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Jules Jordan
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79.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- HD available in new titles
- SD looks good
- Access to a lot of older titles
- Supports download managers
- Access to a good mix of older and newer JJ stuff
- Newer DVDs appear to be uploaded shortly after release
- Bills through Epoch
- Updates regularly |
Cons: |
- Site not organized by DVD title
- Small site
- Download speeds can vary
- Need a membership to a second Jules Jordan site to get all the scenes from some DVDs
- Search function could use some improvement
- Updates by adding only one scene at a time |
Bottom Line: |
After two memberships to sites that I’d not normally have joined due to their focus on older (25+) and busty women, I figured I’d better join a site that I knew I’d like: a DVD-based, raw hardcore site with a healthy dose of anal scenes.
Jules Jordan is probably one of those producers who’s work you either like or don’t. He started with Evil Angel many years ago and has continued to produce some excellent porn if you like your porn with a rougher edge and heavy dose of anal sex. He’s no Max Hardcore though, and his work was certainly a good fit for Evil Angel. If you like EA stuff you’re apt to like JJ stuff.
The site is organized in a straightforward way in that you can sort by all scenes, older scenes, HD scenes and by models. Clicking on either of those will bring up a list with large thumbnails that you can further open to get what you’re looking for.
The individual scenes open to a new page with a large window for streaming (which, thankfully, doesn’t start automatically). There are links for streaming choices and for download choices. In the newer scenes streaming is available in HD, SD and mobile, and the same is usually available in HD (1080p and 720p), SD and mobile for downloads. The only file type is mp4. The videos looked good (I downloaded 720p when it was available). Obviously older files shot in SD don’t look as good but they’re still watchable.
The site supports download managers and links don’t time out quickly. Download speeds were usually good at 6+MB/s using IDM though there were times (infrequently) when it could be half that.
The good news is that you have access to 124 DVDs. I’m not sure how many DVDs Jordan has produced but IAFD doesn’t seem to list too many more than that. This means that you have access to a lot of his older titles and still have access to new releases. The newer releases seem to get uploaded shortly after they hit the DVD market. The bad news here is that with only 124 DVD titles this is still a pretty small site. And it’s destined to stay that way for a while since the site only updates with one scene being added every two days. On some days two scenes get added, but that isn’t frequent. The other downside to this is that if you’re looking for a specific scene in a movie you might have to wait a while to get it.
I’ll admit this may be subjective, but on a DVD-based studio site it seems logical to me that the scenes be arranged by the DVD they appeared on. For example, if you want to check out Ass Worship 3 you should be able to sort by DVD title, select that title and see the scenes in that movie. But for some reason the site isn’t set up this way, even though the DVD title will appear as a tag in a scene. Not to get too confusing here, but let’s say you open a scene with a star you like. The thumbnail and link will give no indication of which DVD the scene is from, but when you open the link there will be a tag with the DVD title that you can then click on to see all the available scenes from that title.
An obvious work-around would be to just enter the DVD into the search function, right? Sort of, but if you search “Ass Worship 3” be prepared to scroll down past the first four or five links because those first links won’t be scenes from the DVD you’re looking for. Aim for the fifth or sixth scene and open it and you might just have a scene from Ass Worship 3 with a link to the DVD that you can then follow through to see the other scenes from that title. My description is confusing partly because the process is confusing.
To make this even worse, the tour pages have a “Movies” link which will take you to a page with thumbnail covers of all the DVDs on the site. When you enter the member’s page though, that link is gone.
What really hurts the value of a membership is the way that the studio has decided to release the videos. Besides this site the studio also has The Ass Factory. We can debate whether a single studio the size of JJ really needs two sites (I’d debate that they don’t) but the problem is that for most JJ titles you might get three scenes here and two at The Ass Factory, which means that to get more complete access to the JJ library you need to buy two $30 memberships. But I suppose if there are enough people like me who will pay for both there is no incentive to merge the two sites into one.
So is the site worth a membership? It depends on who you are. If you really like Jordan’s stuff it probably is. If it’s merely a passing interest for you there are probably better places to put your porn dollars. The porn is excellent, but the site needs a rethink on a couple of key problems and the fact that the site is small and the DVDs are spread over two sites makes the value lower than it should be.
(As an aside, if you want a membership to only one JJ site I’d recommend this one over The Ass Factory. AF is a much smaller site for the same fee. I’ll try to get a review to that up soon.) |
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11-12-12 03:26pm
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Hotkinkyjo
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79.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Nothing else quite like it
- Pushes the boundaries on extreme insertions
- Very rare male on female anal fisting
- Exclusive material
- Photos and Videos
- Resolutions on even mid-grade videos look great
- Updates regularly |
Cons: |
- Streaming only
- true HD stutters a lot even with a high-speed connection
- Insertions only – no actual sex
- Expensive for what’s offered |
Bottom Line: |
First, please let me introduce you to an 800lb. gorilla in the room because readers will definitely notice it: yes, this is an EXTREME site. It isn’t for everyone. Heck, I’m pretty sure that a lot of it isn’t even for me, and I’m a fan of extreme anal stuff. So, readers, please remember that even if you don’t like this niche, I’m wearing my reviewer’s hat as much as my pervert’s hat, so please keep the comments civil.
The other 800lb. gorilla in the room is the fact that the site offers no downloads at all. That goes for photos and videos. The site explains and justifies that by noting the risk of piracy if we, people who actively support pay sites, are allowed to keep what we see. I have no doubt that piracy is probably the biggest problem in the online porn industry today and I’m sure it hurts small sites like this much more than big sites, but I am not convinced that penalizing supportive paying customers is the solution. I really hope that the site re-thinks this policy.
Hot Kinky Jo is an attractive Russian model who speaks good English and appears to be in her mid-20s. She’s petite and has looks more common in mainstream porn rather than the often rough, hard look of a model who pushes the limits in extreme fetish porn. According to an interview she gave to Jay Sin in Anal Acrobats she got her start doing webcam work and discovered she has a particular ‘talent’ for being able to insert large objects into her ass. I’m not sure if there is such a title, but if there is then Jo deserves to be labeled the Queen of Extreme Anal Insertions. In fact, I suspect that if the title comes with a crown then she could easily insert that into her bum.
The videos all feature some sort of extreme anal play. There are solo scenes where Jo anally fists herself, scenes where she uses huge dildos in her ass, including one where she takes more of a horse-dick dildo than would seem possible. There are scenes where she is with one or more women where there is more extreme insertion and usually female on female anal fisting. There are even a few scenes with male on female anal fisting. I’m not aware of any other site that offers this. In several scenes Jo actually takes more than one fist in her: three go in during one scene. I warned you that this was extreme stuff. One thing you will not see is actual anal sex, but that isn’t the theme here anyway.
One niche that the site promotes is prolapse or “rosebud” porn. I am most definitely NOT a fan of this and I know this sounds weird, but I have no stomach for prolapse stuff in the middle of a fisting video.
The site is very small, which is likely because it’s so new. There are only 17 videos and 15 photo shoots available as of this writing. To make matters worse, the videos are short, all coming in at just under eight minutes long. But I’m guessing that if you’re having your ass fisted, eight minutes could seem like an eternity…
The photo sets all have 100+ photos. Many of the photos shoots appear to be shot at the same time as the videos.
The site, which only began last month, currently updates every two or three days. Video updates seem more frequent than photo updates.
I can’t give full specs on the videos or photos because I don’t know how to do that for streams. The videos are offered in three resolutions, low (1.5MB/s), medium (5)MB/s) and HD (10MB/s). I have a 60MB/s fibre op connection and I found the HD stuff unwatchable due to stuttering and long and frequent buffering delays. But when the HD stuff played, it did look good. The medium looks excellent too and didn’t suffer the same problems. The photos also offer three resolutions. Both videos and pictures open into a viewer on the page. I really can’t give much more technical detail because I don’t normally use streaming.
Not that this is relevant, but this site is the first I’ve noticed that uses the new “xxx” top-level domain. Until I noticed that I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t find the site by simply googling “hotkinkyjo.”
I’ll usually base a recommendation on value. And for me, cost is only one factor in deciding on value. Given the uniqueness of this site I’d normally be willing to say it provides decent value even though it costs $30 per month and only has a small amount of material. But – and this is only my opinion – the lack of downloads means I just can’t recommend this. Until they offer downloads I won’t be back and I’d only recommend the site to someone who really likes this niche and understands that it is streaming only. |
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07-23-12 05:49pm
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Massive Access
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79.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large collection of sites
- Extremely diverse for a mainstream network
- TBP / PU discount (see note below and my comment from November 18, 2011)
- Multiple formats / resolutions available
- Streaming available
- Supports download managers
- Decent download speed
- Seems to be updating
- Good value |
Cons: |
- Doesn’t bill through one of the better known billers (Safebilling)
- Many older videos aren’t offered in multiple formats
- Optimistic in reporting number of scenes and some scene resolutions
- Photos are not available as zips
- No anal-themed site |
Bottom Line: |
I’m not normally a fan of mega-sites, but the discount on this one made it interesting and I wanted access to a few of the niche sites so it made sense to join. My overall impression is that it is a good site, but it over-promises and under-delivers. Not by much, and not enough for me to tell you to avoid it, but it does have some weaknesses.
It is a large network with a reported 107 sites on the covering the broadest range of fetishes I’ve ever encountered. The majority of the sites are b/g hardcore though there are scenes featuring BBWs, Black BBW, fucking machines, animated porn, food sex, midgets, MILFs, women over 60 and hairy women. There are also 13 sites featuring transsexuals. Interestingly, there are five sites of gay scenes too, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen on a primarily straight network, but given the broad range of interests they cover these don’t really seem out of place. If there could be a complaint about the diversity of sites it might be that it’s trying to be too diverse. I joined to get access to some relatively mainstream porn with attractive young lasses doing nasty things. Each midget scene (no offence meant to those of less stature) means one less scene with a more mainstream interest. The one ‘niche’ missing is anal sex. There are anal scenes scattered around, but no anal site.
You can select a tab that tells you how many scenes are in each site but unless I’m missing something their counts seem wildly optimistic. Matrix Models, for example, boasts of 1726 scenes but I only see a little over 300. That’s not bad, but to be off by a factor of six seems a bit odd. Other sites show the same optimism when giving stats on the number of scenes. It isn’t that big a deal though because there is still a lot of material here.
Videos can be streamed in three qualities and in many cases in HD. I didn’t use the streaming so I can’t comment on it. Most videos can be downloaded in either wmv or MPEG4 format. MPEG4s are offered in several resolutions, ranging from iPod quality to HD (320x210, 540x500, 640x480 and 1280x720). I prefer wmv format and most videos are offered in that format at a decent, though not stellar, resolution. One issue I have is that like the number of scenes in each site, the resolutions reported for some wmv files are a bit optimistic. I checked this with several files to make sure I just didn’t stumble on a lone file in a vast collection and found it repeatedly: the site says you’re downloading a 720x540 video but what you’re getting is 640x360 at 2100kb/s. That isn’t a huge difference, but it is enough to be noticeable and it is misrepresenting the file. I don’t download mp4 or MPEG4s usually and I didn’t much of those here either but with the MPEGs that I did download they seemed to more accurately labeled for file size.
One beef I had was that a lot of the older videos with stars I like to collect were not available in wmv format. The vast majority of material is offered in wmv – it’s mostly the stuff that was made a decade or more ago.
Pictures are also available, but they aren’t available as zips so I didn’t download any. They appeared to be mostly screencaps.
A lot of the content here is not exclusive. I found many scenes that I have from various well-known porn DVDs. If you have a huge collection of porn, particularly DVD porn, you’ll likely find some overlap. But… there is still a lot of material here but I don’t think much of it is actually exclusive. If I’m wrong I hope someone corrects this in a comment.
I’m not saying that this is good or bad, but a lot of the scenes had a watermark from Porn.com. I’m not familiar with that site but Googling it makes me think it’s a tube site. I don’t know if that is true or not, but Massive Access is definitely a membership driven site. I have no idea what, if any, connection exists between the sites.
The site appears to updating with new scenes added daily. I see in his earlier review here that Robbi81 stated that he thought the dates of scenes were being manipulated to give the impression that the site was updating when it isn’t. He didn’t explain that comment, but I have no reason to believe that the site is dormant. Even if I’m wrong, the site is worth a membership given the price and size.
Speaking of price, neither TBP or PU mention a discounted price on the Massive Access page. I’m not sure if there is a discount if you join through the main network page but I joined through one of the specific sites, My Stepdaughter Ate My Ass (yes, I’m a pervert, but so are you!) and was offered a discount that gave me access to what appears to be everything. Even if it isn’t everything, it’s still a great value.
For the few flaws the network has I’d still recommend it because at the TBP/PU discount it’s a good value. The videos aren’t exclusive and they resolutions aren’t great, but there is a lot of interesting porn here. |
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11-21-11 04:34pm
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Cherry Petite
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79.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Very beautiful and petite model
- Mix of softcore and hardcore
- Full trial with low price
- Decent quality videos and pictures
- Good download speeds |
Cons: |
- Smallish site (89 video scenes, 49 photo sets)
- No longer updating
- Beware of pre-checked cross-sells
- No zips for the photos
- No HD option
- Some of the scenes can be a bit repetitive |
Bottom Line: |
I’m not usually a big fan of solo girl sites, but I’ve always liked other models that I’ve seen from Quebec so I thought I’d give this a try. Cherry Petite is a beautiful young brunette model. She’s petite too, as the name would suggest. She’s done some mainstream stuff under the name Cherry Potter too. She has one scene on Videobox under the name Sherry Potter.
The most recent of her videos seem to be a lot more tame than the ones she posted back when she first started her website. The later videos are mostly just a bit of tease and some masturbation as she lies on a bed. The camera is on a tripod so there is not much variety in the shots. Personally, I find these videos a bit boring and repetitive. As you work your way back into the older videos they certainly get more daring. I was pleasantly surprised to see some girl/girls play and some hardcore boy/girl scenes, some with just oral, some with vaginal sex. There is no anal. There are also some videos that can be classified as public nudity or exhibitionism. These and the hardcore scenes make this a much better site than if all she had were softcore videos. There are 89 videos on the site of varying length. The last video update was in October, 2008. The videos are 720x480 resolution. There is a lower resolution available but I didn’t try that. The download speeds were better than I have seen at other similar sites. If I was downloading only one file I would see speeds between 1.2 and 1.5 MB/sec.
There are pictures too. I’m not big into pictures but I would probably have downloaded all of them since I really like Cherry’s look. But there is a major flaw on the site: there is no option to download a zip. There are 49 photo sets of varying sizes. The last photo set update was in June 2007.
Obviously the site isn’t updating any more. IAFD lists Cherry as having left the business in 2007.
So is Cherry Petite worth the membership? If you like her look, then it is. 89 videos and 49 photo sets isn’t a small site for a solo model. There is enough variety in the videos and photos to keep it interesting. What makes it a great value though is that it offers a full trial for two days at $2.95. The site is small enough that you could easily download the stuff you want in two days. I cancelled my trial membership early to ensure that I’d have no problems doing so and the membership stayed active until the end of the two days. One problem to note is that there is a pre-checked cross-sell on the sign-up page. I missed it. Don’t make the same mistake because it took me over an hour to cancel that to avoid a full membership being triggered. |
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12-19-10 07:08am
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VideoBox
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79.0
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- It’s Videobox, dammit!
- HUGE collection of DVDs
- Probably the largest DVD site on the internet
- Excellent value
- Wide variety of material available
- Premium (extra cost) channels are worth the price |
Cons: |
- Selects for quantity, not quality
- Heavy reliance on European videos
- A lot of Grade-B, C and D material
- A lot of B/B/G scenes
- Heavy reliance on compilations where the original is also available
- Poor search function |
Bottom Line: |
Yes, I realize that this is probably the most reviewed site here at PU, and yes, I also realize that this is the third time I’ve reviewed this site, but I wanted to update my opinion of the site and I figured that a comment wouldn’t suffice. I also added the premium channels this time too.
I’m a big fan of Videobox. I’ve had friends who’ve asked for recommendations on porn sites and I’ve sent them to VB. VB is an excellent way to build a large, good quality porn collection. It has enough variety to satisfy all but the most unusual tastes, though the search function (or lack thereof) makes finding what you want more difficult. A site this large needs a better means of searching.
VB is big enough and well known enough that one bad review won’t hurt it. I’m still a fan, but less of a fan than I have been. The thing I think that is dragging VB down is, ironically, what is one of their big selling points: five updates a day. The problem with having five updates a day is that this emphasizes quantity over quality. When they’re putting five new DVDs up per day, every day, regardless of your tastes there will be an awful lot of crap being uploaded.
To fill their daily quota VB relies heavily on European porn. I prefer American porn, but that’s not my motivating point here. There is good European porn and there is bad European porn. (Same with the U.S.) The problem is that VB seems to rely on more bad European stuff than good stuff. Take Private – they are (or at least used to be) a high-quality studio. I only learned that they also crank out complete crap thanks to VB. This is grade-B and C Private stuff.
Another pet peeve of mine that is also caused by the daily update schedule is the use of a lot of compilation DVDs. The problem is that with many of the compilation DVDs VB has already posted the original. Luckily someone usually points out the duplication. But VB gets to count another update without really updating anything.
On the plus side, VB has recently been adding older Seymore Butts titles. These are great to see again.
They’ve also started adding some Diabolic titles too. There aren’t many up yet, but these certainly move the quality balance in the right direction.
For the first time, I also added the ‘premium’ channels. These really add to the value of the membership now that they are bundled for the fee. They are a bit pricey, but they do offer good value with both channels having just under 400 titles posted now. A new title gets added to each channel every two or three days.
Is VB still a great value? Definitely. But they should modify their business model now that their so far ahead of the competition and focus on quality rather than quantity. I’d be satisfied with one update a day to have better quality. |
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10-09-10 08:42am
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Club Seventeen
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78.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Huge site
- Multiple updates daily
- Great value for video and photo collectors
- Multiple download and streaming options
- Photos available as singles and zips
- TBP discount
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Mostly non-exclusive
- Model names are often incorrect |
Bottom Line: |
I can’t really explain why I waited so long to join this mega site but now that I have I wish I had more information. I hope that my comments might make PU reader more informed about what the site has to offer. Club Seventeen is a generic porn site that focuses on young models (18 to early 20s) and covers all of the main porn niches that you’d expect. The site is pretty good but is much better for the casual porn collector rather than the serious porn hoarder like me. I’ll start with the bad news.
I think the biggest drawback to the site is that most, if not all, of the material here is non-exclusive. The vast majority of the models are Eastern European and Russian and having subscribed to many EE/Russian model sites over the years I saw a lot of repeats. This isn't all bad since joining this site gives you access to a lot of porn from other sites so this may be a cost-effective way to get some popular EE/Russian models.
The bad news about joining to get stuff from specific models is that the site seems to pretty much make up model names as they go along. Yes, I know that EE/Russian models change their names more often than American models change their socks but most of the model names here don’t line up with any known aliases for these models. There are several dozen American pornstars on the site too and even they have made up names. So if you’re looking for a specific model you’ll likely be going on facial recognition.
The site offers some ‘bonus’ material from other porn sites. It is clearly identified when it is part of the bonus and the original site is also identified. While it is possible to see this as advertising since you can join the ‘bonus’ site through Club Seventeen you should note that it is more than an ad because you are giving streaming access to those scenes. (It should be noted that Club Seventeen doesn’t use the same trick that Bang Bros is notorious for and when you click on a bonus here you are not deemed to have joined the additional site and have it billed to your card.)
The site has a lot going for it too. For one thing, it’s huge. There are over 3100 models here with almost 5000 videos and almost 8500 photo sets. For the subscription fee (with a great TBP discount, BTW) this is an amazing value for your porn dollars.
The site updates daily with multiple uploads per day. Both videos and photos are added each day.
The site offers a lot for both video and photo collectors. Overall the video quality is better than average. All the newer videos are available to be streamed or downloaded in multiple resolutions, most often in 540p, 720p and 1080p. I downloaded the 1080p videos because the file sizes were reasonable and bitrates for those varied from 12,000 to 8,000 kb/s. Older videos can top out at 1280x720 with bitrates around 5,000 kb/s. The really old videos (the site started in 2000) are mostly 540p but that’s to be expected.
Photos are available as zips and as singles. I don’t collect photos but the newest sets (dating back about a year) are offered with a 2667x4000 resolution. They look great. Older sets are lower resolutions obviously.
One feature I like is that the site shows you the videos and photo sets that will be released over the coming two weeks.
The site allows download managers and I had no problems using IDM. The links didn’t time out quickly. I didn’t find any download limit either and I downloaded 70GB in a day with no issues.
As for a recommendation, the answer is both yes and maybe. I’d definitely recommend a membership here to someone who dabbles in porn collecting. For the casual collector this site offers a huge amount of non-exclusive porn on an easy-to-use site with an amazing discounted price. This is likely one of the best values available. But I think the answer has to be different for the serious porn collector: I think the best I can say is that a serious collector may want to consider joining. The reason I say that for the serious collector is that you may find that you already have a lot of what’s offered here and if you’re trying to add scenes and photos of your favorite models you’ll be frustrated that the names are made up. But even for the serious collector, this is an amazing deal. So count that as a conditional recommendation and if you join you’re at least aware of what you’ll get, and what limitations there are, when you do. |
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03-12-16 05:56am
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Brandi Belle
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78.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Cute solo model
- 200+ Videos
- Can be added as an extra-cost option with BangBros
- Unique take on the solo model concept
- Good mix of solo, girl/girl and boy/girl scenes
- Good mix of traditional porn and amateur stuff
- Offers full trial |
Cons: |
- No longer updating
- Video quality was average back when it was shot and is below average now
- Be careful when cancelling if you’ve added this as an addition site to the network |
Bottom Line: |
We’ve had this discussion here before: can a site still have value if it isn’t updating? I come down strongly on the ‘yes’ side of that debate. In this case, even if you pay full price you get approximately 80 hours of exclusive video for $18. That’s fair value even if it isn’t updating.
Brandi Belle is a cute, late-teen, early-twenties model. I’d never seen her before so I assume her only work is on this site. She’s definitely attractive, but not necessarily got a ‘porn’ look to her. She looks more like the hot girl next door.
While the site is technically a solo girl site, it isn’t like so many other solo sites: it offers solo scenes, girl/girl scenes and even boy/girl hardcore scenes. What makes the site stand out, however, are the scene set-ups in many of the scenes: many of them aren’t the standard scenes so common in porn. Sure, a lot of the scenes use common set-ups, but many have quirky set-ups like having three girls lie down and see how far a guy can ejaculate onto them, or deciding whether the Fleshlight feels as good as the real thing. Those set-ups add some fun and spice to the scenes and make them more interesting to watch. Some of the scenes seem to feature real amateurs too. They appear to be the genuine thing since some of them are pretty nervous about being on camera.
The site is part of the Bang Bros network and you have a choice of how you get access. I added it as an extra-cost add-on to my BB membership but they also have a 1-day full trial or you can get monthly access to the site for an $18 TBP discount. I don’t know if you buy the latter membership if you get full network access too. When adding the site as an extra cost add-on it appears that you get full access to the site. I note this because I also added Public Invasion and only got access to a handful of the scenes offered on the main site. TBP states that there are 200+ scenes on the site and I downloaded most of them and have 205.
Since this is a Bang Bros site it is organized in the same way as the other sites on that network. There really is no need for a search function.
Download speeds were average but as with the rest of the network while download managers work the timeouts on the links are so short that using a manager is difficult.
Like Bang Bros, the videos are available in WMVs or MP4s. Since the videos were produced and added between 2005 and 2007 the video quality isn’t up to 2012 standards. It was probably just average when it was produced. I use WMVs and the most common resolution is 640x480 at 1000kb/s and 30fps. The next most common resolution is 720x406 at 1500kb/s and 30fps.
Back in April exotics4rme noted that there could be problems in cancelling your membership when you add on additional sites. Those concerns are still valid. While a simple click will cancel your main network membership you will have to hunt around to find any add-ons to ensure that those are cancelled too. I’m not saying that I think they do this deliberately, but they don’t make that clear and they don’t make it easy. This could be solved if they used a reputable biller but they don’t – they bill in-house.
The bottom line is that the site is large enough and offers three membership options that can make the site a good value even if it no longer updates. The site offers a lot of video and a unique take on the solo girl niche. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes the niche and likes Brandi Belle’s look. |
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07-22-12 07:02am
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Blown By Rone
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- It’s Samantha Rone, dammit!
- Part of a larger network
- Exclusive scenes
- Photos and videos
- Updates weekly
- Good price
- Supports download managers
- Bills through CC Bill |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Possible download limit (see below)
- Possible speed issues (see below)
- Lower than average video quality
- No TBP discount |
Bottom Line: |
I took notice of another site in this network when it was listed at TBP (Alex Legend) and had added it to my list of sites to join. It kept getting bumped down in that list though, right up until Blown By Rone was added. As a big fan of Ms. Rone’s I jumped at the chance to get some additional exclusive material with this stunning woman.
Samantha Rone burst into my life in 2012 when she did a video for Amateur Allure. It was love at first sight. She did a few more for them and it only cemented my interest. The thing about Samantha was that she seemed like an innocent girl-next-door and even though she was doing hardcore scenes I never expected her to really throw herself into the industry. But in the past year Samantha has done some pretty extreme stuff, including a couple of anal scenes with Mike Adriano and even five scenes with Legal Porno, who are probably on the ragged edge of hardcore these days. Samantha even does a DAP for Legal Porno. There is no way I could have foreseen that from the sweet, innocent model I fell for in 2012.
Unfortunately Ms. Rone’s site is let down by some significant flaws. But first the good news…
The site (and all the sites on the network) are divided into logical sections. There is a section for photos and one for videos. Both of those sections are further broken down into seven categories.
I don’t collect photos so I can’t give a lot of information on them, but there are currently 37 photo sets available with a new one added to one of the seven categories each week. They are available as singles and a zip and come in at 2000x1333.
The videos are in the same seven categories. The site currently has:
Solo – 7
Lesbian – 5
Blowjob – 1 (you’d think a site called “blown by…” would have a few more blowjobs!
B/G – 6
Threesome – 2
Fetish/Bondage – 4
BTS – 2
Videos have two resolutions available – 1920x1080 (6000kb/s) and 1280x720 (3000kb/s).
Unfortunately the videos don’t live up to those specs. I’m not technologically astute, but it seems there is too much pixilation and other flaws for these specs.
The video section also updates with one video per week to one of the seven categories.
TBP reports that there is a daily download limit of 20GB on the network. I can’t explain this discrepancy but I downloaded 40GB in one day and didn’t hit a limit. To be safe though, consider that there may be a limit though 20GB isn't bad.
I had no problem using a download manager… for the first while at least.
I’m not going to weigh in conclusively on this and unfortunately my membership is about to expire in a few days so I may not have the opportunity to confirm or deny this. When I first joined three weeks ago I downloaded a lot and had no issue with the speed that pages loaded or download speeds but more recently both have fallen off of a cliff. Over the past couple of days the time it takes for a page to load has increased to an unreasonable amount. We’re talking dial-up when I get 330+Mbps easily. Download speeds are SUBSTANTIALLY lower than I get elsewhere lately. I’m used to seeing download speeds (using IDM) of around 35MB/s. Over the past couple of days I’m seeing 200kbps here. This may be temporary and if it is fixed before my membership expires I’ll post a comment. This also applies to the whole network.
Speaking of a network, this site is part of a large network of 34 sites. Most of the sub-sites feature one model (as does the Blown By Rone site). I didn’t download much from the other sites as all of the models tended to older and more full-figured than I prefer (Julia Ann and Lauren Phillips, for example).
If I could sum up how I feel about this site in one line it would be this: Samantha Rone deserves better than this. Sure, if you’re like me and are a fan then this site may be worth checking out. If the network adds value for you that’s even better. I don’t regret paying $25 to get a handful of exclusive Samantha scenes but the average porn buyer may not feel that way. If there is something on this network that tickles your fancy then join, but go in with your eyes open.
Update - I'm writing this several days later with my membership about to expire and download speeds have improved marginally. They are still VERY slow though at less that 1MB/s when other sites have 35-40MB/s. |
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09-18-17 04:19pm
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GF Leaks
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large network
- Six themed sites
- Network had been streaming-only but now allows downloads of everything.
- Supports download managers
- Fast download speeds
- Good mix of known and relatively unknown models
- Can sort scenes in several ways
- TBP discount |
Cons: |
- Low file resolutions on most files
- Updates slowly
- Not much anal |
Bottom Line: |
I had considered joining this network several times in the past but I was always put off by the fact that for a long time it was streaming-only. The network has since changed their business model and now offers downloads of everything.
The network is made up of six distinct sites and they offer one portal where everything is listed. The sites are:
• Black GFs, 297 scenes, two updates per month
• Crazy Asian GFs 55 scenes, one update per month (though there are longer gaps too)
• Crazy College GFs 47scenes, unsure of updates. There was one added in May 2017 but the next recent update is 2015
• Dare Dorm 171 scenes, one update per month
• GF Revenge 479 scenes, weekly updates
• Horny Birds 16 scenes last updated August 2012
There really isn't a uniform theme through the whole network though if you were looking for one it might be the wacky adventures that young and sexy women can get up to. Obviously Black GFs and Crazy Asian GFs have the theme of black or Asian models in them.
Crazy College GFs follows the reality-based theme and narrows it a bit because it has a lot of scenes that have an element of public nudity and/or sex. There are scenes in public parks, libraries and parked cars.
Dare Dorm is also easily figured out: it focuses on the goings-on in dorm rooms with multiple couples having fun. There is a mix of b/g and g/g scenes.
GF Revenge doesn’t necessarily live up to the title, but that’s not a bad thing. These are mostly standard-fare b/g porn scenes.
Horny Birds has a loose theme on what groups of sexy women can get up to when they’re in the mood to play. Think of a group of women hiring a male stripper and you’ll get the idea of what this site offers.
The network allows download managers and I found downloads to be fast and reliable. I didn’t encounter any download limits.
The network permits sorting by the site name (which narrows the theme) but it also uses categories and tags to help find what you want. You can also sort by model. And speaking of models, the network offers a good mix of known porn stars and lesser-known models.
If the site has a serious flaw it is definitely file resolutions. Even as recently as a year ago files might only be available in SD. Newer files do offer HD options but the network really was late making them available. If you’re really fussy about getting high-quality HD scenes then you may be disappointed.
In many cases the highest resolution available is only 768x432 (1500 kbps). Another common resolution that tops the choices is 1024x576 (3000 kbps). Most newer files offer at least a 720 option with files at 1280x720 and bitrates that vary from 2000 to 4000 kbps. A majority of the latest uploads are now also offering 1920x1080 with a 10,000kbps bitrate. Framerates vary between 23 and 30 fps. It’s fair to say that these file specs weren’t up to usual industry standards even when they were originally uploaded. (I wonder if this is a result of the site having been streaming-only where lower resolutions are more common.)
This may or may not be important for any prospective members but I was only able to find one anal scene on the whole network and that one wasn’t well shot. This seems odd in that anal is a common and popular niche. Anal isn't even listed as a tag or category.
The bottom line is that most of the porn offered here is aimed right at the middle of mainstream hardcore. I like the fact that the network is spiced up a bit with some public nudity and sex and Dare Dorm scenes are often zany and a lot of fun to watch. Any prospective member needs to go in aware that most of the scenes are only available in relatively low resolutions. But if you can accept those lower resolutions you will have access to a lot of porn and when you factor in a solid TBP discount the value of the site is greatly increased. I doubt that I’ll add this to my list of sites to rejoin but I am glad that I signed up for a month. |
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09-04-17 04:23pm
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235
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Shoplyfter
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75.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Unique Niche
- TBP Discount
- 37 Videos
- Updates with one new site per week |
Cons: |
- Model name not given on the site
- No search function and no means to search by model
- Too wide a gap between file resolutions and file sizes
- Pages slow to load |
Bottom Line: |
You’ve got to hand it to people who make porn for their ability to take just about any situation and sexualize it. In all my years of surfing for and buying porn I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a site that sexualizes shoplifting and getting caught. But, in hindsight, the interaction between a shoplifter and a store security guard creates a power imbalance and a power imbalance forms the plot for a lot of porn. So in that sense, Shoplyfter isn’t unusual.
The site is relatively new, having begun in September 2016. As of this writing there are 37 videos available and the site continues to grow with the addition of one video per week.
As a fan of how a scene is set up this site has a lot to offer. The set up for each scene is quite lengthy and begins with the model or models being brought into a dingy office by a store security guard. The underlying set up is the same in each scene: the model has been caught shoplifting and will now be questioned by the security guard before being turned over to the police to be charged with a crime. In each case the model presents as being quite nervous and there is an obvious sinister element to the security guard (whose face we never see). As each interrogation continues the model is searched and this requires removing her clothes in case something is hidden under them. Photos are also taken by the guard. Each scene progresses through the interrogation and into the guard suggesting that there is a way that the model could avoid all the hassles and shame that being a criminal would bring. That suggestion is, of course, some kind of sexual activity. In most of the scenes that sexual activity starts off fairly tame with fondling. After a bit of fondling the guard takes out his cock and the shoplifter is ordered to perform oral sex on him. In all of the scenes that progresses to sex.
In a majority of the scenes the model is portrayed as being reluctant at first but then is shown as enjoying the sex if not the circumstances.
A majority of the scenes are with one female model but there are several with two models.
Apart from the setup these are all fairly standard hard-core scenes. I didn’t see any scenes that had anything unusual in them.
The website itself is logically laid out as you would expect with a site that is currently this small. All of the scenes are laid out on a short series of pages and a member doesn’t even have to open a new page to access each scene as the download options are available right on that page.
Speaking of scene resolutions, they are available in three: 640x360 (850kb/s), 960x540 (2700kb/s) and 1980x1080 (12000 kb/s). All scenes are 29fps.
As you can tell by looking at the available resolutions above, there is too wide a gap between the available resolutions. The site really needs to add a fourth resolution to bridge the wide gap between the 540p and 1080p files. The obvious solution would be to either replace the 540p files with 720p files or add them as a fourth option.
Apart from the obvious drawbacks of having to take either a too small or too large resolution for your personal preference the other issue is file size. For example, with one of the scenes I checked on the file size for the three resolutions was 358MB, 1GB and 4.3GB. That is a large difference in file size.
The site has lacks a search function, tags or even model names. As such it isn’t possible to search and find specific models that you like. Each scene is given a name on the page but that name doesn’t include the model name. Fortunately, the model name is provided when you go to download the scene so you aren’t left guessing. An obvious and easy improvement for the site would be to include the model name in the scene description.
I had no problem using a download manager to queue-up seems to download. I didn’t encounter any timeouts but I also didn’t really download in any way that I might encounter them if they exist.
I found that download speeds were equivalent to what I see on comparable sites, which is to say that speeds were good and downloads were stable. As an aside, I’ve had other memberships from the same parent company and find that while the downloads themselves are quite fast the page loads take much longer than I’m used to. The slow page loads isn’t a deal-breaker for me and shouldn’t be for any prospective member either but you should be aware of it.
There isn't anything about this site that would cause me to highly recommend it. It is good porn with some top models, but apart from the scene set-up (which some will appreciate) the sex isn't any different from what you can get on many other sites. With regular updates the site continues to grow and with the TBP discount it is a good value. The site is good but not great. Prospective members who go in knowing the site’s limitations will likely be satisfied customers. |
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06-05-17 05:02pm
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Bad Daddy POV
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75.0
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Status: |
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- 20 videos
- Updates with one new scene per week
- Mainstream porn with a little kink
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Scenes start streaming automatically
- Deceptive tour pages
- Expensive for what’s currently offered
- No TBP discount |
Bottom Line: |
Recently there have been several new sites available that feature porn in the step-father / step-daughter niche. Among those are Daughter Swap and Dad Crush, both of which are great sites. Add to this list Bad Daddy POV.
The site only started back in January so it’s still pretty small with only 20 videos currently uploaded. The good news is that it is growing, albeit slowly, with one new scene being added weekly. (A mark against the site is that the tour page is set up to make it look like there are a lot more videos than there actually are. With 15 videos on the first page and four pages you’d think that there could be up to 60 videos. Clicking on any other page on the tour brings you to the join page. But there are only 20 videos as of this review.)
The scenes are similar to what you’d find on most other sites in this niche. The step-dad and step-daughter find themselves home alone and some scenario is concocted to get them in a compromising position. If you’re a porn writer you can come up with dozens of short plots and you’ll find those here. The most common plot here seems to be that the daughter wants something (money, car, etc.) and barters with Daddy for it. After that most scenes turn into a normal hardcore scene.
This is an entirely subjective opinion, but it seems to me that this niche is best done by using models who are younger, as in 18-22 or at least look younger by being petite. Part of this is because this niche usually relies on some power imbalance to drive the plot and the heat. If you agree with me on this, then some of the models on this site aren't a great fit. Are they beautiful? Definitely. But Romi Rain is 29 and it’s hard for the viewer to see her as a step-daughter to someone only 10 years her senior. Likewise with models like Jessa Rhodes. She is obviously beautiful but I think the fact that she has a seriously augmented chest detracts from the viewer seeing her as a naïve step-daughter.
I’m not generally a fan of any POV scenes so I may be a bit biased, but the POV camerawork here isn't as good as it is on some other sites. I found that when the action really gets going the camera can become a bit too shaky.
The scenes are all available in three resolutions, all of which are in MP4 format. They are 854x480 (3000 kb/s), 1280x720 (5000 kb/s) and 1929x1080 (8000 kb/s). Most of the scenes are quite short by typical standards with the average length being around 12 minutes. There are several scenes that are under 10 minutes but that also means that most members can download the 1080p scenes since the file size isn't huge given the scene length.
The site is logically laid out and simple to use, but on a site this small that’s what you’d expect. There are tags on the scenes for some of the more common porn searches but there is no specific search function. But given that this is relatively standard porn that’s not really an issue: you’ll find oral and vaginal sex and not anything kinkier than that. (Apparently step-daughters don’t do anal with their step-fathers…)
Screencaps are available but only as singles. It’s fair to say, however, that this is a video site and not a photo site.
The site supports download managers and I found download speeds at what I see at most porn sites, which is to say it’s good. I didn’t encounter any links timing out or hit a download limit but given that there are only 20 scenes and the file sizes are reasonable I wouldn’t have expected any issues like that.
A minor quibble is that when you open a page for a scene it starts streaming automatically. I really wish sites would stop doing that.
I wouldn’t ordinarily do this, but while I like this site there are better choices out there for anyone interested in this niche. You can get a better value with Dad Crush which has more scenes and has an introductory price that’s half what Bad Daddy POV charges. If you agree with my opinion above that this niche requires models with a certain look then Dad Crush is also the better choice. My personal favourite in (sort of) this niche is Daughter Swap. But it isn't strictly step-father / step-daughter porn. Instead, there are two father/daughter couples where the fathers swap their daughter to the other guy.
I’m really on the fence as to whether I can recommend this site or not. The porn is generally good and site is well thought-out and easy to use. If you really like this niche (or really like POV) then this site may be worth a look. But at the full price of $30 USD for a small site it might be best waiting until the site grows a bit more, lowers the price to reflect the site size before joining or offers a TBP discount. Or you can follow one of my above recommendations and join a competing site until things improve at Bad Daddy. |
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05-26-17 04:25am
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237
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Naughty Midwest Girls XXX
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75.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Rare site in an underserved niche (US-based old/young)
- Has some beautiful models
- 140+ scenes
- Mostly boy/girl but does have some girl/girl
- Offers both photos and videos
- Reasonable price for the site
- Updates |
Cons: |
- Production values are relatively low
- Wide discrepancy in the cameras used
- Updates on a bi-weekly schedule |
Bottom Line: |
I found this to be a tough review to write because while I really like the porn that this site has to offer the site itself and the production values leave a lot to be desired. This really is a case of overlooking some flaws to get access to a niche I really like, but I’m sure we’ve all done that before.
I don’t know how I missed this site for all of these years but I’m glad I stumbled on it. Given the title I presumed it was one of the many sites that feature solo masturbation scenes or things like wet T-shirt contests. Nothing in the title indicated to me that the site offered old/young porn.
I’m sure if you are a regular porn subscriber you have also run across numerous sites like this that have an amateur feel to them. Everything about it seems amateur from the production values to the website layout. Sites like these lack the polish of the large studio-based sites. That isn’t a bad thing. My experience is that when I find an under-served niche that I like run by an amateur the sites often have some of the hottest material because the people making it share the interest as well. That seems to be the case here too.
The site does have a lot going for it in that it offers porn in the rare niche of US-based old/young porn. Most of the models here seem to be relatively unknown and most are very attractive. The male talent in most of the scenes seems to be the guy who owns the site and he is a pudgy guy who has to be in his late 50s or early 60s. Call me twisted, but something about that scenario adds a lot of heat to a scene for me.
While there is a mixture of kinds of scenes on the site most of them are boy/girl hard-core. There are some solo scenes. There are also several girl/girl scenes but most of those turn into boy/girl/girl after some lesbian action.
Many sites featuring old/young porn seem to go in for the stepdaughter theme and I realize that creeps some people out. That theme is used here but the more common theme is that of a babysitter.
Most of the scenes are shot using a combination of POV and tripod-mounted cameras. This method is never going to give the best scenes but they can work. A significant problem that this site suffers from is that one of the cameras used (usually for POV stuff) is very low resolution. It is low enough that it detracts from the overall scene.
There are currently over 140 scenes on the site. The site is updating and it shouldn’t be a surprise that the updates only happen approximately once every two weeks.
The videos are available in WMV and MP4 formats but each of those only comes in one resolution and those aren't great. The WMVs are 720x480, 1600 kb/s and 30fps. The MP4s are a bit better at 1280x720, 4000 kb/s and 30fps. One minor flaw is that the MP4 files are listed as being for the iPad so I wrongly assumed that they’d be lower resolution than the WMV files. But the thing is that SOME of them are lower resolution and some aren't. I can accept that older files are lower resolution but it would be useful to list the resolution on the file so the viewer could choose not only between the file type but the resolution as well.
Photos are available as singles or zips. Those aren't high-resolution either at 1280x960.
Initially I wasn’t able to use my download manager but I think now that may have been an isolated issue or a problem with my software because the site now allows me to use one.
This won’t be an issue for many readers, but I was a bit disappointed to not find many anal scenes at all. There are three or four and these aren't the best filmed scenes on the site.
The price for a monthly membership is pretty good and goes a long way to making up for some of the site’s shortcomings. There isn't a TBP discount but the regular monthly price is just over $20.
The bottom line for me is that this site is both easy to recommend and easy to reject – and that all depends on whether you like this niche. The site has some serious flaws: the production values aren't great and the site has an overall amateur feel to it. It lacks the quality of a bigger, better funded site. But if you like this niche those flaws can either be overlooked or they can add to the allure of the scene. So if you like this niche the site gets a strong recommendation and if you don’t like this niche you should probably spend your porn budget elsewhere. |
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09-12-16 03:25pm
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238
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Arch Angel Video
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- A-list porn stars
- Mainstream porn
- Good production values
- Serves some specific niches well
- Supports download managers
- Multiple viewing and downloading options |
Cons: |
- Small site (25 titles)
- No longer updating (last update May 2016)
- No TBP discount
- Scenes start streaming when link is opened |
Bottom Line: |
I’m a fan of studio sites because I find that if I like the studio then I’m apt to like a lot of the material they make available. A good example of this is New Sensations, which I join regularly simply because they offer a lot of porn in the niches I like. I wasn’t really familiar with Arch Angel Video when I joined so I took a bit of a chance. I don’t regret joining, but for those who may be contemplating a membership there are a few factors you’ll definitely want to know about.
The porn is high-quality and it falls right into the zone where many studios also aim. I guess if you offer something for everyone you’re apt to get more customers. The production values are high, with professional lighting, sound and editing. The models are mostly A-list and all the porn aims for the mainstream where it isn't intentionally misogynistic and the women are the stars of the scenes (rather than sites where the males tend to want to make themselves the center of attention).
The site layout is simple and logical. It’s the model used by many other sites: the main site is broken down into pages and each of the pages shows a DVD box cover. Each DVD opens into a separate page with the scenes shown with performer information, a brief description and tags. This may be just a pet peeve, but there are no download or streaming options on this page. Each scene must be selected and that opens into yet a third page with all the viewing options. This is definitely a pet peeve, and one I’ll always complain about: the scene begins streaming automatically as soon as you open the link. Be sure to turn your speakers down.
Once at a scene page the viewer has a lot of options available. There are photos and screencaps available. Oddly, for 2016, the scenes are available as a series of clips too. Streaming and downloading both are available in four resolutions: 240p, 480p, 720p and 1080p. I downloaded the 720p scenes and they are 1080x720, 6000kb/s and 30fps. Those are good specs and the scenes look good on a 24” monitor and a 50” TV.
This isn't a pro or con, but the site does feature a lot of MILF/big breast porn for those who are into that. It’s a higher percentage than on other studio sites. But don’t worry if you’re like me; there are still lots of young and petite models too. Interracial scenes are fairly common too, and many of those play up the “big black cock” stereotype.
The site isn't without some serious drawbacks, with the two big ones being related. First, the site is small with only 25 DVDs currently on offer. Second, it seems destined to stay small since the last update was five weeks ago at the end of May, 2016. I looked at the Arch Angel Productions list at IAFD and they are a small studio but I can’t tell if they are still actively making new porn or not. To be safe, you may want to consider that if you join what you see is all of what you get and all of what you’ll ever get.
A secondary drawback to the site is that there is no TBP discount offered. With just 25 DVDs available this isn't a great value at $30.
The site supports download managers. (I use IDM and queue scenes for downloads.) I didn’t have an issue with links timing out and download speeds were good.
The bottom line is that while the site offers some great porn with some of the best models in the business, and offers that porn across several popular niches, the fact that the site seems to have died on the vine makes it hard to recommend unless there is specific porn here that you must have. Even then, you’ll pay full price for it which makes it an okay value. A TBP discount would make it a much better value. |
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07-07-16 04:29pm
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Pegas Productions
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Stunning Quebec models
- A true network with niche sites
- Large site
- Excellent outdoor nudity/sex site
- Supports download managers
- Updates regularly |
Cons: |
- Outdated scene bitrates
- Some of the updates are streaming only
- Server constantly stopped responding and required logging in again
- Dialogue is in French only (but that really doesn’t detract from the scenes) |
Bottom Line: |
I’m aware that Quebec has a homegrown porn industry but I’ve never really gone looking for any Quebec porn until I saw this site listed on TBP.
The site is what I would consider to be a true network in that there are 13 sites serving some distinct niches. I contrast this with other sites that sell themselves as a network but have ‘sites’ that are all basically the same. The sites (with current number of videos) are:
• 3Way Porn: 43
• Blow me POV: 17
• Cutie Pussies: 29 (solo)
• Fresh and Innocent: 39
• Fun Size Teen: 14
• Just Eden: 37 (billed as an X-Art style site)
• Let's Fuck Outside: 37
• Lezzie BFF: 46
• Nasty Rookies: 27 (auditions)
• Samantha Ardente: 11
• Shake the Snake: 66 (no specific niche)
• Spice My Sex Life: 14 (mild kink)
• Straight in the Ass: 15
The number of videos I’ve listed is less than what the TBP page lists because many of the videos are listed on an ‘updates’ page that has some unreleased stuff and some bloopers mixed in. I have no idea why the site doesn’t add the unreleased scenes to an existing site and create a separate bloopers page. I did find a lot of scenes on the update page that were streaming only.
Depending on the age of the scene the file resolution can be fairly low. I’ve seen as low as 640x480. The newer stuff is available for mobile devices and in 1280x720. The real flaw is that the bitrates are quite low. The newest scenes are 2500kb/s which is far less than what other sites are using and it shows. There are scenes with bitrates as low as 1400. It’s possible that all of the material is quite old and they’re just slowly releasing it on the internet. There are some indications that this could be exactly what’s going on.
The site adds a new scene every two days. While that sounds great, consider that the August 30 update is a three-minute, streaming-only video. To make matters worse, the thumbnail shows it as a public nudity scene but none of that footage is in the upload.
The site allows download managers. Download speeds are quite fast.
I want to single out one site for specific mention. I’m a big fan of outdoor scenes and a big fan of public nudity so I was happy to see a site that catered to this. What I wasn’t expecting was how over-the-top some of the scenes are. Many of the scenes are far in excess of American public nudity sites and even surpass many European sites. One scene is shot in a busy commercial area in Quebec City on a stairwell with full nudity. The scene is shot at dusk but this is a well-known and heavily travelled tourist area so this was pretty risky. Another, perhaps even more risky scene, is shot on the boardwalk at the Quebec City harbour next door to the iconic Frontenac hotel. Full nudity happens here too. And these aren’t short scenes either. Still another is recorded with a couple in the back of a horse-drawn carriage through old Quebec City on a busy day. This isn’t as risky because there are lots of people around but there is some oral sex, nudity and fingering. All three of these scenes are with the Quebec model named Candy Kiss who is young and beautiful. She has many scenes on this specific site. The other models who do risky outdoor public scenes are hot too. If you share my love of these kinds of scenes you really should consider a membership here regardless of some of the flaws. The only stuff I’ve seen that comes close are the European scenes at Public Disgrace. The scenes here at Pegas aren’t BDSM though; they’re a lot more playful than the PD scenes.
The site appears to have an annoying technical flaw. Every time (and I mean EVERY TIME) I downloaded a few videos the server would stop responding and I’d have to leave the site, go back to it and log in again. I tried different browsers and the problem was the same. I don’t know if the site times out or if it’s just a flaw, but if you join I hope you don’t have the same issue.
Many of the models here are really beautiful, though that shouldn’t be a surprise since Quebec women are known for this trait. Some of these models could have easily been A-list models in the U.S.
In a vast majority of the scenes the interaction between the models is in French. For those with no exposure to the language you may not like this. Some newer scenes have a download option with subtitles.
So do I recommend this network? I do, but I also have some reservations in that while a lot of the porn is really hot and features some stunning models, the site itself leaves a lot to be desired. I’m often left wondering why studios put so much effort into making great porn and then sell it to customers in resolutions that are far out of date. If, however, you’re a fan of risky outdoor sex in public places then my recommendation goes way up. Let's Fuck Outside offers some amazing stuff in this rare niche. And at $25 it’s a good value and worth having a look at. |
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08-31-15 04:51pm
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Drone Hunter
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Part of the Mofos network
- Innovative and unique concept
- Most scenes have an outdoor theme
- TBP discount
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Hasn’t updated in four months
- Typical Mofos / Brazzers model look
- Site will log you off after an hour |
Bottom Line: |
I suppose that with the popularity of drones it was only a matter of time before someone started using them in porn. The concept is unique and it does add to the scenes but for whatever reason the concept seems to have died since the site hasn’t added a new scene since April 2015.
In all of the scenes the drone footage is just edited into footage shot by a regular camera. The one possible exception to that is the one lesbian scene which may be all drone footage. In all of the scenes the drone is played up as being surreptitious video that the female model doesn’t know of.
The most common scene setup is where the male talent is bringing a girl back to his place and he contacts the ‘drone hunter’ to shoot some secret video of them having sex. There is usually some fake communication between the male talent and the drone operator. A few of the scenes use the scenario where neither the male or female talent know they’re being viewed by the drone.
The site is quite small with only nine videos uploaded and it looks like it will stay small because it hasn’t updated in months. Given that each scene has to be set up to allow access for the drone there is an outdoor or voyeur element to each scene. Perhaps that part of it caused some problems in filming. It seems reasonable to think that a drone hovering over a rooftop patio or looking in a hotel window might attract some unwanted attention. On the other hand, if you like outdoor or public scenes this site certainly has that.
The biggest advantage to the site is the fact that it’s part of the Mofos network so you’ll have access to a lot of other sites. Also, because Mofos is one of the leading porn sites you can expect their level of quality in the site. There are tags on the scenes but with only nine scenes that really doesn’t add anything.
The downside to this being part of the Mofos network is that many of the scenes feature models with the signature Mofos/Brazzers look: big breasts (often fake) and other body mods. One of the models had enough collagen injected into her lips that she looked pretty silly, and to my eyes anyway, not very sexy.
The scenes can be streamed and downloaded. The streaming is available in three resolutions (up to 1080p) and there are six options for downloads: 272p, 368p, 480p, 720p and 1080p in MP4 format and a 480p in WMV. I downloaded the 720p and those come in at 1280x720 at 8000kb/s and 29fps. With those specs you’d expect them to look good and they do, on both a 24” monitor and a 50” TV.
I used Internet Download Manager and didn’t have any issues with the links timing out. If they do time-out that happens after a reasonable delay. One annoyance is that the site itself will kick you out approximately once per hour and require that you sign in again.
I can’t say that I’d recommend this site unless you really have a thing for drones because it’s just too small and looks to have gone dormant already. But if you’re interested in the site and you join the network to get it then the real value is in the network itself which has over 2000 videos available. When you consider that you get 2000 scenes for the low TBP discount price of $15USD it really is a good deal. |
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08-10-15 11:10am
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241
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Girls Do Porn
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- True amateurs
- Many stunning young models
- Nearly 300 scenes
- Multiple viewing options
- Fast downloads
- Bill through reputable billers |
Cons: |
- Terrible site design
- Expensive if you want HD
- No model names or info
- No unique identifiers for scenes
- Site defaults back to page one
- Better porn options are available |
Bottom Line: |
GDP is a site that reviewers either love or hate. It’s a site that has squandered its potential. The problem with the site is that it has some beautiful amateurs in some pretty good porn let down by one of the worst site layouts on the internet. If anyone can learn anything from this site it’s how not to design a webpage.
The real value of the site is in the models themselves: they are true amateurs and most of them are really quite beautiful. That depends on a bit of a subjective assessment of course since most of the models are Caucasian, young (18-22) and fairly petite. The porn itself is very good, if somewhat formulaic. Most of the scenes follow the same formula of interview, blowjob with the model clothed, some sex in specific positions, more oral, usually more sex and finally finishing with the guy jerking off on the model’s face as she kneels in front of him.
There are currently close to 300 scenes available and the site does update. I can’t be specific about the update schedule because the scenes aren't dated but it appears that at least one new scene is added per week.
The scenes are available in streaming at resolutions called high, medium, low and mobile. The downloads are available in 720x405, 1280x720 and mobile. Paying for a premium membership adds downloads in 1920x1280 and 4K on the newer scenes. I downloaded the 1280x720 versions and they come in at 6000 kb/s and 29fps. They look good on a 24” monitor and 50” TV.
Where things start to fall apart for the site is the site design itself. Describing the issues that the site has seems a bit overwhelming because there are just so many but I’ll hit the highlights:
• The models aren't named and there is no biography given
• The scenes have no unique identifier at all. I’ve read on other forums where members will refer to a scene by a shoot number but I’ve never seen any unique information for a scene.
• Scenes can’t be opened in a new tab so you have to open them in your main browser window, but when you click to go back you get taken to the first page again and have to re-select the page you were on. To make matters worse, when you do finally get back to the page you just left the eight thumbnails are all in different order. I ended up downloading several scenes more than once.
• Only eight anal scenes.
The membership options aren't simple either. In the past you were required to stay for a second month to download HD files but now you can just pay to get the additional access immediately. I opted for the base membership because I’m happy with the 1280x720 files but to access the behind-the-scenes and ‘deleted’ scenes you need pay the additional amount. I figured it would be worth it but there are only 38 BTS scenes and five deleted scenes.
The site bills through Epoch or CC Bill so you can join with confidence that your information will be secure and you can cancel easily.
The site had some of the fastest download speeds that I’ve seen from porn sites. It was rare for me to see less that 20MB/s and most times I was seeing 25MB/s. I downloaded a lot in my first few days and if there is a download limit (which I don’t think there is) it’s high enough that only a serious porn glutton would hit it.
So is it worth joining or not? The site itself is deeply flawed and could be easily improved; the improvements would be like picking low-hanging fruit so that leads me to the conclusion that the site owners aren't really interested in improving things. To be fair to the site owners though, they might be putting their efforts into recruiting the models. The models are really the true value of this site: most of them are true amateurs and are really good looking. They appear to be having fun too. So when I balance the good and the bad I have to give this site a cautious recommendation: the porn is very good but the site is very bad. But, if you go into the deal with your eyes open armed with knowledge of the flaws you’ll be okay. Unless you absolutely must have HD or 4K or have a big thing for BTS or deleted scenes you can save yourself some money and take only the basic membership. So the recommendation is a definite maybe. I likely won’t rejoin and here’s something I’ve never done in a review before; I’ll suggest a better alternative: you can get very similar porn on a much better site at Exploited College Girls. |
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08-03-15 06:00am
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242
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Finishes The Job
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- 1400+ scenes in an under-served niche
- Updates daily
- Lots of A-list models
- Good ability to sort scenes
- Downloads and streaming available
- Photos are available |
Cons: |
- Download speeds range from average to abysmal but tend to be lower than average
- Download managers are a little problematic
- Scene resolution is lower than average |
Bottom Line: |
I suspect that most porn buyers are like me and wish that this niche didn’t need to exist. But in a world where so many porn money shots are the guy jerking off on the girl this site is needed. The whole premise of the site is that the girls finish the guys off in every scene. (That’s the premise, but there are scenes where the usual happens.)
I’ll start with what this site does well – its good porn. The scenes feature top porn models and the scenes are all fairly hot and fun to watch. And there aren't many jerk-off sessions either – most of these girls do finish the job.
This site is really made up of three distinct sub-sites: Mano Job, which features handjobs, The Dick Suckers, which features blowjobs, and Mr. POV which features hardcore b/g sex. It’s a great idea to break the scenes down into those sub-genres because many people may prefer one niche over the others. I find handjobs boring to watch, for example, so I could filter those out if I wanted to.
The site currently has 1400+ scenes available with a new one added every day, making it a good value. In case anyone is interested, Mano Job has 850+ scenes, The Dick Sucker has 300+ scenes and Mr. POV has 280+ scenes.)
The volume of great porn is enough for me to recommend the site, but to allow prospective members to make an informed decision you should know that the site has some flaws. These are, in no particular order:
• The download speeds vary wildly. I could download a scene and see 15MB/s and then download immediately after and see less than 1MB/s. I could understand if I was downloading at peak times and consistently got slow speeds but that wasn’t the case. I tried different times and would get different speeds regularly. Most downloads came in at the slower end of things at about 2MB/s. In my opinion, the download speeds are the greatest flaw here. While I could hit average speeds, in most cases the downloads were well below average speeds expected in 2015.
• Scene quality varied. The scenes had multiple download options but most offered 1080p. The 1080p quality wasn’t consistent: on some scenes it was true 1080 and on others it was lower.
• Video quality isn't the best. I’m not a tech guy but most of the scenes were a little fuzzy with some pixilation – and this is with downloading the best resolution available. I also found that there was a narrow band at the bottom of many of the scenes that was badly pixilated.
• Download managers are supported but may cause issues. I’d normally queue up scenes but since the site doesn’t allow downloads to be stopped and resume I played it safe and downloaded individually.
Scene resolution varies too, but some of that is to be expected since the site has been around for 10 years. Most of the newer scenes are good with 1920x1080 at 6200kb/s and 1280x720 at 2800kb/s being common. Some scenes are lower at 1024x768 at 2500kb/s. There are even some really low resolution scene tossed into the mix but thankfully these seem rare. These are 320x240. Some older scenes are remastered and uploaded as a new scene. While I don’t have a problem with that, these remastered scenes are often fuzzy and pixilated. A problem that the site seems to have is the bitrate they use which is only half of that used by many other sites. I suspect the low bitrate is the culprit for the reduced quality. The file types aren't listed but I always chose one of the two best resolutions depending on file size and those were all in MP4 format.
Streaming is also available in multiple resolutions.
The site also offers some interesting options: apart from the full scene you could stream or download just the money shot (sometimes also offered in slow-motion) and an interview with the model.
The site has a list of tags for all the common niches so it’s easy to sort for anything you’re looking for. You can also sort by models.
Photos are also available, as singles or as a zip. The photos are 1500x1000 which won’t impress any serious collector, but it is fair to say that this is more of a video site than a photo site.
The TBP review says the Terms of Reference mentions a download limit but doesn’t put a number on it. I can’t confirm this, but if there is a limit it has to be fairly high. I downloaded close to 50GB in one day trying to find the limit but was never locked out or prevented from downloading.
Overall I still recommend the site because the good outweighs the bad. This is an under-served niche (which only shows how crappy a lot of porn is these days) and has more than 1400 scenes available on a well-organized site. The download speeds are well below average and the resolution quality could be better, but the site is worth checking out if you can put up with those flaws. I can’t however, give it my highest rating which is to say that this is a site I’ll rejoin. I don’t regret joining once, but the speeds and video quality issues are enough to make it unlikely that I’ll rejoin. |
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04-12-15 07:07am
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243
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Legal Porno
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75.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Updated: |
01-03-15 01:36pm (Update History)
Reason: One paragraph in the original was incorrect based on comments from other PU members. The paragraph provides accurate information now.
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Pros: |
- 1500+ ‘free’ scenes
- Some unique porn – if what they shoot is what you’re interested in
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Unique business model that won’t attract any fans
- Can get VERY expensive
- Website is poorly organized
- Many scenes don’t have female talent listed
- Search function isn't effective |
Bottom Line: |
Let me get one thing out of the way first: my opinion on this site is vastly different from pat362’s and I want to explain why. Pat’s comments are true, accurate and valid and if he hadn’t posted those I would have not known that this site was VERY different from everything else I’ve ever joined. If I hadn’t had the information that pat posted I would have written the same thing as he did. BUT… having been forewarned by pat that this site uses a completely different business model I was prepared for that and willing to join anyway. I’m grateful for pat’s comment since I went in with the full knowledge of what I was getting.
Further to the above, I think it is more accurate to think of this site as a store rather than a normal porn site. You pay your membership fee and that gets you access to 1500+ free scenes but if you want the newest stuff (less than a year old) you have to pay an additional amount. The flaw is that this can be an expensive way to get porn. But if this is the kind of porn you like then you’ll like it a lot.
One aspect that pat commented on was the ‘attestation’ requirement. After you buy a membership you have to prove that you own the credit card you used. The process is simple: the site deducts a small amount from your card. You log on to your bank, confirm the amount and report that back to the LP site. The amount is refunded. The process took me less than five minutes. The process is an attempt to limit piracy.
The second thing I should mention before I get into details is that this isn't mainstream porn that will interest everyone. Most of the scenes here push the limits of hardcore. Most of the scenes are at least threeways and scenes that don’t feature anal sex are rare. You’ll also find milk and cream enema and pee play. The scenes are definitely NOT artcore.
You can choose different levels of membership with the difference being how many premium tickets you want to buy upfront. Once you’re a member there are three different ‘classes’ of videos – the premium ones that you buy with the tickets you get with a membership, the ex-premium ones that you buy with free tickets (you get one free ticket per day when you’re a member) and the free videos you have access to through your membership that you need no tickets for. It appears that videos that require paid tickets move to requiring free tickets after a year. It doesn’t appear that the premium videos ever become completely free with a membership.
The site itself is a giant clusterfuck that needs to made more intuitive. I got used to it but it can be improved. Scene a model naming are a constant problem with generic meaningless names being given to scenes. Since Russian and Eastern European models change their names more than their socks I can’t entirely blame the site for that, but it’s still annoying.
Newer videos are available in two resolutions – 640x480 and 1280x720. Both are MP4. Older videos are only available in the lower resolution. I downloaded the higher resolution and those have a bitrate of 4500/kb/s so they look decent. The older scenes have a 2500 bitrate and they look okay too. Trailers are available, as are photos.
Many of the older ‘free’ scenes are available elsewhere (like Videobox) but the resolutions here are usually higher than at other sites.
I used a download manager and had no issues with it. Download speeds varied and there were some times when the speeds were slow but most of the time they were okay. Sometimes they were fast.
You can buy scenes individually without a membership. One piece of advice is that if you do want to buy a few scenes work out the cost and compare it to a membership. Buying scenes individually is VERY expensive with that cost being about 3 times the cost of the tickets for the same scenes.
I found scoring the site to be difficult and I finally settled on a fairly low score mostly for objective reasons. The biggest of those is that the site isn't easy to use: it could use a major overhaul. If I factored in my subjective opinion on the quality of the porn the score would have been higher. If you like your porn with a harder edge you’ll love the porn even if you don’t like the process to get it. I know the biggest criticism of the site will be having to pay for newer scenes, but think of the membership fee as giving access to 1500+ scenes and you can buy the newest scenes.
I’d recommend the site with four caveats: go in knowing that the porn is a lot harder than what’s available at most other sites, that the site itself is illogical, that unless you’re willing to spend a lot of money you’ll be leaving the newest scenes behind and finally that business model is unlike any other porn site. If you do decide to join go in with your eyes open. I’m glad I joined and I’ll probably rejoin again. |
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12-27-14 09:03am
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244
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Sex Underwater
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Unique theme
- Four additional sites included
- Many A-list models
- Photos and videos available
- Updates |
Cons: |
- MP4 files come in as m4a rather than m4v so there can be playback issues.
- Scene resolutions aren’t great
- Basic site design
- Some problems with download managers |
Bottom Line: |
I have a thing for porn shot anywhere near or in water so I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a site that seemed to cater to that niche. While this review will focus on Sex Underwater I’ll give some details on the other sites that come bundled with the network.
The premise of the site is fairly simple, and the title really sums it up: think of this as standard boy/girl sex that you’d see on other sites, but these scenes are all shot underwater. The majority of the scenes feature the talent simply holding their breath in a pool but there are scenes with SCUBA and supplied air. In the scenes with no air source but the surface the site edits out all the bobbing to the surface for air that the talent has to do. Some of the scenes are shot in the ocean. One thing to note is that these scenes are really quite normal apart from the unique location: this isn’t rough sex and bondage – the water isn’t used as part of some D/s play.
One thing that did surprise me when I saw it was how different the human body looks underwater. I can’t really describe it in detail, but the female form looks amazing when you add buoyancy.
This isn’t an amateur site since there are a lot of A-list models who appear here.
There are currently 300+ scenes. I can’t give an exact number because the site layout is very basic and I’d have to count all of them. The update schedule is a bit sporadic but it appears to add one scene every two weeks. The newest scenes offer some choices for file types and resolutions. The site lists MP4s as being available in 320x180, 640x360 and 1280x720. WMV is available in 960x540. I’d normally download the 1280x720 MP4s but I had a problem with all of them. I will fully admit that this may be my issue since I’m not technologically inclined, but the 1280x720 MP4s all came in m4a format and that caused problems for me on playback. Because of that I downloaded the 960x540 WMVs. The resolution is accurate though the bitrate varies a lot with the file. Some are 1600kb/s while others are 6000. Frame rates vary too (23, 29, 59) and I have no idea why a site would have such variability. Subjectively the scenes look okay.
Unfortunately things change for the worse as the videos get older. Prior to July 2012 there is no option in file type or size and in most cases the scene is broken into two segments. Then, prior to 2008 things get almost unwatchable. Maybe underwater cameras are the limit, but it seems that if you were going to all the trouble to produce this unique content that you’d invest in a better camera.
While I was able to use a download manager I did encounter a few problems. When trying to queue scenes I’d get an error message even though the queue would download.
The network comes with four other water-themed sites:
• Underwater Glamour – This site features mostly solo scenes with a focus on eroticism. There are some girl/girl scenes though. There are currently 70+ scenes here but as they aren’t dated I can’t tell if new ones are ever added. By the resolutions on the scenes (1200x640) I’m guessing that the scenes are at least a few years old.
• Grope-Cam – This is a lot like Underwater Glamour but a little harder in that the female gets groped by an underwater male. There are some sex toys used and there are some BJ scenes. There are currently 250+ scenes and it looks like it updates with a new scene each week.
• Underwater Bath Tub Girls – Another unique site where the premise is a model lying on her back, submerged, in a bathtub with water while masturbating. The theme is eroticism again, not domination. There are currently 24 scenes though the last update was seven months ago. Resolutions are 720x480.
• Mist of Water – I’m not sure how to describe this site, so I’ll just quote their tag line: “Water soaked women, clinging hair, sheer see-through clothes, underwater buoyancy.” That pretty much sums it up. There are five photo shoots and two videos (640x480).
I don’t download photos but it seems that this site could be of interest to those who do. Most scenes offer both videos and photos but like the videos the photos are just average quality. There are some at 1600x2400 but you don’t have to look too hard to find lower than that. They’re available as zips.
So would I recommend this site? Yes, but as long as you know what the site’s weaknesses are. For one, this is really just a hardcore boy/girl site and there’s no shortage of those around. The difference here is obviously that the scenes are shot underwater. If that interests you then you have very few choices and your choices may be as simple as take it or leave it. The biggest flaw in the site is the low resolution videos and photos. This is a site that offers a lot of unique content with some of the hottest stars in the business but their video and photo offerings aren’t up to standard. So the site gets a qualified recommendation. |
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11-10-14 10:48am
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245
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Pornstar Platinum Network
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large network
- 26 model sites
- 1389 videos
- Multiple options for downloading videos
- 1973 photo sets
- Photos available as singles or zips
- Many of the photo sets are large (500+ photos)
- Updates daily
- TBP/PU discount
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Videos play automatically when page loads
- Photos are relatively low quality
- Too many ‘enhanced’ models for my tastes |
Bottom Line: |
Pornstar Platinum Network is a large network of 26 pornstar sites. Several A-list models have sites here, like Amy Brooke, Tegan Summers and Trinity St. Claire. The model sites work great for narrowing your search for scenes and photos with a specific model but the main network gives access to everything. There are currently 1389 videos and 1973 photo sets uploaded across all the sites in the network. The network updates with one upload per day (either a video or a photo set) and these are spread across all the sites.
The network layout is far too rudimentary for its size. There is a search function available and you can sort by individual models through the sub-sites and sort by videos or photos.
The site started in 2009 but the videos uploaded then were pretty low quality. Some are as low as 480x320 and 1000kb/s. That wasn’t good even for 2009. The good news is that the newer videos are a much better quality at 1920x1080 and 10,000kb/s.
The photos aren’t great quality whenever they were posted. Older photos are 1500x1000 and the newer ones are 1600x900. The photos are available as singles or zips and some of the photosets are huge with over 500 photos.
The site supports download managers and download speeds were good at all times. I had no issues with links timing out.
I can’t give a definitive answer as to whether much of the material here is exclusive but I suspect that a lot of it is. I collect a lot of Amy Brooke’s stuff and I didn’t recognize any of the scenes as ones I had already seen.
This is subjective, but I don’t like fake breasts and there seem to be a lot of them on display here. Two of my favorite models, Amy Brooke and Trinity St. Claire, had ‘enhancements’ and spoiled their appearances by looking unnatural.
Another pet peeve of mine is also found here: when you load a video page the video starts playing automatically. That hogs bandwidth and if you forget to turn your speakers down it can be a bit embarrassing. In my opinion, streaming is an option, not something that should be foisted on all users.
Speaking of downloads, there is usually the option of downloading a WMV or MP4 file. My preference is MP4 but I downloaded a few WMV files to compare them. The few I looked at were 1920x1080 but had a very low bitrate of less than 2000kb/s so they looked badly pixilated even on a 24” monitor. My advice is to watch a few to make sure you can live with the lower quality before downloading a bunch of WMV files.
Overall I’m sitting on the fence as to whether I’d recommend this. There are a lot of good things about the site, like its size, regular updates, photo sets and videos, but on the downside the network isn’t well laid out and a lot of the older material is low quality. The deciding factor for me was access to a few specific scenes at the low TBP discount price. If you find yourself in that same situation then you’ll at least go in knowing that the network is less than perfect.
(I should add that one of the sites in the network is called Fukks. It seems to be a stand-alone site that is only affiliated with the main network. It requires entering a username and password, but my main network login wouldn’t work.) |
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09-21-14 09:55am
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246
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New Sensations Network
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large studio site
- Some great DVDs
- Some unique niches
- High production values
- Many older titles available
- Updates daily
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Not a true ‘network’
- Annoying download limit
- Wide variation in video quality
- Only started adding HD files recently
- Many DVDs have missing scenes |
Bottom Line: |
New Sensations falls into the same trap that seems to snare so many studio websites: great porn let down by a just-okay site.
While they market themselves as a network they really aren’t in the true sense of that word. While there are 22 other ‘sites’ in the network those sites are just a repackaging of what is available on the main site. If you go to the main New Sensations site you’ll have access to everything. I don’t see this as a major negative issue because it isn’t that big a deal and it is common with studio sites. I only point it out so no one joins expecting several distinct sites. Think of the ‘sites’ as just a high-level filter.
The site is well laid out with search functions, drop-down menus and tags. I found that the site was easy to navigate and find what I was looking for.
The site currently has around 1100 DVDs with over 5100 scenes so it is hard to argue that you’re not getting a lot of porn for your money. The production values really make most of the DVDs stand out. The lighting, sets, editing and sound are all well done here, even on older DVDs. And regardless of the year the DVD was produced, you’ll find a who’s who of porn stars here.
All the scenes are available in streaming or for download. The downloads are available in Flash, MP4 and WMV. A major flaw with the site is that it has only been since 2013 that they started offering HD (1280 and 1920) so there are currently only about 200 DVDs in HD. To make matters worse, the site opted to use low bitrates so even the HD files don’t look as good as similar sites. When available I downloaded the 1280 files and they’re only 4000kb/s which means they can look blocky at times. Prior to 2013 the MP4 file available was for mobile devices so that leaves WMV as the best option. The older files come in at 640x480 and 2000kb/s. With specs like that they can only look poor by today’s standards, but I won’t complain because some of these are quite old and not available elsewhere. 1024x576 is also a fairly common file size though the bitrates here are low too at 2000.
The Catch-22 with the site is that while I may have been better off downloading the highest resolution available (I usually balance quality and file size) but that would make the download limit even more frustrating. If you are interested though, the best files are the MP4s at 1920x1080 but the bitrate is still low at 4000. They do look better though.
And speaking of download limits, there is one here. A problem with it is that they have created one that is theoretically not that bad but set it up in a way that functions in an annoying way. A member is only allowed to download 6GB of data in an hour and when you exceed that your access is cut off for an hour. Sure, the site can argue that they still give you access to 144GB per day, but given that they offer HD and if you have a fast internet connection you can find yourself cut off after not too long. I should also advise that the message that comes up is incorrect: it states you’re cut off for 12 hours, but it is only one hour. I confirmed that via email. To add to the frustration, you can’t even view the site while you’re in exile. (This applies to a full membership; it may be the full 12 hour lock-out for trial memberships.)
Many of the DVDs are incomplete, which seems really odd for a studio site. The reason I can say this with some authority is that there are many DVDs that only have one or two scenes available, where the store version would have more than that.
The site supports download managers (though they cite these are a reason for imposing a limit).
While the studio covers the typical porn niches, they do have one that is fairly unusual and likely somewhat controversial: incest porn. Don’t shoot the messenger: I’m only pointing out that it exists here. The scenarios in these videos use a stepdaughter/stepfather, stepson/stepmother or step-sibling tryst as the basis for the scene. While I would in no way count myself as a fan of this genre I did find myself drawn to them because the scene set-up was really well done with a sexual tension building for the first few minutes. I’m a big fan of porn scene set-ups and like when there is a sexual tension created, and these scenes do it well. Besides, it is just fantasy and I’m not going to say no to scenes featuring some of my favorite stars.
I’m really on the fence about recommending this site. Like so many other sites they have some great porn on offer but drop the ball in how it gets offered. The download limit is frustrating but is obviously just a short-term frustration while the low bitrates (and resulting lower quality videos) is something that will mar your viewing for years to come. If the site has some stuff you really want then I would recommend it even with the limitations, but if you’re just looking for a site to join you may want to keep looking. |
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06-02-14 04:31pm
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Review
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Double View Casting
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- 93 scenes
- Russian / Eastern European models
- Several download options
- Innovative gimmick to have two views available
- In streaming you can switch between two cameras
- Two separate videos available for download
- Lots of anal
- Part of a small network (5 sites in total) |
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- Slow downloads
- Models names are frequently mixed up
- The male shooting POV needs more practice
- Selecting the “remember me” button on log in doesn’t work
- Hasn’t updated since February 2014
- The two views are slightly out of sync |
Bottom Line: |
I’m a fan of the casting niche and this was one of the few remaining reputable-looking sites that I hadn’t joined. I’m glad I did but if you’re a fan of this niche this is likely one of the weakest sites available in the genre.
To be fair to the site, I think that part of the problem is a language barrier in many of the scenes. Not many of the models speak English well, if at all, and the casting niche relies on a lot of conversation to set the scene up and create some heat. In this case that heat isn’t developed well because of the language barrier. Of more importance though is the fact that the site puts less effort into creating the myth of a casting video. When comparing the scenes here to one of the best, Casting Couch X, for example, language is only part of the issue. A site like CCX puts a lot of effort into creating the feel of a real casting that turns into a porn tryout. DVC doesn’t put that effort in.
The site’s main claim is that it offers a double view of all the scenes. There is a camera being operated by a cameraman and the male talent has a handheld camera that shoots the same scene at the same time in POV. If you use streaming the video plays within the site and there is a narrow band at the top where you have a picture-in-picture of the second camera. Hitting your space bar toggles between the two views. I don’t normally stream but I can see that this might be a good feature for those who do stream. But it might also be an answer to a question that no one ever asked. I’ll let you be the judge of that. A minor glitch is that the two views are slightly out of sync – only by a second or so but enough to notice. The bigger problem lies with the quality of the POV camerawork. I understand that it must be hard to do, but others have mastered the skill and the male talent/POV cameraman here hasn’t.
The models are all Eastern European or Russian and many of them are well-known in the industry. They’re all between 18 and 22 and all are petite and attractive. There aren’t a lot of fake breasts and tattoos. (Maybe those trends aren’t as popular in EE/Russia?) One issue with all sites that use EE/Russian models is that they seem to change their names on a weekly basis. It’s apparent here because the link to the scene will have one name and then when you watch the scene there is text of the model name and that is often different from what is listed on the site.
The site uses a simple layout with 15 medium-sized thumbnails per page that open into a page for the scene. There is no search function and I found that using the model search page didn’t work well but that may be due to the frequent model name changes even within the site.
There are some download options though they are limited and I don’t really understand why these are offered. The scenes are available in “Windows,” “Apple” and “Android” but in some cases all of them are MP4. There is only one file resolution in each type. Older videos have WMV available, sometimes as the only option. For each scene there are two downloads available: the main camera and the POV camera. One significant flaw in downloading is that the download speeds are about one-third of what I usually get. I used a download manager and had no problems with that.
Regardless of what file type is offered they all come in at 1280x720 at 5000kb/s and 29fps. They look crisp and have no pixilation issues.
The site shows 93 scenes but the oldest four aren’t available for streaming. I can’t say for certain that the site is now dead, but it used to update by adding one scene per month but the last upload was in February 2014.
The site is part of a small network of five sites in total. (One of them, Wanted GFs, isn’t worth joining for so avoid a membership if that’s all you want.)
One thing that I listed as a good thing though others will disagree and see it as a negative is that there are a lot of anal scenes on the site. I didn’t count them, but I’d say between two-thirds and three-quarters of the scenes have anal.
One minor glitch that was nevertheless annoying is that while the login page had a box to check to remember your username and password that didn’t work. Also, I couldn’t enter the other sites on the network through the links on the site. My username and password weren’t recognized. I had to do a Google search for the site and enter that way.
The bottom line is that unless you absolutely have to have all the casting scenes you can get your hands on, or if you really want to collect all the scenes you can from a specific model than it’s probably best to pass on this site. It’s well done, the videos look good and they have their double-view gimmick, but other than that the site is just an average porn site that doesn’t stand out from the crowd. |
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05-11-14 07:55am
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Exploited Teens
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large site
- Beautiful models
- Mostly quasi-amateurs
- Some models have gone on to big porn careers
- Supports download managers
- Good download speeds
- Appears to update weekly |
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- Good porn let down by a weak website
- No preview pictures (though many scenes have a short preview video)
- No options for file types or resolutions
- Low resolution for 2014
- No photos |
Bottom Line: |
I’ve often written that for a site to be great there needs to be three things happening: the porn has to be good, the site has to be good and the scenes need to be easily accessible in a way that members can use. This site is a case of only getting one out of three right, and that’s having good porn. But since that’s subjective your opinion might be different. I’m fairly confident that no one will disagree with my objective assessment that the site needs some work.
The genre that the site fits into is the quasi-amateur site where fresh-faced models come to perform a rare scene. The models are all relatively young (18-22), almost all are Caucasian, body types can vary a bit but most of them are petite. Some of the models have gone on to become big porn stars, but most are more obscure than that. While many of the models have other scenes (often on similar sites), most have little exposure if that’s something that you like.
This is a large site that started in 2000. There are currently 570 videos available and it appears that there is a new one added weekly. I say that it ‘appears’ that it updates weekly because I can’t be certain since none of the scenes are dated. All of the scenes follow a formula, which some will take issue with. I’m indifferent to sites that offer formulaic porn as long as the formula works, and in this case it does. The formula is simple: the POV camera pans up a bed to the model and she is introduced and interviewed. There are some poses with clothes, the clothes come off, there is oral on the male cameraman, there is usually (but not always) vaginal sex, and the scene always concludes with the POV cameraman jerking off on the model’s face. I’m no fan of watching a guy jerk off on a woman’s face (the jerking part, I’m fine with facials) but it’s so common in porn now that there’s really no point in complaining.
The cameraman (and presumably the site owner) is good at POV work but not the best I’ve seen. One thing he does right is recognize that the scene isn’t about him so he doesn’t try to upstage the models. Some will complain that he talks too much, but I find that doesn’t detract from the scene and probably helps it by keeping a connection between the performers.
As with many similar site, the main strength is the models who appear. Many are really good looking and worth watching.
One thing that I really like is that the models begin the scene in street clothes. I really prefer this over a sleazy porn outfit. The site made the right choice in this.
Apart from the good porn this site really has little else going for it. The site design is less than simple: it’s outdated. And apart from being outdated, some of the choices the designers made are just bad. For one thing, the site is backwards. When you enter the first page with scenes you’re on the page with the oldest videos. Once you’re on a page you want the only way you can decide if you want to download a scene is from a small thumbnail. If you like a particular body type you may be disappointed with what you download. There is no search function, there are no tags and there are no links if a model has more than one scene on the site.
The downloads themselves are well below industry specs. There are no options for file types or resolutions. WMV is the only type available. The two most common resolutions are 640x480 and 704x396. There are a few at 720x480. Bitrates are 3200kb/s. I’m willing to accept that older scenes won’t be available in better resolutions, but in 2014 these resolutions don’t cut it. At a minimum the scenes should be 1280x720. They don’t look bad, but they still need to improve.
Download managers are allowed and I had no problem with links timing out. Download speeds were the same as I get elsewhere.
When I joined many of the scenes (maybe a year and half of them) provided no model name at all. The site explained this choice as an attempt to reduce piracy since a search for the site name a model name would bring up tub-site links. While this is better than streaming-only or DRM, I found it annoying since I prefer to sort the scenes by model name and if I like the model I might be able to find more her elsewhere. Sometime in the past two weeks the site has reversed this policy and now includes the model’s name on page, though the download still has a generic name. I can live with that now that I know the model’s name and can change the file name.
So would I recommend this site? Yes, with some caveats and reservations. If you like this kind of porn (quasi-amateur, casting style) then it’s worth joining as long as you recognize that the site needs a lot of work and even the newest downloads aren’t up to standards. What baffles me is that the site owner obviously puts a lot of work into shooting the scenes and then drops the ball by having a website that has been past its ‘best before’ date for several years. |
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04-27-14 12:55pm
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249
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Seymore Butts
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Unique porn from a great producer/director/actor
- Some unique female models
- 192 videos from approximately 50 DVDs
- Videos in MP4 format
- Videos look good considering their age
- Offers a full trial
- Bills through a reputable biller
- Supports download managers |
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- Last update was seven months ago
- Not organized by DVD title, though that’s how it was produced
- Site is poorly designed, even for such a small site
- Many of the videos are available elsewhere
- No options for downloading – one format, one size
- No ‘tour’ pages for prospective members |
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I’m a big fan of Seymore Butts’ movies. He was one of the best and most prolific producer/directors in the business for a while and his movies were unique. He offered a true gonzo style that was fun to watch, he focussed heavily on anal sex and ass play, and he had some hot women who worked almost exclusively for/with him. The porn business was better for his contributions.
This is purely speculative, but I don’t think that this site has any actual affiliation with Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. I think this because Glasser seemed to take a lot of pride in his work, and justifiably so, and, excuse the pun, was anal about his work. This was demonstrated in the series about his business titled “Family Business” that aired on Showtime. There is nothing about this site that shows Glasser’s quest for high quality.
The really odd thing about this site is that while SB was all DVD-based porn, the site isn’t arranged by DVD title, it’s arranged by scenes only. There are a dozen scene thumbnails per page with a brief description of the scene but you’ll need to open the link to a scene before you can see what DVD it’s from. And even then the DVD title isn’t a clickable link to the other scenes in the title and there appears to be no way to search or sort by title. Maybe this will annoy only me, since I prefer to put the scenes from a DVD in a folder with the DVD title.
There are currently 192 scenes on the site, though saying ‘currently’ might be misleading as it implies that the site is updating. The last scene uploaded was about seven months ago, so while I can’t say for certain that the site isn’t updating, it sure looks like it isn’t. And with only about one-third of SB titles uploaded it isn’t like they’ve already run out of material.
It appears that the site had a major renovation between the time when RustyJ reviewed it 14 months ago. Rusty reported the downloaded files were in WMV format and were all large. There are no download options offered: there is one link labelled ‘download’ and you take what you’re given. I downloaded 116 scenes and all of them are in MP4 format. While there are a few files that come in slightly over 1 GB, the average file size is about 300-400 MB. The files I downloaded are all 1280x720, 3000 kb/s and 29fps. Those aren’t bad specs for scenes which are at least a decade old and in a lot of cases may be much older than that. Subjectively they look good.
The site itself could also have benefitted from a renovation. While I’m a proponent of keeping things simple, this site might be too simple. The layout is basic with not a lot of options to search. The ‘pornstar’ tab only lists 12 models, to give you an example of how weak the site design is. But with less than 200 scenes offered, the weak site design isn’t a big issue.
Streaming is available, though I didn’t try it, and there appeared to be no streaming options.
I used a download manager to queue scenes for download and had no problems. Download speeds were what I usually get with other sites. I downloaded a lot in a day and never encountered any kind of limit or throttling.
The site offers four membership options: two trials (three and seven day), one month and an annual membership. I wouldn’t normally offer advice here, but I think it is sound advice to say that no one should consider an annual membership given the size of the site and the fact that there’s been nothing added in seven months. I opted for the seven day trial but in hindsight I should have gone for the three day trial instead, but without any kind of a tour available to prospective members I didn’t know what to expect. More advice – learn from my mistake. As Warren Buffet once said, it’s great to learn from your mistakes, but its better learn from other people’s mistakes. The seven day trial was full access and TBP reports that the three day trial is too, but I can’t confirm that.
The site bills through Segpay so you can be assured that your membership will be fairly easy to cancel. One thing I didn’t try so can’t confirm, is whether your access is cut off after you cancel the trial membership.
While SB videos are offered elsewhere, such as Videobox, the file specs here are better, so if you’re a SB fan and looking for some of his stuff, this may be what you’re looking for.
The bottom line is that if you’re a SB fan this can be a good value if you opt for a trial. The downside is that if you’re a SB fan looking to add some titles you don’t have there is no way to see which titles are offered here, and once you are a member there is no way to easily find the titles you’re looking for in the site. The upside is that for such ‘ancient’ porn as this, it’s been encoded in a way that makes it look good despite much of it having been shot on videotape. I’d recommend a trial membership, but make sure you go in with your eyes open. |
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03-08-14 10:38am
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Review
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Teen Core Club
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Stunningly beautiful young, legal models
- Tons of anal (yes, I know this isn’t a pro for all)
- Supports download managers
- Excellent production values |
Cons: |
- No obvious updates
- Very expensive
- Not great value for the price
- Some overlap with other networks
- Each site must be entered separately
- Sites ‘time out’ during use requiring that you follow an emailed link to get back in
- Make your username and password short and easy; you’ll be using it a lot
- No network model search function |
Bottom Line: |
I have mixed feelings about this network. I suspect that my opinion would be a lot more certain, and a lot more positive, if the price weren’t so high. Speaking of price, let me address that first: I see cost as only one part of the value equation. Yes, cost is important, but this isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last time I spend this much. If the site / network offers a lot of great and unique material then I’m much more willing to pay the higher price. Unfortunately, when you add up what $50 gets you here it doesn’t add up to a good value.
While I’d normally take the time to list the network’s sites and what’s available, I won’t do that this time. First, there’s no need since Evernight took the time to do that in his review, and second, because I just don’t have the patience to do that on this network.
The good news here is that this is a network of 27 teen-themed sites. This is a true network in that the sites offer variations on a theme rather than just being a loose collection of scenes that could have just as easily been put on one large site. You’ll find most major porn niches here: oral, anal, gangbang, IR, etc., but keep in mind that all of the sites focus on fresh teen models. The real advantage of this network lies with the models themselves. If you like fresh faces and pert bodies then this network will surprise and delight. Honestly, the quality of the models will almost make a member forget the network’s serious shortcomings.
The models are a who’s who of the Russian and Eastern European legal teen porn biz. Many of the biggest stars are here. Of course, you’ll encounter a familiar problem with these models in that the sites seem to give them different names every day so that makes it harder to follow a model you like. This network doesn’t do you any favors either, because there is no way to select a model and find all her scenes on the network. That seems like something pretty basic that any network would do.
The production values on the scenes are top quality. The lighting, editing and sound all contribute to the high quality scenes.
The newer scenes are available in WMV or MP4 and in a slightly different resolution for each. There are also individual clips available. I downloaded the hi-res MP4s when they were available and those are 1920x1080 at 6,500kb/s and 29fps. They look great on a monitor and 50” TV. When the hi-res wasn’t available I went with the next best which is 960x540 and 3,500, which, obviously don’t look as good.
When I say that the newer scenes are hi-res, that’s a bit of a guess because the scenes aren’t dated. I can’t tell when they started offering HD. But an educated guess is that about half of the videos are in HD.
Update schedules are also a bit of a mystery. I’ve been a member for a week now and I haven’t found an update, but that’s partly my laziness due to another network flaw.
I have no idea who would think this was a good idea, but there is no real ‘home page’ for the network. There is no page where a member can go to see everything on the network including the recent updates. This network is a true collection of 27 sites and when you want to visit a site you’ll need to enter your username/pass and a captcha. Every site. Every fucking time.
There were rumors of daily limits so I went looking for it by downloading a lot and found none. What I did find that periodically I was booted off the network and had to go to email for a link that would allow me back in. Download managers work too.
While I expected the scenes to be exclusive for this price, I did find some overlap with other sites. Not much, but then those are just the scenes I recognized.
One major reason I joined is a major reason why many others may not join: there are tons of anal scenes here. Anyone who doesn’t like anal will justifiably think that the whole network should be called Anal Teen Core Club. There are sites that are anal-themed where every scene is anal, and there are sites that aren’t anal-themed where only half are anal. You’ve been warned.
So what about value? I don’t think it’s here. While you get access to about 1700 scenes, many of which are HD, and most of which feature stunningly beautiful models, you have to suffer through some poorly designed sites to get those. Some may disagree, but I think a reasonable comparison is with Teen Mega World (where some duplicate scenes are located). TMW has 3300+ scenes for a TBP price of $20 while TCC has 1700 scene for $50. The last time I spent that much for a site was because the site offered some unique porn that was expensive to make and had a limited audience. TCC makes great porn, but it isn’t unique and it isn’t more expensive to make than comparable sites so the price just isn’t worth it. I’m glad I joined because it is exactly the kind of porn I like, but with the lack of information on updates and the high price I won’t be back. |
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02-13-14 05:24pm
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