Site is no longer affiliated with Met-art, so don't bother submitting a support ticket there. The site is now closed with absolutely no notice and merged with barelylegal.com which is also closed and rolled into hustlerunlimited.com. Login doesn't work and no replies from support. They just stole their subscribers money and ran.
Site gets by now on sparse updates that seem to be old material often in SD. MetArt has apparently taken over management of the site or at least MetArt is now responding to support requests. Rather they are most often replying without responding or resolving. Maybe they will get their issues ironed out but for now I would avoid. If everything works Ok you might find a few items you like but if you have support concerns, good luck.
I joined this site today and am really disappointed. Videos while in the mp4 format are extremely small, most common is 360 with some being even smaller! Even 95% of the newer ones 2015-2018 are only 480! 720 0r 1080 is extremely rare! Click full screen on this crap and it's so blurry that it is completely unwatchable. What a rip-off!
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- 12,000+ scenes
- Videos update daily
- Photos available
- Choices in scene resolutions
- Supports download managers
- TBP Discount
Cons:
- Illogical site design
- Decent porn let down by a poor site
- Difficult to sort scenes
- Updates are often older scene
- Photos haven’t updated in months
- Scenes start streaming automatically
- Hustler scenes are available on other websites
Bottom Line:
Warren Buffett is reported to have once said that it is good to learn from your mistakes but it is better to learn from other people’s mistakes. Sadly, I’m more Homer Simpson than Warren Buffet, so if I could title this review it would simply be called “D’oh!”
I recently had an email offer to join Hustler that didn’t make a lot of sense to refuse. I didn’t bother to do my usual due diligence and read the TBP/PU reviews. Had I done that I’d have seen that the overwhelming opinion was negative and the most recent review was from one of the best reviewers here, exotics4me, and he scored the site low. But I figured what could I lose by signing up? It turns out I lost $5 that I could have used towards a membership at a good site.
I’d say that Hustler is badly organized but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate as that implies that there is at least some attempt at organization. I don’t get that sense here. Let me give an example…
Hustler has been around for a long time and one of their showcase series is Barely Legal. Like it or not, any porn collector knows of it. So if you ran the Hustler website wouldn’t you want to showcase that? Apparently not. Barely Legal is exactly the kind of porn I look for and if there was a way to separate those scenes I wasn’t able to find it. On many occasions I opened a scene that had no obvious connection to the BL series and it was only on playing it that it was identified as such.
Speaking of playing the scenes, be warned that the scenes start streaming immediately when you open the page. I really wish sites wouldn’t do this.
Scene resolutions are all over the map and even the usual indicator of upload date has no real bearing on this. I encountered scenes that were relatively new (based on the model) that were available as high as 480p only. Many scenes are available at 720p but there is no way to sort by resolution. Some scenes, but not many, also offer 1080p. These look good but are few and far between and finding them is a fishing expedition.
Trying to sort by models isn't a big help either. When using the model index many don’t have a thumbnail photo – even though they are well-known stars. Sometimes the same model will be listed side-by-side with a different alias or spelling, as is the case for the late Amber Rayne who is also listed as Amber Rain... on the same page.
Some of the scenes are so badly edited for the site that they start as the sex is starting, though on the DVD there would be something before that. For example, in one Angel Smalls scene there is a dick in her within one second of the scene starting. Clearly this is just editing and all the set-up and foreplay has been removed.
Hustler is primarily a DVD company and while some of the videos can be identified by the DVD there is no way that I could find to sort the scenes by DVD title. If there is a title that indicates something you like, you may or may not find other scenes from the DVD. Sometimes those scenes are at the bottom of related scenes but sometimes they aren't.
The site does have a couple of things going for it. For one; it’s huge. There are currently over 12,000 scenes available with a new scene being added daily. There are sub-sites but I suspect that those are rolled into the overall count. (But that isn't exactly clear.) I should be clear that while a scene is added daily, that doesn’t mean the scene is new. A recent update featured a model who retired five years ago.
The other great thing about the site is that it offers all issues of the famous Hustler magazine from 2008 to the present. These are available on an easy-to-use interface that allows users to flip through the pages. I know this is nit-picking, but magazines aren't the draw they once were. As someone who discovered porn as an early-teen though Playboy, Penthouse and then Hustler, I would have relished the opportunity to see editions from the late-70s to the early-80s.
Unfortunately the positives of this site aren't many, so I’ll start back in with the negatives. I collect and catalogue scenes by the model in them and I was disappointed that a lot of scenes here simply don’t have any credits. While it isn't entirely accurate to say that these are non-exclusive scene (since they are Hustler scenes on the Hustler site) many of these are available elsewhere.
The bottom line for me is that this is a site that has some good porn that is seriously undermined by the site itself. In some reviews even when the site isn't well laid out I still feel comfortable recommending it to someone who is looking for a specific niche that the site fills. But in this case I can’t do that because the site is so poorly laid out that finding something specific would be more about luck than organization. I rarely give poor scores and reviews, but this site deserves it. Even with a TBP discount this site isn't a good value.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Hustler, in my mind, the greatest name in hardcore porn.
- Huge site/network. I've seen some content as far back as the 80s, including the legendary, "Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio".
- Hustler magazine pictorials to look at or download.
- Updates once or twice per week with a full DVD, it varies, so there's no way to put a set number on it or set frequency.
- Beaver Hunt category! My favorite section of Hustler magazine.
- Good download speeds, roughly 70% of my max speed.
Cons:
- A couple of my pros are actually not what they claim to be. Trust me, I'll go into in the BL.
- Video quality is below average at best.
- I once rated this "network" an 80, in 2007, here on PU. My average score is an 85.
- I thought, based on many of the professional reviews, that Hustler had got their site together and improved it. I thought wrong and wonder why it scored so highly in professional reviews. Not looking at that can of worms with a can opener.
- It's not a network. It's a DVD site that puts content, based on category, into a separate category that they so happen to call a different site.
Bottom Line:
Back when I first discovered porn it was a random VHS tape belonging to my uncle. I later found a whole stack of Playboy magazines under his bed. I'm sure I liked them and thought I had found a gold mine. Then, one day, I found a Hustler magazine in his room. I used multiple loud adjectives as I looked through the pages. So much nakedness, girls with fingers stuck in places, it was far greater than anything I had seen before.
When I turned 18, I had been psyching myself up to go to the local gas station and buy a brand new copy of Hustler. It then became a monthly habit. The rush, as I've told a few times, was maybe even greater than the magazine. This made Hustler my absolute favorite name in hardcore porn. And like most men who bought Playboy or Penthouse, I also read every story in Hustler. The jokes were tasteless and hilarious. Then there was the "Beaver Hunt" section of the magazine. It had used-submitted photos in it. Hustler would then pick the best one and give them a money prize. It had the dirty stories in it. Some seriously interesting political stories.
So, a few weeks ago, I thought I would join Hustler's website. It had been 9 years since I joined it. From everything I've read it's improved greatly since then. I joined ... and reality hit, buyer's remorse hit and my first "bad" review in a long time is now being posted.
First, in the categories is "Beaver Hunt". I click on it, it's DVDs from the Barely Legal series. It's not a bad series. It's also not "Beaver Hunt". I was honestly expecting user-submitted photos.
I then clicked on "Magz". I'm going to get to view all the digital issues of all Hustler magazines, right? Wrong. They only go back to 2007. Now hell, if you can put 1986's Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio DVD on here, you can damn sure put the old magazines on here. It gets worse. No Beaver Hunt in the magazines that I could access. No joke section. No articles. Instead, a handful of pictorials from each magazine with 12-15 photos from each pictorial.
I cleared my head and decided to make the most out of what was quickly becoming the most disappointing porn site I have joined in years. I downloaded a few videos featuring models I like. They were okay, but were a bit blurry/fuzzy. Now these are newer models (Nicole Aniston, Veronica Rodriguez), maybe not "newer", but newer than Vanessa Del Rio. I look at the properties on the videos and see 960x540 resolution. These were downloaded from the "super quality" link. I go back to the available sites and enter "Hustler HD". Download the newest video available, it's 960x540. What the hell? It says HD in the name! I admit, I don't follow the resolution wars of porn, I prefer 720p and consider it the lowest level of HD. So my standards aren't the problem here. I can't imagine what someone wanting 1080p or 4K would think of 960x540 being listed as HD.
Disappointment continued, I went through every site on their "network" and downloaded the newest video they have. Not a single one had a video over 960x540. I stand slightly corrected by myself. I just found one DVD with 720p scenes on it, it's of Asa Akira.
Here's my roundup at this point: Beaver Hunt "site" is not Beaver Hunt. It's Barely Legal DVDs.
The magazines aren't magazines. They are 4-5 pictorials from each magazine.
The high quality videos are below average 960x540 quality. Including the ones on the "site" Hustler HD.
But wait... there is a hustlermagazine site that says it has all of the magazines in digital form. How do I know? It's advertised on every page of this Hustler site. Now back to the layout. You enter the site into a sort of hub. It shows 19 available sites in the network. A few examples of the names, Beaver Hunt, Daddy Gets Lucky, Asian Fever, those sound like real standalone sites that are part of a network, but in reality, those three are in order ... Barely Legal series, the Daughter series of DVDs, (including Barely Legal again), Asian Fever is their commonly-known DVD series' Teen Thailand and random scenes taken from DVDs that feature Asian models.
The further I looked into this Hustler site I started noticing chances to "upgrade" my membership. There's a problem there, why would I upgrade something that hasn't been the least bit entertaining?
The site needs a complete overhaul. Advertising as Hustler with "magz" should include all magazines and every part of those magazines. Advertising HD video should result in HD video. Neither of those said on the membership join pages, "Must upgrade to receive HD video and full magazines". A new search engine would help. Surely there's some 720p videos on here, but I've yet to find them. A simple search engine with an HD filter would do. It receives a 60 simply because it works and has porn on it with many big name stars. I'm guessing the higher def videos are included in the upgraded membership, again, the upgraded membership is not mentioned or offered when you join. Not recommended.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Massive video library. From what I can tell, you have access to every DVD they have made from 2007 onward. But again, many of those are unwatchable poor resolution or small size.
Cons:
- Tiny picture size for the photo galleries, even if you download the zips: 585x1024 pixels. Are you kidding?
- Can’t download the magazines. (You’re stuck taking screenshots of a page you like if you want to keep it.)
- Videos vary from about 720p size (what they call “HD”) to postage-stamp size. I’m not kidding. POSTAGE STAMP SIZE. Sadly, some of the best videos — such as Hot Showers or the older Barely Legals — are often in unwatchable small sizes, or small enough to watch — but not enjoy. Hustler DOES sell these on DVD, and the quality from those is MUCH better. If you download from their website, you’re stuck with “too small” for most videos.
- Difficult to find what you want. Looking for all the Hot Shower DVDs? Tough. Either wade through 993 pages of videos, or click a tag, such as Lesbian, to narrow it down. (IN this case, to 133 pages.) By starting backwards and working my way forward, I was able to find Hot Showers #1 on page 131. Not too bad. But definitely not ideal. I
Bottom Line:
Cons continued:
- 404 Not Found for some videos and magazines.
BOTTOM LINE:
I still recommend you JOIN this site!!! No kidding. The videos in the better ones are so hot that it's worth the crap they make you put up with to get there. And for $20, you can have tons of downloads for the same price as buying a single one of their DVDs.
In the end, you'll want to still buy some of those DVDs, to get the higher resolution, but joining this site will let you know which ones you really want to buy.
And *some* videos are in HD (many of the newer ones). But it's a true shame the older, best (IMO) stuff is in smaller resolution. Much of it 640x480 video size (what they call "Super") or smaller.
Worst site i've ever used. I've used brazzers, twistys, mofos, and erito and whenever i've tried to contact customer service it's always been easy and helpful but with hustler i can say their "24/7 customer service" is a SHAM because i can't get in contact by email and the only person for the phone is ALWAYS AWAY FROM HER DESK. I bought a month and I can't even login because for some reason the account i JUST PAID FOR is locked.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Access to other network sites included
- Access to Hustler magazines
- Frequent updates (65 scheduled video updates for October 2014)
- Various download options
- Pictures can be downloaded in zip files
Cons:
- Regional pricing
- A good chunk of the content is neither exclusive nor Hustler original. Many movies from other studios with logos cut from the DVD covers.
- HD quality is just average compared to other sites. No 1080p Full HD videos
- Video download options are labeled as medium, high or super. You don’t really know what you’re getting before the download is finished
- Download managers are working, but download links expire quickly
- Magazines can’t be downloaded
- Videos streams start playing automatically
- Can’t choose quality of video streams. The site always "optimizes" it for you connection
- Some streamed videos showed combing artifacts
- Ads in the members area
- Bonus sites require login
Bottom Line:
Hustler is one of the biggest names in porn, their website, however, is mediocre at best.
I couldn’t do anything on the first day, because I kept getting internal server errors. I opened a support ticket about this, but never got any reply. On the next day the site was finally working, so it might have been a temporary issue, but some kind of response to my ticket or an apology would have been nice.
The site is easy to navigate once you get in. They do have a proper search function, which is always nice. I don’t like using drop-down lists when I’m looking for a specific model. In addition you get 48 different categories to help you find what you’re looking for. On the profile pages you only get basic biographical information, but scenes from other network sites are shown, which is also nice because you don’t have to search every site individually. What I really liked is that you can find the video update schedule for the whole month on the homepage.
They do update frequently. For October I counted 65 video updates. Compared to other studio sites this really is a lot. But for everything they are doing well, there are at least two things that suck.
Hustler doesn’t do 1080p. The best you can hope for is 720p. The HD quality on those files is just average compared to sites like Evil Angel, Naughty America or Brazzers. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what resolution you’re downloading, because they label their files as medium, high or super. A Super MP4 video, for instance, can be only 540p while the Super WMV version is a 720p HD file. And, of course, older content isn’t even available in HD. Download managers are working with the Hustler sites, but the download links seem to expire quickly (in less than 2 hours).
What really bothered me is that many of the movies available in their network are not original Hustler content. Many scenes are from Combat Zone or Zero Tolerance DVDs. I’ve also spotted some Diabolic, Evil Angel and Pink Visual movies. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some bonus content is always nice. But it isn’t labeled as such. The studio logos are cropped from the movie covers, which is annoying and misleading. After I had joined, I realized that I already have many of the scenes on my HDD, because I have/had a ZTOD and Evil Angel membership.
In addition to videos and pictures, Hustler also offers access to their magazines. That would be great if they hadn’t executed the idea so poorly. Magazines can only be viewed online. A download option isn’t available. At least you can print pages from the magazines. If you want them on your computer you can simply print them as a pdf file. At least in theory. I never managed to print more than 10-15 pages at once. A whole magazine has about 100 pages.
If you want to add some scenes from Hustler DVDs to your collection, go ahead and join. But you’re not missing out if you don’t. If I had to sum up my thoughts about this site with a reference to a Hustler series, I’d say: “This ain’t a good porn site XXX. This is a parody.” Thanks to a deal on another site, I only spent 5€ for a 30 day membership, but I’m kind of regretting it spending that much for this site.
I just reviewed the site, and instead of changing the score, Ill just say it here. TONS of videos I downloaded are now not working properly, even when I try to play them in different media players. I kind of think Hustler did this on purpose...or maybe they are just stupid and fucking lazy.
Either way, be extremely cautious. If you are looking to stream their vidoes, it may be worth joining, but there are other sites you can do that on. If you are looking to download, then youve been warned. Id personally suggest alternative means of getting their content.
Borderline scam IMO. Content may be good but everything else is meh or worse.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
-ALOT of content from all their videos
-Varied content: Something for ALMOST everyone
-Teen lovers will get the most enjoyment.
-Multiple download options for most videos (WMV, QT, MP4, etc)
-Video quality is good-very good for most videos
-Regular updates by Hustler and various other studios
-Lots of popular and amateur porn starlets
-High quality pictures for some sites on the Hustler network
-Good download speeds
-Decent price
Cons:
-MANY of the videos started to malfunction days after I downloaded them.
-ALOT of the scenes are mislabled or the wrong video is uploaded.
-NO SOUND AT ALL on alot of newer videos.
-Scene/DVD Navigation and setup is pretty awful
-Alot of older videos are stone age quality
-No true HD options
-Streaming can be annoying because often have to reload it to get it to play. At least I did.
-Videos dont have screen caps
-Majority of updates are videos you can find on other sites
-Some Hustler videos are shot very well while others look terrible
-Sound is out of sync in several videos (not too many though)
-Search engine sucks in some cases.
-No where to report minor issues with videos.
Bottom Line:
UPDATE 5/9/2012: I lowered the score once again and I take back what I said about joining for a month. At this point, its hardly even worth that. Not because of content or updates because as mentioned, they are pretty good. Its the overall fuckin shittiness of how the site is run...from the videos to the site navigation. Hustler is a huge name in porn and you would expect something better, but you dont really get it
The main reason I lowered the score was because over the last few days (my subscription ended today) alot of the videos I downloaded went bad...either they lost sound or they would stop playing mid way through. And I seriously doubt the issue is on my end because I havent had issues with any other videos from other places.
UPDATED Bottom line: It may still be worth A month, but do so with caution. I will not be joining this site ever again. Better ways to spend money that on a site ran with such little care.
This is a hard site to grade, because some of my cons may not be cons to everyone. BY FAR, the biggest issue with this site is the fact that so many scenes are either mislabled or they dont have the right scenes uploaded. They have each movie divided into scenes. There were several movies I checked out where every scene on that movie was the same...meaning they accidentally (I think anyway) uploaded the same scene from a particular movie. That pissed me off because there were scenes I wanted and couldnt get for that reason.
This issue alone knocked 10 points off for me.
And while there is customer service, there should be somewhere on the video pages where you can report a problem. Im not going to email tech support with every issue I found with the videos.
Beyond that, there are only minor gripes. Hustler has a good lineup of movies and scenes, especially for guys who like teens and 20 somethings.
There is alot to like and they do alot well, but there are issues with the setup of the site that are really annoying. They even just changed it up and I thought they may have improved things, but while the site now looks sleeker, the navigation is still just as bad if not worse for movies and scenes. Not that you cant find what you are looking for, but its poorly done IMO. The search engine is pretty crappy too. I did searches for certain porn stars and they never showed up in the search, even though I knew they had scenes on the site.
Bottom line: This site is definitely worth a month at least, especially if you like teens and 20 somethings. But I personally wont be staying longer than a month. The original updates just arent there enough and the mislabled/wrong upload thing annoys the fuckin shit out of me.
I am very disappointed with this site.
Without going on a lengthy tirade I will list some of the reasons why I find this site to be a major disappointment.
1)Video Quality.
The videos here are of the worst quality I have ever seen.
Pixelation on the "HD" videos is so pronounced they are
virtually unwatchable. Have you ever seen the "mosaics" in
Japanese porn that are used to cover the genitals? Imagine
if those mosaics were enlarged to cover major portions of the
action! Thats what it's like viewing a video from Hustler.com
2) Download Speeds
Download speeds were extremely slow. At times less than
100kb/sec. I cannot live with that.
3) Picture Count/Quality
The amount of pictures available on this site is very
disappointing. On some the picture "sets" there were no more
than 5 or 6 images available. Added to the disappointed is
the piss poor quality of the images. The images are dull,
lack detail and sharpness, and the colors are washed out.
In short, the images are nothing like the images in Hustler
magazine that we have known and loved for years.
Maybe i'm stupid, but it's difficult to understand why a
corporation such as Hustler, that has been a pioneer, an
industry innovator, would produce such poor quality porn.
I just dont understand it.
I cancelled my subcription to this site and I cannot
recommend it to anyone else.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Quite large collection of Hustler's DVD's available for download
-Streaming is clearly taken care of. Scenes have up to 12 different choices of video format and bitrate available which is clearly excessive
-Photography is very professional in the picture sets taken from Hustler's magazines
-Some old DVD's are really good content wise, for example those directed by Pierre Woodman during his Hustler days
-No download limits
-No DRM anymore
-Decent download speeds even overseas
Cons:
-Some scenes not downloadable with no explanation
-Many DVD's have only few scenes available even though the DVD is listed as released on the site. Sometimes scenes appear later but as there is no clear update calendar, it's hard to tell when
-Photosets are small and not downloadable as zip files. To furtheer complicate the matter, all the images are behind two clicks from the thumbnail gallery view and all images within a set have the same name forcing you to manually rename them if you want to save them on your HD. Photos older than few years are small messy scans
-Where is the rest of the magazine content? That's the first think one'd expect when joining Hustler site
-Video quality ranges from mediocre to poor. The later pseudo HD scenes have blocky compression artifacts although some are actually decent
-Some scenes are only downloadable at lower quality compared to stream
-Models are mostly average looking with some bigger stars in between
Bottom Line:
Cons continued:
-Slow update rate compared to other, cheaper DVD sites
-Scenes lack contrast, are poorly lit, not crisp etc.
-Regional pricing. They try to charge you more just because you are outside US. There's a workaround for that but then you lose your TBP special price
-They try to trick you into buying something you did not ask for. It's quite sneaky actually that there is a pre checked sale for another sites trial that is quite cheap so you wont probably notice it at the checkout but it rebills after few days at full price
-No real subsites despite the advertising. The "sites" are just scene categories
-Wmv as the only download format. Limiting what can be used to view the clips
I had high hopes despite the reviews, when joining Hustler's site. After all, Larry Flynt and Hustler are like #1 hard porn company in the world, quite the same as Playboy is to the softcore. However the site was a big disappointment to me.
Everyone's probably seen a Hustler DVD or two and knows that they are your run of the mill generic American porn (nothing wrong with that) with some parody thrown in between. They also have a long backlog with more interesting stuff (Woodman etc.) I was interested to see. However, all but the latest DVD's are ruined by miseraable presentation. When browsing deeper into the past DVD's you soon find yourself staring at a grainy video aize of a postage stamp. Come on Larry and guys, you have the DVD's! Hire some kid to re-rip them into something viewable. Generally I'd say that the older material seems better here also but I cannot really enjoy it in that form.
Same applies to photos. The photography is good but the presentation fails after few last years. They've obviously made it nearly impossible to download them on purpose.
Downloading is another issue. There is no full DVD download but you can only download individual scenes. Sometimes you cannot download the scenes at all with no explanation but they have the nerve to give you a link to buy that DVD (for example the Avatar parody I read they are sueing people over the net for pirating). WTF? Didn't I join the site to not have to buy them? Sometimes you can download only lower quality cleap even though the streaming version is available with better image.
That brings me to the "HD" content. Some of the newer scenes are available in 720p format that is quite ok but from time to time you feel like you are watchin lego porn when some freaky, blocky compression artifacts take the resolution away. Could these be just DVD resolution that's been upscaled?
Take my review again with a grain of salt. I found I do not like Hustler DVD's. They seem too basic and cheaply produced. Scenes are poorly lit, low in saturation and blurry. I don't know the word but they are the opposite of crisp and vibrant.
NOT recommended as it is. If they fixed the download issues and brought the existing content to a good DVD quality level, it wouldn't be half bad site.
Although this site has regional pricing in €/$ depending on where you're surfing from, I noticed it's not too strongly enforced. Joining through some of their so called subsites sometimes gives you USD prices for exactly the same deal. For example via Hustler's Taboo site I was given subscription options in USD and while I still couldn't get those PU special prices, the three month package is quite reasonably priced if you are into this kind of stuff.
Just wanted to point out that while their newer videos are getting better quality from a technical standpoint, it appears as though they have some encoding problems as there are many more artifacts and glitches in the videos than you typically see at that bitrate.
It indeed appears that the TBP pricing is only available for US residents which makes the monthly subscription quite expensive.
If someone is member, I'd like to know few things about site:
Is it mostly DVD's and scenes from them or do they focus on single HD scenes like many other networks (my preference)?
How is Hustler's Taboo? I saw some scenes years ago and they were more like HouseOfTaboo in style but now it appears in previews that they have mostly scenes from their DVD's there too. How much content is on the subsite?
I was considering joining this site, because it looks attractive enough, but the 19.95$ PU offer doesn't seem to apply in Europe, because the monthly membership was 29.95€. I tried it a couple of times just to make sure, but same price appeared. Sorry, I am not joining at that price...
Just to let you know when I joined, I joined because of how it was rated, which I think they are OVER rated this site. Anyway when I joined thru pornuser.com to Hustler, the reduced price was only for 1 month, it then switches to the regular price of about $30.00 dollars...I checked again with the CC company and it also stated it was a TRIAL. Another thing that got me mad was that the bonus sites are bogus, the DVD's are broken down into classes, babes, teens. milf etc. and that is how you get the bonus sites. I'd say save your hard earned money and join some other DVD site which would be money better spent. Pictures cannot be downloaded, unless you click and save every single picture one by one. Not all th DVD's can be downloaded, the movie size is about 720 or smaller on some of the DVD's.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Huge archive of videos
-Many videos actually have stories, albeit most are pretty stupid, it is nice to see this amongst all the drop your pants and fuck kind of sites.
-Many attractive women
-Pretty good download speeds, although somewhat variable given time of day (1MB/sec max, 700KB/sec average)
-Download managers work
-Pictures are pretty decent quality, newer photos are about 1500x1000
-No DRM anymore
-Access to barelylegal.com as well, although a lot of the content on barelylegal is also on Hustler.
-Good quality photography and videography
-Good price with TBP discount
Cons:
-Navigation is mediocre. You can sort by star, dvd title, and other things, but with an archive this large it would be nice to have more sorting options and a search ability.
-Navigating for photosets is particularly annoying, very difficult to just browse.
-Video quality is mediocre to poor. The best I downloaded was 640x360 1700kbps. They even commically call some of the videos of this ilk "HD".
-Video quality for older DVDs is poor, as low as 700kbps in highest quality.
-No zips for photosets
-While download managers work, they can be a bit glitchy as the path to files change, so you can only really queue up a few files
-Some videos aren't available for download, most are, it seemed like most of the videos that couldn't be downloaded were newer additions
-Some videos were a bit glitchy - 2 scenes in one, the ending missing, etc.
Bottom Line:
I think this site gets somewhat of a bad rap, as historically it was a horrible site with streaming only options and terrible navigation. I think it is much better now than it was in the past (even though the only change I noticed was getting rid of DRM). Maybe I just have a soft spot for Hustler since the first DVDs I ever bought were Barely Legal DVDs.
If they improved the video quality, added some better navigation, and provided zip downloads of photosets this would probably be one of my highest rated sites.
The archive is quite large, 830 DVDs on Hustler, and 346 on barelylegal. Even with some overlap, that is a nice sized archive.
I particularly enjoy the style of many of Hustler's videos and enjoy that many of them have a story - which seems less and less common these days. They appear to also have a large magazine archive, although I didn't have the patience to sort through it.
I would definitely recommend the site for a month, especially for $20/month. Even with the mediocre video quality, I still enjoy a lot of the scenes I downloaded here more than HD content on other sites. I'd be surprised if anyone couldn't find some material they like on this site. However, if you are a fan of photos, this probably isn't the best site to join.
I figured that I wouldn’t do a full review since there have been a couple recently and I’m in agreement with most of what the reviewers say.
First off is a really general opinion of the site. I was glad to get access to such a large portion of the Hustler catalogue. Three cheers to Larry for that. But I was mostly disappointed with the site. There are a few little things that I can point to that I didn’t like, but overall it was a just a feeling that the site could – and should – be so much better.
I don’t get this. If I had the resources that Hustler has, I’d make the best damned porn site on the ‘net. It’d be easy to access and navigate through, and I’d have multiple options for streaming and downloading that would push the industry standard. I figure that of all the old ‘mainstream’ print empires, Hustler would be the most likely to try this. Playboy wouldn’t, because they have no hardcore to offer. Penthouse – well Penthouse tried to be everything to everyone and became nothing to nobody. But Larry Flynt seemed to get video early.
The Hustler website, however, seems to have something about it that I can’t quite describe. It’s like it was born of an order from Larry who said “This internet thing seems to be catching on a bit with the young people. But it’s just a flash in the pan and people will abandon it soon and come back to magazines. Get in and get some of that internet business but don’t go overboard because it’ll die.” That’s the sense I get about the site. It’s a kind of malaise. The kind that plagued North American car manufacturers for so long. You know – when you bought a Big 3 car and got a sense that some engineer said on a Friday afternoon, “It’s good enough. Let’s go home.”
There are little things. For one thing, the stuff that was posted years ago has never been updated. Those files still have crappy resolution and come in multiple parts. The best resolutions available don’t appear often and even those would barely meet the standards of many other websites. The search function for the talent didn’t work. I tried it several times throughout my membership and it never worked right at all. And for those of us who download, in many cases the highest quality download was much less than the highest quality stream.
Bottom line for me is this site is definitely worth a membership to get access to Hustler’s stuff, but it could have been so much better. Picture it’s 1976 and Larry Flynt brings out the Vega. It has an engine that’ll blow up in 20K miles, a three-speed manual tranny, and bias-ply tires. Kink.com is Honda, sneaking in with a little product called the Civic that has more technology in it’s radio than the entire Vega. The Vega was a decent little car, but for a lot of people, good enough ain’t good enough.
Many people have already pointed out the good stuff and the bad so I won't do a review, just go over the stuff that I encounter and thus add my 2 cents...
-not enough photos
-sometimes frustrating to navigate
-some videos cannot be downloaded
-DRM is not in effect anymore. See reply #1 from webmaster
-a pretty decent price
-a lot of interesting videos such as the This ain't series (this ain't star trek, this ain't happy days, etc.)
-a lot of pron that clearly has a large-ish budget behind it. Quality stuff all and all, but the DRM is frustrating...
First off, as a pic fiend, I was pretty disappointed. The galleries are usually really small, ranging generally between 10-20 pics, and there are no zips. So, aha, I finally got it: It's a video site.
There are a lot of videos. And there are a lot of theme-based Hustler "sites" you can access from the main one. The themes are things like college girls, anal, "cum crazy," milfs, etc. Vids that show up on one may appear on another as well. You could see this either as an annoyance or a convenience.
There's a lot of variation in terms of what you can access and how quickly. Some vids were "1200" (864x480 wmv), some were only up to "768" (720x480). Some had smaller dimensions than that. And sometimes, they were streaming only.
I like to preview vids online and click ahead through scenes before I decide to download. With some of them, it was a snap, but not with others, which I just downloaded before viewing.
Some downloads took under 5 minutes. Others took quite a bit longer.
For the price of $20, it's not at all a bad site, but it's not great, either. I'd joined years ago and just hated it then, but it's definitely more user-friendly than it had been.
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