VideoBox (0)
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- The biggest porn DVD site on the internet and one of the cheapest when joining through Porn Users at $12/month.
- Five full DVD updates per day.
- Their definition of HD includes anything 720p or higher resolution. Based on it, roughly 25% of their DVDs are HD quality.
- What tags they have are actually pretty good
- Premium channels are the big draw for me. Will detail them below in bottom line.
- If you like late 90s, early 2000s porn, a Videobox membership combined with the Vivid channel is probably the best buy in porn.
- Download speeds can vary, but are usually consistent. The variances happen at certain times each day and sometimes it's actually faster, other times way slower.
- My download manager works well (free download manager), but I limit how many files it downloads to 20 at a time so not to risk download links timing-out.
- A generally easy to use site, easy to cancel, unless you do something I do, then canceling can be frustrating. Explanation in bottom line. |
| Cons: |
- Back years ago, I was convinced that VB was steadily trying to improve their site. Not so anymore. I think they have settled into a mass porn site and have no intentions of making themselves any worse or any better.
- Video quality is inconsistent. They'll have a "HD" scene that is 720p with a 1,500 bitrate. While also calling a 720p scene with an 8,000 bitrate "HD". I could just call this being sloppy and careless since it's what it is.
- Pricing is good unless you want the premium channels and join them early in your Videobox membership. See bottom line.
- Loads of newly added DVDs that are full of scenes already on the site under different names. Gives the impression of recycling content, but I think they're just ... sloppy and careless. I have one Eva Angelina scene, four different times and none are the same length. I don't even know who to blame for those, the producers milking a scene or Videobox bloating their numbers. |
| Bottom Line: |
This was at one time one of my favorite sites. I still think it's an excellent site for new members and for those who like that late 90s, early 2000s era porn. Their newer DVDs are good, but the majority fall into the cookie-cutter porn genre, seen one you've seen them all type of porn. That's where the premium channels come in. These are the premium channels with their prices if you add them on the first day of your Videobox subscription:
Evil Angel $15 - You can get a full subscription to Evil Angel for the same price using the PU discount, it's a much better deal.
Reality Kings $15 - Roughly the same price as you can get from PU, and it's a better deal than the add-on channel.
Kink $35 - Pretty unique channel, it's sort of a best of or compilation of Kink's various sites, it's a great addition, but I hold off until the prorated price brings the cost below $10.
Soft On Demand $35 - Typical Japanese site with mostly censored/blurred pubic areas. It's okay, join it for the last week of your VB subscription if you're interested in Japanese porn.
Elegant Angel $15 - It's a good deal if you like Elegant Angel, but I've never joined it.
Club Tranny $15 - Maybe a good buy for those interested in this genre.
Vivid $15 - Great add-on, to my knowledge it's the biggest collection of downloadable Vivid DVDs on the internet. Vivid's site didn't have downloads when I was last a member on it (about 9 months ago), so this is a really good deal if you like Vivid.
I admit, I'm a cheapskate when it comes to Videobox. I wait until half of my Videobox subscription is over then join Vivid. This gives you a prorated price of $7.50. I then join Kink when there's less than a week left on my Videobox subscription which gets the price below $10. This is the problem with this method:
If you cancel your main Videobox subscription then decide to add say Vivid or Kink or both or any of the other add-on channels, it reopens your Videobox subscription. Or better said, it cancels out your cancellation of Videobox. It goes like this:
Videobox canceled on 11/22/2015, membership lasts until 12/3/2015.
Vivid channel added on 11/29/2015
Videobox renews on 12/3/2015.
I would be complaining more about that, but I don't think it's an attempt to rip-off customers as much as it is ... sloppy and careless. You just have to go back and cancel Videobox each time you add a new channel if added after your initial cancellation.
Overall, Videobox has little to offer me anymore except being the gateway to those premium channels. For a new member, I think it's a great place to start your porn collection. The quality can vary greatly even if it says a scene is HD, you really don't know what the quality is until you download it. You can kind of guess by looking at file size, but they don't list bitrates on any of their scenes.
The search engine has become all but useless. Even going directly to your favorite stars pages can be misleading. I've thought I'd downloaded every scene for a model only to see 2-3 scenes listed in the recommended scenes that aren't listed with the model. The premium channels cause a problem here too since the search results will give you results all across Videobox and all their premium channels. This is one that has bothered me for years. If you search "Taylor Hayes", a late 90s, early 2000s superstar model, she will be listed in dozens of scenes, but most are on the Vivid channel.
They do offer a package of 5 premium channels for an extra $50 a month, which is certainly cheaper than their current rates on those channels, but it's still pretty costly.
Downloading from the site is no longer as easy as it used to be. I use free download manager. With it, I can click and drag a link into it. Each time I do it on Videobox it says, "Select preference". I hate to be an ass, but didn't I select my preference when I clicked the format I wanted to drag to my download manager?
While Videobox is still one of the better values in porn, it's also becoming one of the more frustrating and annoying sites in porn as well. There's also the problem with videos playing while you're trying to load your download manager and you rarely have taken the time to mute those videos so expect everyone in your house to wonder who's having sex.
You could do far worse than Videobox, but it's time for Videobox to give up its crown as the best porn DVD site. I also have a membership to Videosz and will review it soon. Videobox might be depending too much on their premium channels to deliver non-mainstream porn.
I joined for one main reason. I couldn't find my Videobox external hard drive following a move. I downloaded my favorite scenes, most of which were on Vivid and added a 100 GB or so of Kink content. My current Videobox folder is smaller than those and it's why I rated it 80. If you're new to VB then add 10 points to the score. Recommended for new members and those who have lost their favorite scenes. |
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