| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Large studio site
- Popular studio
- A-list models
- Older videos available
- Downloads and streaming
- Updates weekly
- All popular niches available |
| Cons: |
- Videos start streaming automatically
- Many DVDs are missing scenes
- Not a great tag system
- Not exclusive (LH videos are on other sites)
- Lots of fake breasts
- No easy way to cancel
- No TBP discount |
| Bottom Line: |
I’m a big fan of many of the studio sites but for some reason I’ve never joined Lethal Hardcore before this. That might be because LH DVDs are available on so many different websites that it didn’t make sense to join the studio site. But in the interests of getting some new porn I figured I’d take the plunge.
Lethal Hardcore is a mainstream porn studio and like most mainstream porn studios they try to cover as many niches as possible. That’s good because one site can have many niches that a member likes but it’s also bad because it can mean that you have no interest in a lot of the porn on the site. An example is that I prefer 18-20 year old models with small breasts and a well-served niche on this site is fuller-figured women with large breasts, both natural and fake. But I can’t complain because the site still offers a lot for the money.
As a mainstream studio, LH hires the A-list models of the day. If you have a favorite mainstream porn model from any time of the past 15 years you’ll likely find her here.
If the upload dates are accurate then this site has been around since 1999. I’m a little skeptical about that since the video quality of those old videos is actually pretty good. It’s possible that the site remastered the scenes at some point though. It’s a definite plus to have scenes this old that are of this quality. The oldest scenes are available at 1920x1080 with 5000kb/s and 29fps. While that sounds great you have to remember that these would have been shot on videotape or with low resolution cameras so these older scenes really don’t look as good as the specs suggest they should. (A real plus for this site is that they do offer their back catalogue of titles. Some other studio sites don’t so that. This is great for those of us who have been collecting porn for a long time as it gives us a chance to see some of our favorites from years ago.)
The newest videos are available with those same specs (1920x1080 with 5000kb/s and 29fps) but given that they’re shot with modern cameras they look like you’d expect them to look.
All of the scenes have three download options which are labeled HQ, Stream and Mobile. None of the scenes have any specs listed with those options. The ‘Stream” videos are 1280x720 with 1500kb/s and 29fps. The “Mobile” videos are 640x360 with 500kb/s and 29fps.
One complaint about the page where the scene can be downloaded is that the scene will begin to stream automatically when you load the page. So be warned and make sure your speakers are turned down if you don’t want anyone wondering what you’re watching.
Another negative, and this is something that other studio sites seem to do as well, is that some of the DVDs are missing scenes. This is especially apparent when the model on the box cover doesn’t have a scene uploaded.
One last quibble is that the primary biller is a site called customercare.co. That’s a biller that doesn’t allow a member to cancel a recurring subscription easily as billers like CC Bill and Epoch do. You’re left emailing them to ask that the membership be cancelled so make sure to get started on that early to avoid a charge you don’t want.
The site does have a search function but that seems to only give scenes rather than DVDs. There is a list of common niches on the left of the screen that are useful for sorting. But a site of this size with such a range of porn really needs to have a better search and tag system.
Both the site and the studio are active and a new DVD is added each week. There are currently 636 DVDs available with an average of four scenes per DVD. That’s good value for your porn dollars. The DVDs appear to be current and not just rehashed stuff from years ago since the models are current.
The site allows download managers but it doesn’t allow pausing and resuming so if your download stops for whatever reason it will have to be started from the beginning again.
The site has a lot going for it but it isn't really a standout. The porn is good but Lethal Hardcore videos are available elsewhere so it doesn’t make a membership here an essential addition to any collection. The video resolutions available here are certainly better than what you’d find at sites like Videobox though. Overall I’d recommend it since it is good porn and the site itself offers a good value even though there is no TBP discount. |
