VideoBox (0)
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- I'm pretty sure it's the biggest porn site on the internet and if not, it's close.
- Depending on your tastes, I find most of the new DVD porn to be similar to what you find on the big networks.
- They've cleaned up a lot of navigation and site issues but more issues have showed up.
- The standard membership gives you a lot of value, especially if you're new to porn.
- Download speeds are very good, going right at 80% and up of my max DL speed.
- Most of the new(er) DVDs are in 1080p resolution.
- Still updating with 5 DVDs per day (average of 20 scenes).
- The biggest pro in my opinion is the opportunity to rack up a huge collection of your favorite stars.
- More genres than they realize they have. I believe the only thing you won't find here is gay male porn.
- Easy to join and cancel with their onsite cancellation process. |
| Cons: |
- The search is back to being broken but not really broken, it's just they now include all their scenes from their add-on channels in your search results.
- I used to not think too much of this but it's becoming a big problem now ... way too many repeat scenes.
- If a person joined all the add-on channels Videobox has they would have upwards of $200 invested in a one month membership. |
| Bottom Line: |
I thought the last time I reviewed Videobox would be the last time but at least one model has caught my attention who I've been collecting scenes of and VB has a large amount of scenes of her. It's also the easiest place to add to your niche interests like handjobs and some CFNM too.
What do you get for updating your porn site with 5 DVDs per day for years? A mess. Videobox currently shows 19,748 DVDs and that's 106,244 scenes. The dilemma you'll find yourself in is there's no doubt you can find something you'll like or maybe even a lot that you like but you will spend a whole lot of time trying to find it all and a lot of frustration.
My current example: I once saw a CFNM scene that featured this unnamed model, the other 2 models were named in it but this other one played the role of the sweet, shy, innocent girl who just watched. I thought she looked familiar but I don't join a lot of sites with the newest models on them. I then found out she's Dillon Harper who is one of the most popular models in porn. Anyway, I looked around for content of her and Videobox says it has 48 scenes of her.
So, I joined a few weeks ago and sure enough, they have 48 scenes of her. That is if you have Videobox, their PornPros add-on channel ($15), their Reality Kings add-on channel (which is where I first saw her), their Evil Angel add-on channel ($15). It might not seem like that bad since you would think those individual studios would maybe only have 2-4 scenes max but here's how it breaks down:
PornPros Channel has 14 of her.
Evil Angel Channel has 9 of her.
Reality Kings Channel which cannot be joined any longer has 3 of her.
Elegant Angel has 1.
So, of those 48 scenes, only 21 are available with a Videobox membership. It gets worse. Of those 21, 3 are the exact same scene listed as Natural Tits #23 scene 8, Don't Get Mad, I Fucked Your Dad #1 scene 2 and Young Freaks #3 scene 2. So, I'm down to 19 new scenes. There's two others that look like they've been doubled.
Meaning I went in thinking I was going to get 48 scenes of Dillon Harper but only got 15-16. As much as I want to keep complaining about this that's still a decent amount for the price but more so than that, it was so time-consuming and frustrating to sort through the scenes that weren't included with membership.
Videobox has and always has had every chance to be a dominant force in porn but the add-on channels are now dying off and they're still asking full price for them. I mean really, $35 a month for a Kink channel? You can join the Kink network for half of that and sometimes for a 1/3 of that and have access to thousands of more Kink scenes. It's not that I'm that bothered by the add-on channels as it is that their scenes are now mixed in the search results. Those add-ons have lowered the navigation of a site that already struggled in navigation.
There are positives including the amount of HD DVDs. They're showing having around 5,500 HD DVDs, that's almost 30,000 HD scenes ... but, those damned add-on channels content are included in those numbers.
I have been frustrated by their insistence to cater to their mainstream porn audience and that's still a problem. They added 10 "handjob" DVDs in 2017 but 4 of those are cumshot compilations that just happen to have handjobs in them. So, they averaged a handjob DVD per 2 months. The same 2 months that saw a total of 300 DVDs added. I think it all shows contentment on their behalf. Videosz made a run at them but they're now struggling and Videobox just sits there with their manipulated numbers to make them look even bigger than they are. Which is something they don't even need to do.
Despite all this negative and frustration, if you know who you're looking for, you can still get more content of them here than almost anywhere else. Here's a few examples:
Tanner Mayes 56 scenes, Alexis Texas 189 scenes, Sophie Dee 164 scenes, Bree Olson 59 scenes, Tori Black 113 scenes, Naomi Russell 134 scenes, Sunny Lane 49 scenes, and Nautica Thorn 165 scenes.
I used those because those are ones I had either deleted or lost and needed to get back. That's a lot of porn. But nearly each one had Evil Angel scenes in their scenes and if you're into the newer models most have Porn Pros Channel scenes in their scenes.
I even found a model who I haven't seen hardly no content of Priva, a Thai model and they have 19 scenes of her but 2 are Evil Angel, which is where I think I first saw her.
What I think is sad is that I can sit here and see all this potential but I know Videobox has been around for nearly 20 years and I have to think if they've not reached their potential after that long, they're not likely going to. I think it would take shutting the site down for a few months and doing major clean-ups to make a positive change even possible. As it is, I join it and have a list ready of who I'm looking for. Still recommended but only for those with patience and who are new to porn. |
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