Sexy Hub (0)
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
-Beautiful girls, mostly East European origin and natural with little or no plastic surgery in sight.
-Scenes are nicely shot with quality production values
-Straightforward navigation of content:
*by site - choose from Lesbea, Dane Jones, Mom XXX, Massage Rooms or Girlfriends.
*by model - can be listed in order of by most-liked, number of scenes starred in, name, or first letter of name; a model's page lists scenes starred in.
*random scene
*all scenes - can be listed in order of most recent, most liked, most viewed or by scene title.
-Can save models and scenes as favourites; can also save scenes as watch later - useful if you're unsure whether a scene should be a favourite.
-Many scenes are creampie, if you're into that.
-Good selection of girl-girl scenes, if that appeals.
-Can like or dislike a model or scene and post comments.
-Good video encoding quality at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 (but see cons) and other lower-res formats.
-Can view photos as slideshow or download as zip files. |
| Cons: |
-Download speeds are poor when not using a download manager - getting 1.3MB/sec vs 4.5MB/s with DL mgr.
-Choosing a scene streams it automatically with no option to disable other than pressing pause button.
-Flash player-based streaming is very unresponsive much of the time - forget about clicking around in the scene in order to check it out.
-Streaming performance is average to poor - takes a while to get loaded, is stuttery and navigating the scene takes ages.
-No video scene preview images to show content at various parts of the scene.
-Video download options aren't very clear.
-No support for browsing scenes by niche (e.g. model hair colour, threesome, girl-girl, etc) or using tags.
-Often too many lingering close ups rather than seeing more of the whole scene.
-Cannot download scenes if browsing using a smartphone - there was no download link visible when browsing with my iPhone. |
| Bottom Line: |
SexyHub network consists of the sites MomXXX (MILF 243 scenes), Dane Jones (mixed hardcore 279 scenes), Lesbea, Girlfriends (both girl-girl with 306 and 113 scenes) and Massage Rooms (226 scenes).
-Massage Rooms is the most limited in terms of content variety, with the massager rubbing the clit or cock, followed by oral sex, sometimes penetration, but usually cock masturbation with cumshot on his/her body, or sometimes cums inside the girl.
-MomXXX is high-quality MILF porn, with lots of older (in their 30's I'd guess) ladies in nice lingerie being sensually fucked by younger guys who often cum inside.
-Dane Jones is a mixture of girls young and older, with some but not much anal, and a couple of threesomes, but no DP.
-Lesbea and Girlfriends are lesbian sites, the difference between them being that Girlfriends has a more sex-tape feel to it: outdoor scenes, in cars, in bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms etc.
-Scenes are less porno than other hardcore sites (so more likely to appeal to a female audience) with plenty of kissing and sex in "natural" positions, with the performers convincingly looking like they're enjoying it.
-Generally, most of the boy-girl scenes end with internal pussy/anal cumshot or cum on her ass/pussy/back. Some scenes have the girl jerking the cock off onto his belly or onto her belly, chest or face. Very few of the cumshots are that impressive, sometimes a case of blink and you miss it.
-Photosets can downloaded as ZIP files containing small (1200x800), medium (2000x1334) and large (4000x2667) sizes.
-Quality site but with quite a number of shortcomings.
*Search option is somewhat hit and miss.
*Limited navigation options.
*Although scenes and models have a high number of like ratings, I didn't notice any comments for scenes which suggests not a very interactive user community.
*Flash player-based streaming is unresponsive much of the time. Often got warning messages from Firefox browser telling me that Flash Player had become unresponsive or had crashed. My computer has plenty of speed and memory so it's not underpowered and my broadband connection is 60Mbps download so very fast.
*Streaming performance is average and sometimes poor - takes a while to get loaded, is stuttery and navigating the scene can be just tedious.
*Could do with navigation preview thumbnails or at the very least screen shots showing the content at various parts of the scene - as it is you're forced to grapple with the video streaming to review the scene.
*Download options aren't very clear, being labelled as Low, Medium, High, PC_SD_MOV, PC_SD_WMV and PC_HD_WMV - the first three options are all MP4 with High being 1920x1080 in size and PC_HD_WMV at 1280x720, which some folk may prefer. The other options are all encoded at 480p at varying bitrates/quality. Newer scenes also have mobile SD and HD download options labelled as Low and High - it's a bit confusing, but the mobile High option is 1280x720 encoded at around 2Mbps, which may be useful for those who want smaller HD downloads as well as mobile device users.
-WMV HD is 1280x720 encoded at 8Mbps - overkill which means 1GB+ file sizes for a 30 minute scene though a few videos are encoded at a more reasonable 4Mbps, though the overly high bit-rate should mean very high quality, which may be important to some folk, especially as storage is cheap these days. Worth noting that MP4 HD is 1920x1080 and is also encoded at 8Mbps but quality looks fine. However I did notice at least one scene where the 1080p version was encoded at a lower bitrate than the 720p version, so clearly consistency isn't a strong point with this site.
*Some of the 720p versions of a scene have slightly larger file sizes than the 1080p version, so you may as well download the higher-res version!
*Most scenes are a bit samey and not much variety of positions, but that's more the nature of the site as being more "real" and less "porno".
-Generally the design of the web site seems to have been done without much thought to it's usability, notably the confusing video download options and the difficulty viewing a scene to decide whether or not to favourite it or download it, frustrating due to the unreliable streaming performance. Other sites such as 21Sextury and X-Art have much better streaming performance and scene navigation/previews, so it's not a big ask for this to be sorted out by the folks at Sexy Hub.
-There's a PU discount but be sure you pay the USD discount price if you're based in the UK or Europe, or you'll pay the USD figure in GBP or Euro which works out more expensive.
-One major plus is the range of billing customer service options, with live-chat available. Immediately after sign-up, my login didn't work but I managed to sort it out quickly via internet live-chat with a customer service agent, no email or phone-call needed.
-Overall a site worth joining for the content, but you'll need to allow a lot of time to browse the content to determine what are keepers. |
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