Vivid (0)
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- One of porn's most prominent studios. A long-history of porn with a plot and parodies of mainstream movies plus you get their celebrity collection if you're into that.
- They have started allowing downloads.
- I'm confident that every major porn star (prior to 2010) has at least one scene on here.
- Navigation is pretty good, it has to be or else I would lower the score a lot for the hassle the site puts up.
- Though it might not look like it, there are full DVDs here, you just have to search by title to find all the scenes for each.
- I'm going to put this with a slight asterisk, download speed has been very good but I downloaded a couple of the older scenes earlier and wasn't even getting half my regular download speed, possibly on a different server?
- This is a strange pro but there's lots of non-facial cumshots!
- Major stars have lots of content and short-lived Vivid stars do as well. April Flowers has 51 scenes, I didn't know she filmed that many scenes. |
| Cons: |
- Oh for fuck's sake, could you figure out how to squeeze one more ad onto the site? No joke, there are 16 individual ads on a page, most are chat models, others are for Vivid penis pills and one huge one at the top of the screen about how to get 120 free chat tokens. To put this all into perspective, this is on a model's page. It shows 8 equal sized scenes by the model with 16 ads.
- The rarely seen SBW biller, seems easy enough to cancel but haven't seen them in years.
- While it doesn't bother me, scenes have been removed from the stream-only days. For me, there's enough of the classic content to offset this but definitely some are missing. |
| Bottom Line: |
Tired of watching loud-mouthed guys who sound like squealing pigs when cumming? Try some Vivid! Back to the days of Tom Selleck mustaches, old-school Oakley blade sunglasses and Zubazz pants. Call it cheesy but the women and action are hotter than today's porn.
Two girls with a guy and one girl dodges the cumshot? Not here. One of the favorite hobbies of Vivid watchers is to see how often the would-be dodger gets hit on the cheek by a cumshot aimed at the other woman's mouth. April Flowers, just known as April on here is one of my favorite porn actresses of all-time. She's a Latina who lied about her race because Latina wasn't a genre in the late 90s, early 2000s, she even used the April Flowers and April Rain name to try not to show her Latina background. The only problem was her Latina backside couldn't help but show as she wiggled, grinded and twisted it to humble every man Vivid threw at her. As the old saying goes, she didn't even look the part. One of those cum dodging threesomes features April and a younger Raylene than current porn fans know. Raylene supposedly loved having cumshots on her belly and boobs, April wasn't feeling the scene since she was mostly just watching, she's laying there and the cumshot hits her chin and arm. According to lore, she filmed the "Marissa" scene the next day and made the guy cum four times. Maybe that's what made the late 90s, early 2000s Vivid porn so good?
April, Kobe Tai, Asia Carrera, Taylor Hayes, Raylene, Shelbee Myne, Charlie, Charlie Angel, Sky Lopez, a very young Belladonna and Zara White, just off the top of my head, seemed to be constantly competing with each other. You got nearly perfect performances from them in every scene.
I joined this site back about 5 years ago to get the scenes the Vivid channel on Videobox didn't have but it was stream only. One of my all-time favorite DVD series is "The Watcher", it's what it says, a voyeur watches two or more people have sex. It was revolutionary for its time (90s-2000s). One of the more memorable scenes was Charlie and some guy sneaking into a prison, they start to have sex and this guy appears, just watching, it seemed to kick Charlie into another gear. They still have those on here for download. Those alone are worth the price.
But also being able to download scenes of my favorites who I haven't seen content of for download is a huge plus too.
As impressed as I am with the content that is available, there's a chunk of content missing too. I don't see it as a huge negative simply because I'm happy to just get these scenes I hadn't been able to download.
In my pros I said the navigation is pretty good and it is. How else could you find anything among the ads? The model search works but that always falls back on the person knowing who they're looking for. Doing DVD title searches also works but again, you have to know what you're looking for.
After that, the navigation is bad. And the site layout plays into that. They've also taken liberties with renaming models. April Flowers is no longer that, she's just April. Raylene's various last names have been removed as have Charlie's which makes it confusing because there's also a Charlie Angel, the name Charlie sometimes used except it was Charlie's Angel.
Navigation also makes it very hard to come up with a definitive number of scenes. They have as many as 20 on title searches and there's no numbers on how many pages there are. Instead, you just click an arrow and it loads the next 20. All of this could be improved. Throw in the old biller and the 2 pre-selected cross-sales with 2 more upsale ads showing up before allowing me into the member's area and these things alone are taking 10 points off the score.
Many of these scenes are nearing 20 years old. They have a 1080p download option on all. They also have a 720p and SD option. I downloaded some 1080p of April's old scenes and the properties say 1920x1080 but they're not. For one, the scenes are 4:3, so there's a black box around each side and for two, the bitrates on the 1080p are only in the 4,000 range. Before throwing them under the bus, these do look better, cleaner than the Vivid Classic scenes I have from Videobox. So, maybe they've done all they can with them and that's good enough for me. You can even see in the filesizes (most 1080p at 500-600 MB), that these are not 1080p scenes.
Still, where are you going to get these great scenes? I've been through a lot of porn, moving it, deleting it but I've never deleted a single scene from my Vivid folder. One last warning is the site is overwhelming with the ads, the questionable search, so I do think if they cleaned up all these site layout and navigation problems they would have a really great site. As it is, for collectors and curious ones, it's a great find. A couple of longtime favorite scenes: April and Raylene in House of Lies #3, April and Raylene again in Bad Wives #2 and the aforementioned April in Marrisa. |
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