Private.com (0)
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| Status: |
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Over 6,000 hardcore and lesbian scenes of mostly exclusive hardcore porn
+ A lot of attractive euro girls, mostly teen to early 20's with a few MILFs as well
+ $15 a month through TBP
+ No download limits
+ Good download speeds for me, about 2-3 mb/sec
+ HD files are not excessively large but no file size is ever given
+ Get to see a lot of porn stars, especially early in their careers
+ In browser playback is mostly smooth and you have different stream options
+ Allows for comments, saving scenes as favorites and rating scenes
+ Updates 6x per week
+ Mostly high production value, lots of exotic or unique scene locales too
+ About 90% exclusive content or at least Private media exclusive |
| Cons: |
- Prechecked cross sale
- Support is a bit questionable
- Almost, but not quite, a site for picture oriented porn geeks
- Limited model info, model directory not complete
- Search functions limited and scene tags are too broad for a decent search
- File names are terrible
- About 40% of content is not HD and there's some psuedo-HD as well
- Some scenes get repeated/recycled, especially early on
- Cannot download 4k vids, only stream them
- Just because an update occurs today doesn't mean the scene was shot recently ... or even this century (I'm not kidding).
- Lots of anal and dp if that isn't your thing. |
| Bottom Line: |
This incarnation of the Private website started in 2010 and consists of 251 pages of updates as of August 2017. This site is really a tale of 2 halves. Keep in mind that the date a scene is posted is not when it was shot. Thus, the oldest 125 pages is mostly content shot in the 90's or early 2000's on VHS and converted in 480 digital format. Ouch! Because Private was mostly about producing porn in exotic locales a lot of the early scenes suffer from poor lighting, poor sound, not so special special effects, tons of shitty background music, and the then European obsession with endless closeup shots. Because some scenes were shot in a foreign language Private decided to have the dialogue and sex sound overdubbed on some of these. I challenge you to not laugh as a low quality, poorly lit scene streams hideous overdubbed sex sounds from a double penetration with smooth jazz blaring in the background. Some early scenes get recycled too.
Things finally change with roughly the updates from 2013 onwards (the most recent half). You get HD vids on most updates. By 2014 you start getting reasonable picture counts with sizes coming in at 1600x1060 (96dpi) with some sets getting up to 1500x2300. 4K vids arrive in late 2015 but you can only stream at 4k, not download. They also get away from the obsession with closeups and some of the ultra exotic locales in favor of more set work with higher production values.
Here's some specs:
PICS: Not all scenes have pics (even recent ones) and most are at 1000x1500 (96dpi) with 1600x1060 sizes or larger coming since about 2014. The pic count offered by TBP and the Private is exaggerated. The early scenes only offered a few dozen pics at best and the majority of pics are mostly the obligatory pre-scene pose shots. Starting around 2012/13 you get more scenes with reasonable pic counts (80-200 per scene) without the endless posing. Like most sites, the vids typically show more action than the pics. All scenes with pics have zip downloads although file names are just a series of letters and numbers. The photo viewer sucks though, you only get 8 pics per page and have to frequently jump though a lot of pages to see if you want to download the zip. Pics aren't always in order either when viewing in browser or opening the zip file. The pics tend to be good quality but limited size makes this an iffy site for pic lovers.
VIDS: As noted above, a lot of the early content is just old standard media shots or VHS shots converted into 480p. 480 is only download option for about 40% of the content, otherwise you have options of 480, 720, 1080 or phone. HD comes along in 2013 but, suspiciously, you have 720 or 1080p as options – no transition from 720 to 1080 or “i” to “p” on the HD. I didn't dig into this deeply but given the age of some of these scenes there is no way they could have been shot at 1080p. Thus, my claim of “psuedo HD” on some scenes applies. Download speeds were good though and the file sizes were reasonable – I download mostly in 720 and half hour scenes were usually 500-700 mb. Scenes range from a few minutes to almost an hour, most fall into 15-30 minutes.
Navigation needs some work. Pagination is limited, but you can manually adjust for page numbers to jump around as needed. Model info is limited. Tags are too generic for any meaningful search and some scenes are mislabelled or tagged as well. As noted above, the picture viewer needs work. The inbrowser stream player works well and has the pop-up screen shot available on the time bar for most videos although how well it works varies from scene to scene. Really the only way to view this site is to page by page.
You signup (less prechecked cross sale) through rocketgate. To cancel you have to submit a support ticket. I was canceled within minutes but I did a confirmation email. Private also makes pretty clear that they don't do support.
A lot of the older content is endemic of what Euro porn used to be: closeups, background music, actors looking at the camera, and very male-centric in that the hot girls are really just willing props with an orifice for you to stick your meat into them. Often, if it went into one orifice it was going into all three. More recently it's a lot more reflective of what you see on DDF, 21st sextury and teenmegaworld. I stunned to see some heartcore type as recent updates. The scenes also have more of a story arc (no dp's within minutes of a girl meeting 2 strangers in the woods) and less emphasis on exotic locations and more on production value. While the production value rises some of what made Private Private has disappeared. It's less focused on exotic locales and scenes with lots of hardcore action and is now more generic in that the scenes now look like they could be shot by any of the major Euro companies.
Overall, the site gets most of it's points from the fact that there is so much content. It's too big to fail but could be better. |
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