friendliness is really disappointing.
Would I recommend? Sure, why not? It's cheap, it's not absolutely horrible, and you could complete a favorite actress' scene collection if that's what you're after.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Allows download manager (DTA)
- Decent download speeds when accessible.
- Some photo sets are zipped.
Cons:
Some truly unattractive women. 50% or more if I had to guess. Not beer-goggles women. I mean actual homely and/or fat and homely women. It's easy to pick out the (attractive) pros' videos because they're the ones you don't squint and scroll past.
***HORRIBLE VIDEO QUALITY***. The highest setting looks to be 640x426 @ 2700kbps WMV, and most vids are around 100MB. Think 1998. Remember the old free Bang Bus clips you'd find in xxx galleries? Yep, that bad.
Add to that poor lighting, bad angles, etc.
Seriously, the video quality is so bad that sometimes I only knew the guy had orgasmed because I saw a change in the woman's stroking tempo.
Joined on Saturday morning. Their server was overwhelmed and inaccessible by 9am and I couldn't view any pages until that evening. Fortunately:
Very little content available. Divide that by half (unless you like homely women in low-res videos) and you've got an entire network that you can browse and download in less than 1/2 a da
Bottom Line:
Avoid.
Overpriced and outdated. Fortunately I clicked through to the signup page and then attempted to leave. I was offered 10 days for $10 and decided to try it.
I still feel a bit ripped off because one day is all you need. Clubtug has 13 pages with 12 vids each. Cumblastcity, seemomsuck, and over40handjobs have less than a dozen pages total with 12 vids on each page. I'd give you an exact number, but the server is inaccessible again.
UPDATE 1/22/12- Total pages of the four sites mentioned above is 30, with 12 (fewer if it's the last page) vids on each, and many repeats between sites.
My DTA queue has just over 200 videos lined up for download and I've seen every page. If I saturated my DSL line I could've had the entire network (well, all I wanted) downloaded in a few hours.
BTW, many of those other sites have repeats. Maybe only 35% of the videos are worth getting after you factor in the ugly girls and the redundancies.
I can only go on my opinion, and no one can account for personal taste. I like clavicles, tan-lines, and almost-invisible hair in backlit photos of thighs. Other people won't find that appealing. But dang there are some unattractive women on this site. More power to you if that's your thing, but I'm guessing you could find an ugly woman site with higher quality videos and photos.
That said, the photos are occasionally decent, although they're web-viewing size only. It doesn't redeem the site, but it should be mentioned. Unfortunately not every video has photos, and those that do aren't always zipped and available for downloading unless you're willing to click and save each individual photo.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Multiple download options
- No download limits
- Attractive female models
- Above-average production values
Cons:
- Small site
- Doesn't seem different enough to warrant a separate site
- No epoch or CCBill option that I could find
Bottom Line:
This is a fairly short review because it's a small site that probably should just be a part of a _____x.com network. I have no problem paying for smaller sites, btw. This one just seems way too close in style and substance to other _____x.com sites to merit a standalone / additional cost site.
If you are looking for well-shot, attractive people having fairly vanilla sex but with anal instead of vaginal intercourse, these are probably decent sites to consider.
Bottom line: Look at the hardx review to get a feel for the good and bad for darkx, too. This seemed pretty much identical except for having black male leads and fewer clips.
Was a member approx. 5 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Gorgeous models
- Above average productions
- Download managers work.
- No download limit (note that another recent commenter has had issues that he thinks might be token related).
- A ridiculous amount of available content.
- HD except for older content.
- Multiple video encoding options.
- .zip files for photos.
Cons:
- Video quality of older content isn't that great, but the site has been around a long time so that's forgivable.
- Can be repetitious.
- Not much variety in skin color.
Bottom Line:
To me DDF is a Euro equivalent to the big sites like Naughty America, Brazzers, etc. There is little to no gonzo-style gagging or the like, but there is a substantial amount of foot fetish, watersports, and bondage in addition to the standard formulated and fairly vanilla sex. The modern stuff somehow leans more to the tasteful side of things even in the raunchier corners of the network.
There are different sites in the network dedicated to the above as well as lesbian, busty, blowjobs, etc., but when you go to the main page all the scenes and updates are organized together.
Speaking of, the sorting options are nice. You can choose a specific year if you want to start at the beginning of hundreds of videos, or you can pick the months in that year.
The majority of models are gorgeous, and the hair and makeup artists are obviously very skilled. Even the less attractive models look good, and it's shocking to see some "casting" style photographs of the models before seeing them in photos and scenes later. Some are almost unrecognizable (in a good way).
I didn't encounter any download limits, and it was no problem at all to pick the model, load up a bunch of links in my download queue, and come back later with it still chugging along and a few dozen gigabytes downloaded.
HD video (720 and 1080), but I didn't see any 4K options when I was a member through the end of January 2016.
Bottom line- Great site for collectors in general and especially those who enjoy European models.
Would I join again? Definitely. It's one of the only sites I've ever bought an annual membership for, so yes, absolutely.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Quite a bit of BG hardcore
- Apparently more than a few HD offerings
- Guest appearances by other big names
- Photos available as zip files
Cons:
- Like most sites these days, the website is a little busy at times (script and such)
- Ads inside paywall
- No longer updating (stopped in 2015)
- Strangely, not many photos
Bottom Line:
What a weird and unexpected site. This is possibly the first site from Open Life Network that might possibly, maybe, potentially be worth joining at a greatly reduced price if you're a hardcore collector of Devon Lee material.
There are 75 or so videos. If I had to guess, I'd say the most recent 25-30 are offered in high definition.
I was also surprised to find quite a bit of smoking fetish material in the site. It's not my thing and I'm not sure if the content justifies joining, but it's there and nice to see they sort of made an effort to add some interesting content.
The other sort of nice discovery was content with her not wearing a lot of makeup. I'm sure there was enough to keep the lighting correct or what have you, but there are scenes of how she honestly, truly looks, and it was quite nice.
The last update appears to be from 2015, so that's fairly typical with these Open Life Network sites. They're all pretty much dead, and you shouldn't expect any updates.
Most of the other Open Life caveats apply, too. The older videos are fairly mediocre in quality and, while there aren't download limits, there are pretty limited downloads. You can probably download the entire site in a weekend or even just a few hours if you've got a fast connection. Yes, you'll have access to other sites on the network, but they're not that great, either. You can see my reviews for Ashley Fires, Bree Olson, and others on the network to get a sense of what to expect. Most of the others were written as a warning, though, and this one might be the first one that I am writing as (just barely) a recommendation.
Would I recommend? I don't know. My first instinct is no, but this might have some stuff that really, REALLY dedicated Devon Lee fans would like, and it might even be exlusive and hard to come by. If you're a big fan flip through the pages and see if it's stuff you don't have and can't live without. If so, see if you can get on a mailing list for a greatly reduced rate because the site, even with additional network sites, really isn't worth $15/month. But it might be if you just can't stand not having every single thing Ms. Lee has ever done.
It's a very firm "probably not but maybe" I suppose. 60% probably not and 40% maybe.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Large site with lots of content
- Average to attractive women being seen to by black men with large penises
- .zip files of photos for every set I looked at.
- Epoch is payment processor.
- Simple site with simple navigation. Other sites could learn from this layout.
- Reasonable video sizes with good quality
- Deeply discounted rate was offered after canceling.
Cons:
- 10GB/day or so download limit.
- A bit too heavy on the "they're all thugs playing dice in the alley" black guy stereotypes, but I guess that's part of the fantasy. FWIW, it would be nice to see some (legal) businessman scenes incorporated, too.
- Lots of fake tits and thigh tattoos, although I recognize that's the direction the industry has moved towards.
- Scene tags don't help much. "Hairy" is anything from a full belly-to-bottom bush, or just a little landing strip. And sometimes it produced scenes where the actress was fully shaved and bald as an egg. Or maybe it's the guy in the video. Hard to know for sure.
Bottom Line:
Good site with good content.
Attractive women servicing BBCs, and different scenarios / fantasies spread over a number of sites on the network. MILFs, cuckolds, black on white, white on black, individual actress sites (Ruth Blackwell, Spring Thomas, others), etc. It's one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, players in the niche, and it has years of content available using lots of big name actresses as well as unknowns.
Quite a few of the "big" downloads failed before they finished, and links/pages don't stay alive more than 30 minutes to an hour, so download managers don't work too far beyond the most basic "download this single file and nothing else after it" functionality.
I ran into a weekly download limit (somewhere around 10GB/day if I had to guess) that is not mentioned in the terms or on PU/TBP. You still have access after you go over, but you can only stream until their clock resets. I don't remember the reset time limit (sorry), but I'm guessing it's at the end of the week since the page telling me I couldn't download any more since I'd hit the limit specifically mentioned "week".
Bottom line: I liked it, but note that it's aimed towards non-collectors with fast connections who are interested in streaming the majority of the content and only want to keep a few items here and there.
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