I'm thinking about joining this site. I am concerned about giving my billing address, which I know is necessary to use my credit card, and that it's done by a third party, such as CC Bill, Epoch, LocalBilling, Meta-Billing, or Webbilling.
Do any of these companies or Videobox send you any sort of information to your physical address? I don't mind email spam because it's not being sent to my normal e-mail.
I want to make sure the website is discreet before I join it.
Is it still numero UNO, Rick? Will give it another try
Just read the latest review from TBP/Rick - and the announcement that:
"VideoBox Continues Their Reign Tied For #1"
And, no: I have not lived under a rock - pornwise, that is.
But I've seen a lot of not so good comments here - and I've been a member over and over and over again for years now.
And have stayed away for quite some time - main reason: General lack of REAL HD vids in that top quality.
But ok, I really like Ricks review here - every PU should read it.
And I'm now up for another go.........
And Rick: If it's not a whole lot better than a year or so ago, I'll come whip your....
LOL!!
If one deletes the VB cookie, one can stay with the old interface which eliminates my frustration with the site caused by VB3. As long as they maintain that option I will be happy.
I apologize for my ranting about VB3 when all I had to do was delete the cookie. I thought the change was being forced on users. I am probably not alone in this confusion. I just logged in, and there it was.
With an archive of almost 10,000 DVDs covering all types of porn and 5 new DVDs per day, VB is a great source of material.
VideoBox.com came to their senses and put VB3 on hold while they tried to work out the bugs. I am sure the largely negative reaction from users was one reason. Now VB3 is back. From my point of view, VB3 still sucks. Some reviewers have pointed out a few advantages of VB3. For example, more niches make it easier to find videos of specific interest.
Nevertheless, here is why I do not like VB3.
I took a standard operation that I go through almost every time I access the site. It took 7 mouse movements and clicks under the old interface and 28 mouse movements and clicks under VB3. That means it is four times the work to get to what I am looking for. A second seemingly minor but very real frustration is that the pop-up floating windows often block the link I want to click. One has to back up and try to approach the link from a different direction to avoid triggering a floating window. Mouse-over pop-up windows may be the latest cool thing in web programming, but they are a pain in the ass for most users. The new VB3 is a slight improvement over the old VB3, but I still prefer the pre-VB3 interface and would like the option of continuing to use it.
At least one other reviewer commented that the quality was going down. With so many DVD's, (5 new every day at 5:00 AM PT), there will be some good and some bad. Also, VB tries to have something for everyone. In my case, only one or two videos per week interest me. That is a sufficient number to justify the $15 monthly cost.
VB changed its format and its content quality has suffered. Five updates are offered at once but the updates rarely change by production companies. Content of said videos has fallen dramatically. VB appears to have substituted bargain basement vids for quality, and by that I mean attractiveness of "actors/actresses", action and plain old good pornography. It's cheap production, unattractive sex has made it less than desireable.
It continues its downward spiral. Studios such as Private, Harmony, H2 are no longer posted. Very poor quality porn scenes/unattractive women/slow downloads....I could continue.
I've seen the pros and cons below my comment and can understand a certain reluctance to accept such a dramatic change, but after my first negative reaction I must say that after taking some time to get used to the new way of doing things I like VB3.
As exotics pointed out there are more niches to pick from and things can really be fine-tuned to a point where you get (mostly .. there's still the odd mistake) exactly what your heart desires. It certainly encourages lengthy browsing, something I normally don't do, and just like exotics I have found, and downloaded, scenes I would have never looked at before version 3.
I was tempted to stay with a listing of the DVDs rather than with the scenes but am starting to see the advantages of the latter.
I also find the streaming impressive. I am not sure if they improved their flash player since last I was a member, but most scenes appear to play cleaner and clearer than I remember.
I would still like to see more niche content but, as to VB3, I think it's nice once you get used to it.
I wonder when we can expect "My VB3" to be functional? There are even more filters to pick from plus the capacity to change your nick etc. Important if you like to leave comments but don't want to give away your user name.
Too bad, they have ruined this site. The old interface gave you large previews, was fast and easy to navigate. None of that is true with the new interface. I doubt I will ever join this site again, the new interface waste too much time and is too frustrating to use.
Fortunately many of there competitors still use the older and much better interface. They will get my business from this point forward.
I wasn't too happy with my first glance at the new Videobox called VB3. After a few test runs on it, I actually like the new search engine in VB3 better than the one in the old version of VB.
The big difference you will notice in the search engine is that the old search engine had roughly 40 niche categories, where as the new VB3 search engine has 112. Just off of basic searches, clicking a niche, I've found quite a few DVDs I hadn't seen on VB before. Also, if you're taking it for a test run be sure to sign in. For whatever reason, if you're signed into the old version then click to go to VB3, it doesn't automatically sign you in. Once signed in, most of the clutter is reduced.
Where things get confusing is when you look at the top of the VB3 page, over to your right, a "channels" button. When you click this, you expect to see Evil Angel and Vivid, which I have subscriptions to both, but now there's two more channels.
Those two new channels are Kink.com and RealityKings.com, both of these are in my favorite site groups so I'm of course going to click on them. The Reality Kings one only has 90 some scenes and the Kink one only has 70 some scenes. Now the confusion really comes in. You can stream 4 videos from these sites, called previews, but it looks to be full scene streams. There also is a choice to download the scenes.
When I click download scene, a box pops up that asks if I want to subscribe to the channel. The Kink channel says they add 4 HD scenes per week. The Reality Kings channel says they add 1 new scene per day. It says my amount due to subscribe is $0 so I click subscribe and I receive a server error message. Most likely since my subscription has been canceled.
So, I'm wondering if anyone knows the prices that these are going to be to subscribe to? I'm not for sure the Reality Kings one interests me that much since I join it every 3 months anyway and RK is a network so I could get all these scenes with a Reality Kings subscription. On the other hand, Kink isn't a network and requires you to join multiple sites to see the different niches they have, so that one would have some interest from me.
I did a test join using another browser and neither are offered in the sign-up process like Vivid and Evil Angel are, so I'm guessing those are add-ons for members only. Anyone that has joined the Kink channel? I would like to see what the price is going to be.
I liked the options of making my own dvd based on the clips I actually liked. So many times, you purchase a movie and end up fast forwarding through half of the dvd. Economical way of creating your own personal porn collection!
The updates are still too heavily in favor of a younger crowd. Because they are the majority I cannot blame this site for catering to them, however, do you think the following statistic is fair to lovers of older women?
GILF DVD updates according to their search engine: 12 in 2006, 8 in 2007, none in 2008, 1 in 2009, 1 in 2010, none so far in 2011!
I am definitely feeling ignored. I bet the same could be said for other unusual niches. By all means let the majority rule, it's only good business, but at least throw us a crumb now and then, VideoBox, and with that I don't mean once a year.
Not only you have to pay in euros living in Europe but you are denied the TBP/PU discount making this one almost a 50$ a month subscription if you want the EA + Vivid included. I wonder if one could circumvent this kind of nonsense using a proxy server?
I understand there's not much TBP/PU can do about this kind of practices but at least they should make sure all their users get the discounts.
What are these? On their FAQ they state: "Premium DVDs from Evil Angel, Vivid, Kink, and Reality Kings", I cannot find the latter two listed under their studios or as special tabs on the top.
Those two would be awesome additions but probably they'd be only DVD quality as is the nature of the site.
I've been checking Videobox every so often and yes have been a member quite a few times. What drives me crazy is their search engine or lack of an organized one. Tried for example Mckenzee Miles got overy 1,000 hits and only 5 actual videos of this broad. If you can stand the laziness of this site I recommend it and will probably join again. Rob12
Tomorrow is my last day with this site. Final judgment: too scared to take a chance on unusual material. Another site where I look at the updates, see that they look like yesterday's update and log out. I think I did get my money's worth by finding some stuff among their older material that appealed to me but the new stuff is .. blech! The high score is not warranted, technically maybe, but not for new contents.
Does $1 US dollar = £1 UK Pound still at VideoBox?
I love VideoBox, but was stunned when renewing earlier this year to be charged 'Pounds for Dollars', with no alternative currency options at all. That's a 60% price hike for UK subscribers. Shocking.
Does anyone know if VideoBox are still playing this evil trick?
I was going through the Vivid channel since I seem to find more there that I like than even on the VB main site and noticed a whole collection of "40 inch plus" DVDs. These, from the best I can tell are from the Reality Kings site, "40 Inch Plus". This is not really a bad thing. They have, one scene, that stood out to me on the Vivid channel in this series, Eva Angelina in a garage with a bald guy and motorcycle. On RK, the scene is split into parts and doesn't have a full video option. On Vivid it is the full version. You'll also find plenty of Viv Thomas DVDs now on VB. I'm pretty sure there are some from the site Super Glam too. Yesterday's updates saw the release of Shane's World DVD #1 which is going into a major improvement of downloading these scenes from the Shane's World site.
Those Shane's World videos are often well-known porn stars early in their careers. The quality on VB, while not as good as I would like, is better than the quality on Shane's World. I'm somewhat surprised about just these findings since all of those sites listed above are/were "exclusive" sites. I think this practice, maybe 1 DVD per day from a previously exclusive site, would be a huge boost to VB since many of these, like Super Glam, were very poor video quality on their sites and at least get an upgrade in quality being released on DVDs to Videobox. There may be more of these, but these are the ones that I have noticed.
What am I doing wrong because I certainly don't get Maggie's sharp DVD quality when I look at the scenes I download? Some are nice and clear (except in full window) but most are below my acceptable standard even with the high bit rates. And, yes, I am subscribing to the DVD quality level. I also find that large daily updates don't mean a thing if they all basically feature the same sort of action. Niche content is being sadly neglected. Didn't I mention that someplace before?
I noticed it costs only couple of euros extra per month to get those extra videos but there is no long term, non recurring, special price subscription that includes them.
Vivid is probably "meh" to me but I recon Evil Angel has some good stuff. Are they actually adding the latest material from those studios or just randoms from their old material? If unsubscribed extra content comes up in searches along other material, I guess I'd feel pissed off for not having paid for it anyway though...
For the past few weeks this site has been very slow, with speeds around a mere 10 kb/s. Has anyone else been experiencing this problem or does it only occur in Europe?
Has anybody else been having problems with the site lately? It allows me to log in and browse movies, but when I click on the movies it just goes to a blank screen and nothing else. Are they upgrading their system and their server is having issues maybe?
Would be nice to know if they are or what the deal is.
Just thought I would point out that they appear to be offering a full access trial (3 days for $5) with Vivid and Evil Angel - although this join option didn't come up when I went through PU, but perhaps it is just a cookies thing. Also, the continued price is $29.95/month, which I assume includes the bonus content as well - otherwise it is quite a ripoff on renewal...
Edit: So I deleted my cookies in Safari and tried again, this time I got offered a 3-day full access trial for free. I don't really get it. Neither offer showed up when I clicked through PU, however.
So, Videobox changed their pricing model as sites often do - now subscribers to premium channels can get them both for 1 price, as compared to paying $17.95/month for 1.
I inquired, as a current subscriber, whether current subscribers - like me - would be upgraded to get access to the other premium channel. My first response was a fairly rote response - here's the FAQ's - not helpful. I thought that would be the end of it.
Today I come home from work, surprised and pleased to see that someone who works for Videobox actually read my inquiry and upgraded my account to get access to the other premium channel.
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