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Streamate.com
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85.0
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Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Lots of exclusive US hosts. Popular among US porn stars.
- 100s of the usual non-US hosts that may be found at other sites.
- Site is geared at facilitating chats: little more than chats is offered.
- You may mute other chat users and send your requests only to host.
- Most hosts I tried offer sound even in free chat.
- Pay chats may be private (group) or exclusive (1 on 1, full privacy).
- SMS alerts at no additional cost. Also, favorites RSS feeds.
- Negative reviews of performers are not censored.
- Not charged for peeking into a private show for a few seconds.
- Excellent log of money spent: in-site and by email.
- Billed by epoch. No regional pricing.
- No silly contests among members or among hosts.
- Additional membership to access weekly show plus its archive.
- Additional fan clubs (“Goldclubs”) for HQ videos and photos of a host. |
| Cons: |
- Prices higher than at other sites (both US and non-exclusive).
- Non-exclusive hosts have higher cam quality at other sites.
- No info on how much time you’ve been in current private.
- No alert when you are nearing daily limit while in private.
- Sorting options are easily lost while browsing.
- Almost no means to share experiences with fellow members.
- Hosts rarely honor the schedule on their profile.
- Sample photos of hosts are at very low quality.
- On a host’s profile, suggested similar hosts are never online.
- Occasionally, you find recorded shows passing as live ones.
- No clear taxonomy of online states: must enter host profile and guess a little to see how much “online” she is (see separate comment on the subject).
- Too many clone sites. What’s the difference with Cammodels? |
| Bottom Line: |
While some cam sites resemble a police state obsessed with milking every bit of interaction between you and the hosts and others are an anarchy full of amateur designs, emoticons and explicit sex in free chat, Streamate.com makes some sort of compromise.
You won’t see anything below the waist in free chat and contacting a host outside the site isn’t encouraged but they don’t charge you for simple things like sending an in-site message to a host and many hosts have twitter accounts. Hosts who have a site of their own often plug it while in free chat or even in their profile page.
I have a love-hate relationship with the site’s interface. On every chat window, there’s a button that mutes all other users and has your words only seen by hosts. Good both for blocking the peanut gallery and for privacy although the icon isn’t exactly easy to understand. Also, you don’t need to leave free chat to check host’s prices. On the other hand I found many issues in listings. I never manage to keep hosts sorted the way I’d like and I feel the fact that a host appears as “online” regardless of “how much online” she really is deserved a comment of its own here.
This site, and mainly its clone site Cammodels, are currently very popular among US porn stars. One of the reasons could be that Streamate offers a chat widget that may be embedded at the members area of a site and host member chats accessible at the same time via Streamate. It’s not unusual to find 10-15 fairly well known stars online at a given time, even at Europe-friendly hours.
Regarding private chats, they have a great log of all your past activities in the last 3 months: minutes and seconds spent with each host and on which day. Unfortunately, you don’t get much info while in private. Not knowing how much time you’ve been in your current private session is not unusual at other sites but they should at least tell you that you are about to hit your daily limit so you may properly end the session.
I find confusing the overabundance of clone sites that work the exact same way. US porn stars and hosts always post links to Cammodels, not Streamate.com. I would suggest anyone interested to join through Streamate.com and not a clone because Streamate.com offers registered users a preview of a host’s free chat when you place your mouse over her picture on a listing. None of the clone sites seems to offer it. |
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02-27-11 10:36am
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The Mosh Room
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90.0
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Was a member approx. 6 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Official site of Russian-born US-resident alt model Mosh.
- No tattoos, nipples pierced, hair bleached white.
- 350+ photo sets. 90% at 1200x800px. 40 images per set.
- Sets have info on photographer, designer, make up artist, venue, ...
- Lots of unusual poses. More artistic than erotic
- Latex, vintage stockings and clothing, high heels.
- 40 videos. 50% at 640x480, 25% at 320x240, 25% at 720x400 or higher.
- Lots of information on the model's live and career.
- Modeling tips section. Infrequent diary with pictures.
- 6-8 new photo sets per month.
- ccbill. No regional pricing. |
| Cons: |
- Few videos and at very low resolution.
- No zip files. Photos open in a page of their own.
- Sets are only grouped by year of release. No categories.
- Content engine needs a makeover.
- Smallish pictures.
- Interaction limited to email. No member chats, phased out forum.
- Site is somewhat slow. Downloading and browsing.
- Hard to read the texts: center justified and tiny font. |
| Bottom Line: |
I believe there is a big gap between alt modeling and my tastes. Latex fetish, stockings, garters, vintage clothes, burlesque or pin up style are not my thing. The Mosh Room is the solo site of an alt model that has lots of things that are not my cup of tea and, yet, I liked this site quite a lot and I’d recommend anyone to at least take a look at the free tour.
The alt adjective doesn’t come from her body modifications: she has a very unique look but no tattoos at all and just some discrete nipple and ear piercings. She does have extremely pale skin and hair bleached white. I guess the alt adjective comes from a mix of her looks, her taste in style (pin up, vintage stockings, latex, extremely high heels) and the unusual, yet jawdropping, poses she bends herself into for pictures.
According to the very detailed about me section, Mosh trained as a gymnast since childhood. Saying merely that she is flexible would be a huge understatement. She has a perfect control of her body: every pose is different but every pose is a winner. For instance, I'm in awe of how she uses her hands, how she manages to bring something more to already extraordinary poses by the way her hands are placed and tensed. It’s difficult to put in words the uniqueness of the end results.
The photos come from many different photographers but, even though, I got the feeling that she has a lot to say on how she gets shot so all sets end up having some sort of “Mosh style”. Unfortunately, the 350+ photo sets are dumped into a single huge listing sorted by release date. Apart from adding listings for categories (latex, nude, stockings, ...) it would make a lot of sense to group or, at least, make sets searchable by the metadata that is shown when you open them: photographer, garments designer and so on.
The site has much more text pages than the usual solo site: tips, diaries, biography, faqs but interaction seems to be limited to email. She periodically posts publicly replies to emails she gets, specially when it’s other models asking for advice. Looks like there were some webcam chats at some point and also a forum of some sorts but nothing seem to be going on in that direction currently. |
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06-04-12 02:44pm
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Review
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The Real Me
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79.0
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Was a member approx. 4 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Emphasis on side aspects of a shoot (although a bit too much so it's also a con).
-Good photography by a team that also works for Twistys or Babelicious.
-Cheap full access trial membership.
-Good site design, easy to navigate.
-Well known US adult models.
-Good way to see the person behind the adult model.
-Every model has 3 videos: teasing/masturbation (depends on model), BTS, interview.
-WMV format, 50% at 640x480 (1500kbps), 50% at 400x300 (1200kbps). 10 minutes long on average.
-Also 3 photo galleries: 1. teasing/masturbation (depends), 2. BTS, 3. candids (real life pictures).
-Picture count: 1. 150 (1200x900), 2. 50 (1200x900) 3. 20 (varies).
-Zip files available (although they also include the thumbnails !?). |
| Cons: |
-Site is no longer updating and is for sale.
-Too few models.
-Too much emphasis on the side aspects of a shoot. A bit of BTS is welcome but so much...
-Interview questions are generic and the same for all models (allegedly submitted by site members).
-Only one "action" set per girl (one photo gallery, one video).
-Too many pictures in the sets are promotional ones (holding signs or on The Real Me outfits).
-"Candids" are a joke: same photos are likely to be found without blurred faces at the models' myspace profiles.
-There's an embedded cam network; you will unintentionally sign up by just clicking on a picture.
-Cam network has no membership fees but periodically spams you with new performers. |
| Bottom Line: |
Since this site is almost certainly defunct, I encourage those curious about it to go for the trial membership and grab the content since it could be taken down at any time. No need to stay further since no updates seem to be coming. If you're really into this type of content, I encourage to try Danni.com's "Up Close & Personal with ..." series with their Danni girl of the month.
The interview part reminds a lot of the ones at Babelicious: most of the questions are repeated and the production team is also the same so it brings a certain sense of déja vu. The BTS follows the model while she's getting ready for the shoot; picking clothes, makeup, etc. Both are interesting and very rarely seen. All models are great looking but getting a glimpse of the personality can make you grow fonder of her; Karlie Montana is perhaps the best example for me. I won't say names, but it can happen the exact opposite: some model may have the looks but her personality sucks.
Regarding the sets, they have a certain flare of Twistys or Babelicious. Softcore models will just tease while hardcore ones will masturbate. The end result is more than OK but it feels short having only one set per model.
For completists, here's the full list of models: Andie Valentino, Carli Banks (2 sets), Erika Jordan, Franchezca Valentina (photos only), Georgia Jones, Jayme Langford, Karlie Montana, Lia 19, Luana Lani, Marlie Moore, Renee Perez, Shay Laren, Tiffany Brookes and Zoe Britton. |
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01-06-09 10:47am
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Tory Lane XXX
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68.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-US porn star Tory Lane.
-30 DVD scenes from Diabolic, Zero Tolerance or 3rd Degree. Intense Tory Lane performances. Low video resolution.
-Some exclusive video content. Most of it released back in 2005:
--14 amateur clips: solo, blowjob and some regular sex with husband. Badly lit POV (2 night vision). Hotel rooms; a couple of outdoors.
--1h45 (7 parts) of a 5 girl orgy (lots of behind the scenes, some fetish acts). Could come from DVD.
--4 30s clips of Tory Lane at strip club backstage.
-Most photos taken while filming DVD scenes. Title of the movie they come from.
-Gallery release date stated. Last updates from Oct-2007. Picture count: average 100 but varies a lot (from 5 to 290).
--Galleries from DVD movies: 12 boy-girl, 10 group sex, 9 girl-girl, 28 solo.
--Exclusive galleries: 13 solo related to 4 of the exclusive clips. 5 galleries feature dancing (on stage and behind).
--13 galleries from Matrix HD (1024x680). 9 solo, 2 boy-girl, 2 girl-girl. |
| Cons: |
-Allegedly official site but no interaction possible.
-Most movies have no thumbnail preview or have only the DVD cover as a preview.
-Galleries and movie list have links to buy the movie, but it links to the homepage of the store instead of the movie itself.
-9 new videos have been added in 2008. 4 come from Matrix HD (released there back in 2007), 5 are scenes from DVDs released in 2006-2007.
-Site design is extremely plain. I prefer simple designs but this site is quite unpleasant to use.
-DVD scenes resolution: 50% are 320x240 (370 kbps) but some are higher, up to 640x480 (1500kbps).
-Exclusive videos resolution: 320x240 (370 kbps) 10 minutes.
-Photo resolution: a few 1300x900; most 900x600.
-No zipfiles.
-Site was extremely slow (occasional database errors) on the second day of trial membership. Although it maxed out my connection on the first day.
-Some low-quality extra content (photo galleries from porn stars retired 10 years ago, HD video feeds of the same porn stars, etc.). |
| Bottom Line: |
For Tory Lane completists, the exclusive videos may be of interest but they are old, low resolution and quite repetitive. Watching old home made sex tapes of someone who has done every sex act ever imagined in over 300 porn movies might have some appeal to someone.
Most photos and movies come from releases by three studios: Diabolic, Zero Tolerance On Demand and 3rd Degree (Third Movies). They have their own websites so the content perhaps can also be found there. According to reviews, at least Zero Tolerance and 3rd Degree are accessible with a single membership. Maybe the resolution is better over there.
The scenes are smoking hot sex but all the exclusive and non-exclusive video content doesn't fill a single blank DVD disk. This should give you an idea of the low resolution.
Site would benefit from a face-lift. And zipfiles. And higher video resolutions. Currently, it looks like it was made in a hurry to justify the free tour.
I don't expect any future exclusive updates or Tory Lane ever filling in site members on her future schedule or news around her career. There are empty schedule and news sections.
Most recent non-exclusive updates were purchased sets and videos from Matrix HD, shot about a year ago. According to IAFD, there are a couple of scenes for Diabolic released in 2007 and 2008 which weren't available here yet. Possibly these and any from the other studios will eventually show up here in the future. |
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06-24-08 11:18am
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Review
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Valentina Vaughn
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66.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Official website of Valentina Vaughn, Penthouse Pet on June 2005.
-Beautiful exotic looking professional model.
-No tattoos but a small belly-button piercing.
-75 picture galleries, average 40 pictures each.
-Half of the galleries seem exclusive.
-Galleries are artistic nude or softcore with occasional spreading and mild fingering.
-Some non-nude sets.
-22 videos. Mainly solo artistic nude / softcore or taken during a photo shoot.
-Access to Camz (Private Camz) webcam feeds.
-Model can be contacted via website form.
-Monthly updated diary.
-Free tour lists latest updates. |
| Cons: |
-No zip files.
-Image galleries are flash based. Despite this, some allow 1 by 1 image saving.
-Galleries often resize or rotate images a few degrees, which produces pixellation.
-Image original size is small: 85% are 800x550 or less.
-No option for saving videos: they play in browser.
-Videos are quite low resolution: 90% are 320x240 800kbps 4 minutes long.
-Videos are in one format only. Most are quicktime, with a few wmv.
-Probably very few exclusive videos. Most have Marquis Models watermarks.
-Most videos are a couple years old, with watermarks dating back to 2005-2006.
-Music is the only audio during all the videos.
-No webcam shows by Valentina Vaughn ever.
-Exclusive content seems to be shot mainly in hotel rooms. |
| Bottom Line: |
The model has the looks, knows how to pose and the photos are taken by top photographers. Watching low-resolution versions of good pictures on a cumbersome flash interface makes the experience less than enjoyable. It might be acceptable in a free portfolio site but not when you have typed your credit card info. Flash based galleries nowadays in an adult pay site are hard to justify. I used to think they were an annoying trend that common sense had forced to disappear.
During the last few months, updates consisted mainly of girlfriend sets. Some of them had Valentina Vaughn plus another model but most were solo sets by other models. I believe half of the galleries could be exclusive but, according to watermarks, the other half should be also available at Digital Desire, Misha Online, Marquis Models, Ken Marcus, Penthouse or Juliland (taken by Richard Avery). Non-exclusive videos have watermarks of Marquis Models (almost half), Juliland, Digital Desire, Foot Factory, 24 Main Street. I'd say there are perhaps 3-4 exclusive videos only which are mainly artistic posing.
According to the update log, the site was relaunched in December 2007 but it still has in construction links 9 months later. There's no information on what's the empty "wish list" for or a schedule of cam shows. What's more, every page has a huge banner ad that takes you to abibids.com auction site to see the "new sexy items I'm auctioning off today" but the model seems to have had no listing there in the last 6 months; there's also a non-active niteflirt button (pay-per-minute phone chats) although Valentina Vaughn doesn't appear listed there either. The diary was quite cryptic too; it looked like it was written for life-long friends and not for fans wanting to know what the model was up to.
Go for the trial membership if you like the model and want to sample her work for other sites and some exclusive artistic pictorials. Unless the site gets a serious workout and updates start coming more often, staying for a month like I did is not worth it. |
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09-28-08 10:33am
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VideoBox
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92.0
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Was a member approx. 4 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Will reach 6,000 DVDs next week.
-5 new DVDs every single day.
-Simple, informative, easy to use website.
-Useful personalization: favorites, custom lists, ratings.
-Great downloads: no limit, top speed, links are valid for weeks.
-Easily create custom clips from any scene.
-Various resolutions. Max: 720x480, around 4000kbps.
-Great streaming: trend-setting flash player with thumbnails.
-No watermarks on videos (except for some studios).
-Free tour shows all the available update info.
-Good percentage of fairly recent releases.
-Great series locator.
-No need to login every time.
-ccbill. TBP discount. |
| Cons: |
-Regional pricing.
-No divx video option. Only WMV.
-Weak star naming: missing or partial names abound.
-Star list doesn't list all available performers.
-Does not tell apart stars with same name (Lucy Lee, Cherokee).
-Categorization is too broad: only 40 possible keywords.
-No info on directors or male performers.
-Movie production date is not listed.
-Some repeated scenes: original movie and compilation.
-User comments rarely bring anything new.
-Transsexual or hentai DVDs released as regular updates. |
| Bottom Line: |
I wasn't aware that VideoBox existed a year ago when I came across Porn Users. At that time, I believe it was the top 1 site among PUs but its popularity has recently been dwindling. This is the only DVD site I've ever joined but I believe they do lots of things right. Every PU should join VideoBox at least once.
I've got basically one con: VideoBox metadata is crappy. Google wouldn't be so successful if they indexed the whole Internet but you could only enter a limited set of keywords to find documents or if they left out half the words when indexing. VideoBox should be looking into this because some competitors have also realized that VideoBox metadata and search engine is its weakest asset.
Despite this fact, VideoBox was close to a dream come true for me. During the last couple weeks I decided to look for scenes where the model kept the panties on until the end. Unfortunately, Fetish was the only somewhat useful keyword among the 40 categories. Panties or Clothes keywords would certainly have been welcome because Fetish gave me lots of BDSM which wasn't exactly what I was looking for.
I was forced to browse through the whole collection picking titles here and there that looked promising and using the 6 thumbnails or the streaming option to see if a scene fit the profile. Jumping to other DVDs in the series was easy but director info would have for sure been useful. I eventually came across Intense Industries studio which had lots of them.
I'm no longer a member but still visit VideoBox on a weekly basis. Their free tour works almost exactly like the members area except for the video download and streaming options. I just browse the recent DVDs in my still ongoing quest. Sooner or later, I'll join back. |
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03-07-09 10:21am
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XOXO Leah
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72.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Good-looking web-only US softcore model.
-All-natural, zero tattoos, zero piercings.
-Exclusive content. Model cannot be found anywhere else.
-Some good photos, as long as you are OK with lots of airbrushing.
-I liked the choice of outfits.
-Good interaction with the model.
-Model ends up usually fully nude. Softcore posing.
Current Weekly Update Rate:
-1 photo gallery.
-2 videos from the gallery: 1 BTS, 1 camera tease (10 min each).
-1 short diary entry. Diary entries are dated.
-1 hour webcam chat. Full recorded chat is also released. |
| Cons: |
-The site has lots of little navigation annoyances.
-Flashy tour but extremely plain design inside.
-Photography style is always the same.
-Photos are very repetitive: few different poses.
-Videos are too slow paced; this makes them quite boring.
-Model speaks very rarely.
-Model isn't very skilled at posing (she's barely 19, though).
-Bad lighting. Content can be too dark or have strange shadows.
-Weird rebilling options: 1-month is the least expensive per month. |
| Bottom Line: |
This site has a great looking all-natural model, a good update schedule and some decent content but also a plethora of little drawbacks that eventually left me with a sense of missed opportunity. Maybe the creators should subscribe to other sites and see how things are done.
I used to think Mac and Bumble (known for airbushing their photos a lot) was the pinnacle of glamour photography so this site's extensive airbrushing isn't a great issue for me. Some of the photos are very worth watching but they are so repetitive that I often came back to photo 4 or 5 before I realised I'd already seen the whole gallery and I'd returned to the start. There's also too much cropping: some limb is often left out of the photo and there are way too much photos of the torso only (boobs and panties, no face). The photos are somewhat small. Ironically, the webmaster started a poll four months ago asking if people would like 1800x1200 photos; everyone answered yes but you still get 1000x670.
Having a 10 minutes behind-the-scenes video and 10 minutes more of camera teasing for each set is a great idea. The trouble is that both videos are extremely slow paced and pretty much indistinguishable except for where the model is looking at: photo camera or video camera. Poses can be sustained for a whole minute except for slight head movements or hair rearrangements, you get long sustained zooms to a body part while the model doesn't move at all, the same music clips over and over in every video even when the model can be seen speaking directly to the camera (no voice can be heard). With a few exceptions, the videos are very unsexy.
Regarding the chats, I haven't attended any (Thursdays, 8PM CST) but I've browsed several of the recorded ones. It's nice to have 1 hour long weekly chats and also have the full recording released a couple of weeks later. Looks like she often wears some costume (nurse, maid, etc) which she gradually takes off. The trouble is that she doesn't speak at all despite the feed has audio. Watching an hour long of video of a hot girl typing and, occasionally standing up to do some striptease isn't worth it. It's probably different if you catch it live but the no-talk is a clear minus anyway. Is her voice so unsexy? Some editing and some more talking would be welcome for the recorded ones.
She's very active in the forum (2-3 posts per day) and is also reachable by email or PM in the forum. Together with the chats and the (somewhat short and generic) weekly diary entries makes for very good interaction. The webmaster is also reachable in the forum and complaints are listened to. |
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08-16-08 01:32pm
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58
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Zeina Heart
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73.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Official site of French-Canadian porn star Zeina Heart.
-Exotic, petite, always smiling, all natural, zero tattoos, zero piercings.
-87 photo sets. 60% 1200x800; 40% 800x600. 100 photos per set.
-90% of sets are solo: mostly posing, some spread and toy masturbation.
-Many outdoors sets in natural scenarios.
-Production quality (outfits, settings) improves as sets get more recent.
-35 videos. 80% 480x360 1000kbps; 20% 640x360 1500kbps.
-50% of videos are boy-girl; 35%, solo masturbation; 15%, girl-girl.
-BTS content. 27 photo sets and 20 videos.
-Her anal scene from Erik Everhard's movie "Canadian Beaver 1". |
| Cons: |
-Zeina Heart seems to not be involved with the site any more.
-Content is not dated but I'm certain last regular updates were in 12/2007.
-Only 3 outdoors solo photo galleries in 7/2008.
-Images are somewhat small. No zip files for pictures.
-Amateurish photos. Many low-key settings (drapes hanging in the background).
-Some content may not be exclusive (big opaque watermarks on some photos).
-Few boy-girl photo sets (3 are screen captures) and even fewer girl-girl.
-75% of videos are only available split in parts.
-Most videos are not exclusive (other sites' watermarks or movie titles).
-Some of the video dialogs are in French.
-Confusing angel and demon site skin: same content in both looks.
-No access to other sites from the same company.
-Diary section gets a file not found error.
-No way to contact webmaster. |
| Bottom Line: |
I had never seen much content of this model apart from promos but I've always liked her looks and I'm pretty certain I had browsed the free section of the site in the past; I remember having noticed the two site skins (angel and demon) and realized it was just a weird marketing trick: you got the same content whatever option you chose. I was happy when I noticed Zeina Heart's comeback to reality sites and DVDs last year and I eventually joined the site hoping it would still be fresh although it was highly unlikely: the free tour hadn't changed for a couple years and there were no recent promo galleries on the net.
At some point around 2006 this site may have been worth staying for a while. The Best Porn site facts from 02-02-06 list it as having a diary and forum; there were probably also several webcam shows since some of them are available for download. That's called good interaction in my book. But in 01/2009 they were all gone: no interaction whatsoever and you are just left with the content they produced back in the day.
Pictures seem to be mostly exclusive but they are pretty amateur looking. Outdoors ones are OK but indoor ones are not shot at the usual high-end mansions but badly lit studios with drapes as background at most. Zeina Heart looks great nonetheless but having seen great pictures of hers at other sites left me with a feeling of missed opportunity. The same goes for exclusive videos, which are mostly solo too. The boy-girl ones mostly come from movies and other sites; several scenes (including a rare anal) with Erik Everhard and Steve Holmes from "Canadian Beaver 1" or videos with watermarks from Hand Job Auditions, Camel Toe Auditions and Teenage Decadence.
Maybe Zeina Heart's comeback will get her once again involved with the site. In the meantime, I'd only recommend it to fans of hers. There's a lot of content of hers not available anywhere else and you can still catch a glimpse of her personality through the abundant BTS content. |
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02-28-09 10:08am
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Zero Tolerance On Demand
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89.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Official site of US porn studio Zero Tolerance.
-Top US porn stars at their best and in HD.
-Exclusive content not available anywhere else.
-One new HD DVD per week (5 new scenes weekly).
-Released here as soon as physical DVD hits the street.
-313 DVDs (92 in HD) yielding 2335 scenes (617 in HD).
-MP4 Resolutions: 1080p, 720p, 360p. Plus WMV or xVid at 540p.
-Photo galleries for most of the scenes.
-Membership to Black Ice Pass and Third Movies included.
-Access to 750 DVDs counting those on these other two sites.
-Fast, resumable, hassle-free downloads.
-Free tour works exactly like members area (same info).
-Thought-out powerful search engine.
-Segpay. No regional pricing, no problem canceling. |
| Cons: |
-HD files are big by nature: easily, 1 Gb even for 720p.
-Non-HD scenes pale in comparison with HD ones.
-Not all bonus scenes from DVDs are available.
-Some scenes without pictures, including some DVD cover ones.
-Must login again at Black Ice Pass and Third Movies.
-Login through CAPTCHA every time.
-Download images 900x600. Resolution lower than 720p video!
-DVD covers available but low resolution (506x350).
-Wrong scene info when physical DVD hasn't same scene order.
-Metadata is not perfect (no director or male performer info).
-Streaming is a bit too simple: no key frame thumbnails.
-Zero interaction: no message board, no scene comments, ...
-Support pages still focus on DRM but there's currently no DRM. |
| Bottom Line: |
I was willing to try some HD and this site seemed the place to start: top US stars, a fairly large collection, decent price and no download limits. I really liked Zero Tolerance On Demand and its twin sites Black Ice Pass and Third Movies. I think other porn studios should follow their example: offer online all the content from their DVDs as soon as they are released physically, couple it with a powerful search engine and a plethora of download options at good speeds. It's a great idea to make the free tour work exactly like the members area; only sites who deliver are able to do that.
Search engine is very well thought-out and it gets you some powerful searches. You can, for instance, easily search for scenes that don't have a particular act you don't give a damn but have those two you wish all scenes had. I only missed that HD was not a keyword once you were in a particular star: you have to rely on a small HD logo on each scene to tell them apart. Metadata, though, is not perfect; for instance, even though you get access to other DVDs in the series, you don't get any info on who the director is so, if you want to find more scenes shot by the same guy, you have to rely on the always handy iafd.
Except for some color scheme and design differences, all three sites work exactly the same. The main drawback is probably that each studio still has its own site and search engine. When willing to watch all the scenes from a particular model, you have to go through three different searches and, likely, three different logins. Perhaps Black Ice Pass all-black scenes are a niche on their own but the differences between Third Movies and Zero Tolerance On Demand are almost non-existent. Maybe Third Movies is a little less hardcore? Zero Tolerance On Demand has a 1% lower percentage of MILFs?
Apart from integrating all three sites once and for all, another thing they should look into are the photo galleries. I'd like to know who shoots their DVD covers and movie stills because they do a terrific job: girls look as good as in any glamour photography site. It's a pity that they end up offering the pictures only at 900x600 and there's no way to get a resolution higher than 506x350 for the DVD covers. It doesn't make much sense to have those pictures at such resolutions when the video scene frame is almost twice as big.
I had no problem opening files in VLC media player but it was funny to see that their support pages don't offer any help regarding how to play HD files and they go to great lengths explaining the intricacies of DRM while there doesn't seem to be any DRM files and, it seems, they went DRM-free several years ago.
If you are curious, I'd strongly recommend that you give the site a try even if it's only the free section. If you are into US stars you'll sure find something that will catch your eye. |
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11-08-09 05:24am
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