Bang.com (0)
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Loads of good content from various studios.
-Some exclusive to BANG!, such as BANG! Originals.
-Wide variety of hardcore genres, something for everyone here.
-Good search - flexible navigation options with scene screencaps.
-Scenes link to model, movie name, movie series and studio name.
-Can LIKE and post comments on videos.
-Videos have tags to aid search and content filtering.
-Can save videos and models to Favourites and playlists.
-Plenty of HD content and newer scenes available in 4K.
-Scenes can be streamed with flexible options provided.
-Can download scenes at various resolutions: 360p, 540p, 740p, 1080p and 2160p where available.
-Good download speeds with no limits and works with download managers.
-Login sessions take a long time to expire, which makes downloading easier.
-Some scenes have photosets which are downloadable as ZIP files.
-Membership seems to continue after subscription expires and you can still stream some (older) content. |
| Cons: |
-Only newer scenes have photosets.
-Content is not exclusive.
-Older content not available in HD (not a fault of the site but of the technology when the content was first shot).
-You can search for a model for whom no content exists - where's the point in that?.
-LIKEing a scene adds it to your favourites, causing some confusion.
-Some older HD content is unnecessarily encoded at very high bit rates (such 18Mb/s), meaning huge files, even though the content itself isn't that sharp or detailed and so doesn't benefit from a high bit rate.
-A lot of duplicate content with different scene names and titles, usually easy to spot as long as you browse scenes by model's name because the screencaps are the same or similar. I weeded out over 50GB of duplicate downloaded content, thanks to investing in a duplicate files finder.
-There's just too much content to easily digest! (though maybe not a bad thing).
-Advertising, though it's not too intrusive imho. |
| Bottom Line: |
-Bang.com is essentially a mega site, much like Videoz and Videobox - in fact some of the older content here I've previously seen on Videobox over 6 years ago. Some of the content is over 10 years old.
-I really like the navigation options: scenes have links to model(s), the movie the scene comes from, the series the movie belongs to and the studio, meaning that related content is very easy to browse if you find something you like - this makes it easier to find content you're interested in, for example, if I view a creampie scene that I like, it links to the movie called Creampie Girls Vol 4 listing all scenes, which in turn links to the series Creampie Girls which lists all the movies in the series. The only problem with that flexibility is that you can get lost and forget what you were originally looking at.
-You can browse models by country, though you have to click on a model's details first to get the country link.
-Whilst most content in encoded at reasonable bit rates, I found quite a lot of HD content that's encoding at higher bit rates than is reasonable. I identified them and re-encoded them and saved over 22GB of disk space! This might not bother you in this age of cheap storage, but it's worth mentioning.
-You can navigate the vast content via channels like Hot Step Moms, 18 and Abused, 18 and Black, and so on.
-A lot of the content is very hot and there's a variety of genres, including shemale, BDSM, plenty of gangbang and most other hardcore genres you can think of.
-Streaming the content is very flexible: use the left and right arrow keys for going back or forward 10 seconds, spacebar to pause/play, up/down arrow to increase or lower the volume and M to mute. A top tip if you're streaming just to quickly preview the scene before downloading it: click on the cog icon on the right-hand side of the progress bar and choose a lower bitrate (say 720p if you're watching a 1080p scene) to make the streaming faster and less prone to buffering/pauses.
-The fact that your actual membership of BANG! continues after your subscription expires is brilliant and a very canny decision by whoever runs the web site, after all if you can preview scenes that you want to download, you're more likely to start a new subscription.
-Overall: good value for money and worth joining, though you may need more than a month to digest everything BANG! has to offer. |
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