VideoBox (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- It is one of the biggest porn sites in the world. Great place for a new porn collector to start their collection.
- This membership had a purpose and it maybe shows a strength often overlooked at Videobox. Will explain.
- 21,500 DVDs, 100,000+ scenes and decent navigation.
- 97 niches, the main reason I have bumped my score up and made the return to a site I thought I was done with.
- 2,718 DVDs in HD quality, 13,305 HD scenes.
- Continues to offer a feature I rarely if ever see on other sites, the custom clip feature where you can download only the part or parts of the video you want.
- The $12 price gives Videobox one of the highest values.
- Download speeds are good (75-80% of my max).
- If you like their add-on channels, you can wait until the last few days of your Videobox membership and add the channels at a prorated price. Will go into that in the BL too.
- 5 new DVDs, 15-20 scenes per day. |
| Cons: |
- You ever thought about walking into a massive store with bargain bin porn DVDs? There are a lot of those here.
- Their marketing interest in releasing 5 DVDs per day has led to a lot of overlapping scenes. There is one scene of Eva Angelina that is on there 4 times from 4 different DVDs.
- The channel add-ons are not updating as much as they were(some aren't at all) in the past and they range from $15 to $35 each if you add them at the beginning of your membership. |
| Bottom Line: |
I really didn't think I would ever join Videobox again. I had the majority of DVD scenes I wanted and since I no longer collect many specific models, it just didn't seem like a site I would be back to.
A long time ago, I saw a scene of Eva Lawrence (spelling could be way off, I have seen it 3 different ways). It is a "handjob" scene but she sits on the guy's stomach and does the earliest variation of the cameltoe slide I remember seeing. I did not have it in my collection. I had seen it on a tube site with the title "The Big Tease #2". I looked on Google and Videobox not only has The Big Tease #2 but also #1 and The Big Tease #4. Every scene on these DVDs has a tease of the cameltoe slide or similar. Each DVD has 8 scenes, that is 24 scenes of a niche I haven't had much success finding. Those alone at 50 cents each easily make a join worth $12.
Once inside, they have another DVD series called, "Stroke, Suck and Tease" and it features similar teases I have been looking for. They have 10 DVDs from that series and those have 10 scenes on each DVD. That's 124 scenes when combining the first ones equaling less than 10 cents a scene. I was looking in the similar/recommended scenes and they had 3 DVDs in the CFNM Partying series. These are extremely rare. One of those features one of Europe's prettiest models ever in Aleska Diamond, dressed, teasing, giving a handjob and sex with her clothes still on. It's true, Aleska now has implants and they are shown in this scene but it is still rare content. I almost wonder if the scenes on these are unused or licensed content from Fully Clothed Sex.
I ended up downloading 429 scenes total. So much for not having a reason to come back, right?
The navigation is still hit or miss. Some models aren't tagged in their scenes. Some are wrongly tagged.
What is standing out to me is a lot of these scenes are 5-10 years old or more. It was before studio porn became an assembly line of scenes with little variance. I also did the Vivid and Evil Angel channels in the last 3 days of the membership. Those were $1.50 each to add thanks to the prorating. They had a few Vivid scenes I haven't been able to find on Vivid's own site.
It is making Videobox more than just a DVD site. This is where those scenes are that you forgot about. A new porn user could easily download multiple Terabytes of scenes.
It is the niches that brought me back. I have no idea how they can come up with 97 niches but they have and it is also something that is lost in newer studio porn. The sites these days are set on giving their scenes a theme and every scene they make follows that theme. Here, you can find a much bigger variety.
It is worth mentioning the nearly 3,000 HD DVDs for those interested in newer content.
Could it be possible that the porn industry's current interest in releasing the same type of scenes day after day could be a way to strengthen a site like Videobox that was previously dropping off? What I mean by that is like the XEmpire Network where HardX, DarkX, EroticaX and LesbianX are so set in sticking to their title their scenes become clinical feeling.
I just randomly picked a studio for that example but it is how many sites/networks are becoming. Here on Videobox you can have 195 scenes of enema action (sorry, had to), 109 scenes of Mardi Gras, 1,277 of Older Men with Younger Women, 268 in prison (can't make this up), 1,015 public scenes, 259 of strippers, even 82 of midgets, 104 of twins, and the more standard porn niches like 63,000+ scenes with oral, 30,000+ of anal, even 393 of double anal and 7,000+ of DPs.
To one extent maybe I am being a little mocking but when the quality of current porn sites using cookie cutter porn reaches the level it has, Videobox is a much better value.
I will go back to my first con. If we could go into a store with stacks and stacks of bargain bin porn we would all be able to find something that interested us. Especially if they have 97 different niches in those DVDs. The newer DVDs do seem to be of "higher quality" with HD options in the download section but I watched a few of those and the only improvement I see is in the technical quality. If you're like me you will also see a lot of models you forgot about. A few for me include: Mason Storm (60 scenes), Cherokee (140 scenes) and Gauge (26 scenes).
It doesn't surprise me that I had a complete flip on my feelings towards Videobox. I always preferred the early 2000s Vivid scenes when looking at DVDs. It just seems it is now happening with all studios. The models were more into their scenes in 2005-2010 than they are in 2019. There is very little competition for Videobox. I can't let 25% lower technical quality hurt 50% better produced and performed scenes. |
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