Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
*High class video productions
*Good variety of EU and US models
*Simple navigation
*Different fetish themes to chose from
Cons:
*NO true 1080p videos despite advertising
*Too expensive (€34,5)
*No individual filenames
*No update history
*No special / extra deals
Bottom Line:
Harmonyvision is a glam core video site, featuring scenes from high quality movie procudtions. As of today (12-23-2012), there are 32 movies available, spplit up into 144 individual scenes. There is no update history.
There are 4 different download options to chose from:
SD Low 720x404 @993kBit/s
SD High 720x404 @993kBit/s
HD 1040x584 @ 2429kBit/s
Full HD 1080p 1280x720 @ 2990kBit/s
All videos are ready for streaming in said resolutions.
There are NO picure sets available for download!
The bad news right at the beginning:
The "Full HD 1080p" videos are *NOT* full HD in the true meaning of the word (i.e. 1920x1080)! They are just standard 1280x720 videos, which, in my books, is as close to a fals pretense as you can get. It's especially cheeky, considering the high price of €34,95. So, again, if you want true 1080p scenes, this site won't give it you.
Apart from that (rather major) issue, the videos are well shot with good lighting and a variety of well known EU and US models to chose from. The movies are all pretty artsy glam porn stuff, lots of latex, leather and masks. You will find a good ammount of mild fetish stuff on this site if that's what floats your boat.
Navigation of the site is simple and plain, no unneccessary features or anything. However, during the registration process, you DO NOT get an on-screen message with your login details. All you get is a "you're registered" message. So MAKE SURE you entered the right email address during registration. Also, when you enter harmonyvision.com, you have to click through some kind of portal gate, containing the three stiffia network sites. It's just an extra click, but I find it annoying.
During my first couple of days as a member, I ran into a number of connection problems. Some times, I only had like 30-60KB/s download speed (wchih means about 7 hours dl time for one 1GB file). At other times, the speed was ok, although it seems to be capped at 8MBit. Since I'm not entirely sure if the problem was on their or on my side, I won't let this influence my score. Howeber, I'll keep an eye on this issue and post a comment if something changes.
The site does not support resumed downloading (tested with IDM). Each file you downloadcomes with the same filename, there is no specification of the scene you are downloading. File size for the fake "Full HD 1080p" files are between 500MB and 1,3GB.
Bottom line: Harmonyvision has a lot to offer. Unfortunately, it doesn't keep their promises. Advertising 1080p videos and offering 1280x720 instead is unacceptable in my opinion. This, in combination with the unusually high price decreases my score, which would otherwise be somewhere in the 80s.
If you can live with the lower resolution, there are a lot of high quality scenes to chose from.
[EDIT: removed the 8MBit download cap from the Con list]
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
[+] Price: low monthly price
[+] Trial: full access
[+] Bonus: access to Anabolicvip.com
Cons:
[-] Quantity: small archive - 6/10
[-] Updates: rarely updated - 4/10
[-] Videos: limited options - 6/10
[-] Photos: not a ton - 6/10
[-] Navigation: very poor - 3/10
Bottom Line:
I've known this website for a couple of years now and to tell you the truth, it hasn't changed a lot! When it first came out it seemed promising and perhaps many fans seen it as an Anabolicvip.com extension but I think most of us were disappointed in the end...
From the first time I joined Anabolic.com to now, I didn't notice a lot of changes. They haven't added many updates, the navigation and design remained the same as well as the content and the models list. Nothing new, exciting or exclusive has been added to this website to make it more interesting and competitive.
First of, the navigation is disastrous and the design isn't quite what today's web designer are capable of. For example, you need to manually modify a specific code variable at the end of the address bar in order to view all the photos of a given gallery! There are no "Next" and "Previous" links at the bottom of each gallery page so you only get access to the first let's say 20 or 30 photos. After that, if you want to continue, you'll have to enter a bigger number at the end of the address bar so next time you refresh the page, that number will be the number of thumbs you can click on. I usually would put 1000 to make sure I can see all of a gallery photos. Most galleries contain 50 to 200 photos but some may have up to 500 photos. There are around 2 or 3 pages of galleries, each page containing about 50 galleries which in my opinion is not enough. Not much to say about the photo quality other than it's not high quality and mid sized. I would say the pixel dimensions ranges from 800 x 600 to 1024 x 768.
The videos section gives few previews of the scenes available for download or streaming as each scene is represented by a very small "scene beginning" screen shot image so you have to enter the scene download page to realize that you may downloaded it into one single file or scene parts but the quality remains poor. About streaming, I think you can watch videos in your browser if I'm correct but it still very limited.
As for the content itself, it's almost hardcore such as straight sex, DPs, threesomes and lesbians. There is some softcore videos and photos but quite few. The main studio approach seems gonzo orientated which isn't a bad thing but they need to add more updates and more often too.
I had to give this website a bad score because it simply deserves it! Among all the cons mentioned above, the only pros I can think of are the low monthly price, the full access trial and the full access to Anabolicvip.com bonus (which isn't mentioned when you sign up and I guess it's more of a glitch than anything else but let me tell you that Anabolicvip.com isn't better). Anabolic.com seems to have died a while ago. I wouldn't recommend this website even the trial access.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
None
Cons:
Worst navigation I've ever seen.
Complete rip off in terms of library accessibility. They advertise all of their different series, then once you're inside, its a few or none of a series. And then only selected scenes. Nasty Nymphos is a series with over 35 volumes, not one is included for streaming or download. However, Nasty Nymphos is prominently displayed on the tour page to entice you to join.
Again, sites where they randomly and selectively pick and choose what of their library is available......SUCK!!! The highest profile companies, Lethal hardcore and Hustler for example dont do that. If they sold it, its on the site, available for viewing and download in its entirety....none of this random bs.
Bottom Line:
I have never felt so violated in my life than by anabolic. The site is antiquated and obsolete. I was unable to view a single video, either, "stream unavailable" or buffering.....I hope no one spends another dime on this site. Dispicable. I cant state it in clear enough terms. DON'T DO IT. I took a chance cause there is a scene from Nasty Nymphos 8 that I was hoping to download.....I had read other reviews which warned that the entire library was not available, but I rolled the dice, thinking even if the scene I wanted was there, I'd find some content worth the $5.99 investment.....Nope. Nothing........the overall score of 68 should have been a warning, but again, I took a chance and want to warn you that unless you enjoy throwing away your money....dont do it!!!!
I can't state it any more clearly, the worst site I have ever encountered and I have/or had memberships at brazzers, NA, allrealitypass, realitykings, bangbros, sapphic, twistys, videobox, pornstar.com., lethalhardcore, filthfreaks to name a few and they all are excellent or at least some redeeming value....Anabolic? all I can say is don't do it to yourself, never been angrier at myself for wasting money!!!!!
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
They have videos and they can be streamed and/or downloaded.
Cons:
Lots of them.
1) Poor quality videos (I ended up not saving any)
2) Poor quality streaming.
3) Deceptively small site; the ads make it look like it has a lot of anabolic vids. Instead it doesn't.
4) Really bad navigation. Since the site was so small, it wasn't a real pain.
Bottom Line:
Don't go for the monthly. If at all, stick with the 5.99 trial and then cancel.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
Good quality 720P video on some scenes
Large number of videos
Membership includes 8 sites of different niches (Fisting, teens, lesbo, dildo, milf, pissing, pussy pump)
The included pussy pump website features pretty unique content
Nice looking Russian and EE babes
Decent download speeds
Cons:
It looks like at least some of the video has been upscaled from DVD to 720P and at low bitrate.
Quite a bit of non-exclusive content (Mainly from Sweet Pictures Rough & Beyond and Shameless series of DVD's as far as I can tell)
Average of only 10 pictures per scene and no zips
Near nonexistent description of most scenes. 80% of scenes don't even give the actress name.
Only 1 - 2 updates per week
Expensive
Audio on some scenes seems to be overdubbed in English. Other scenes have Czech or German dialog.
Bottom Line:
OK, I will admit it, the only reason I joined was because Super Mega Extreme Gaporama Babe "Alysa" stars in 4 scenes. For me that alone was worth every penny of the membership fee. Once I had downloaded those 4 scenes and started looking at the rest of what was on offer I find it hard to recommend for long term membership.
The content is mostly good but if you own DVD's from Sweet Pictures, you will see a lot of recycled content. Although the network contains 8 sites (plus 1 streaming site), the individual sites don't really have much of an identity with a lot of cross-over between them.
I didn't put this in the pro / con section as it is too subjective, but a lot of the content is pretty extreme even by Dutch / German standards.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
-Newer scenes are brand new (seeing them as the DVDs are being released).
-New and some classic Anabolic scenes.
-A few different download options (full scene, quarter-scene clips, and multi-clip scenes in both wmv and mpg) & good speed for downloads.
-No DRM like their old site, AnabolicVIP.com.
Cons:
-Poorly designed site, confusing and plain.
-Varying video quality is a major issue and broken-links to downloads is irritating.
-No update schedule; looks like there was a scene added daily; handfull a month now.
-For a company with such a large library of work, there isn't very much content to the site.
-Though it says there is a network of sites, the main Anabolic site has it all.
-No pictures or screenshots to download or view.
-Customer service & support could be better.
-Doesn't have the movies Anabolic fans would expect to see (like old Initiations or Gangbang Girl scenes).
Bottom Line:
I canceled early because I didn't want to risk another charge, and instead of giving me the full month, they immediately froze me out (I've never seen that happen before). *Personal note*
The website and it's menus are just plain. The "network" just separates the scenes into niches; Anabolic.com has all the scenes itself. No downloadable pics at all. Has very little of the content AnabolicVIP had. A small amount overall (No more DRM though).
The video quality was either really good or terrible (bad aspect ratios, low quality, no full scenes). Searching isn't user friendly. See their sister-site, Diabolic.com, for how this site should look. I expect better from them. NEEDS WORK, NOT WORTH THE COST RIGHT NOW.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Has porn.
Cons:
OLD videos, bad quality, difficult navigation, ZERO pictures, no help at all.....
Bottom Line:
Forget it! Anabolic make some of the best DVDs around, but here we have a bunch of ancient-looking videos (are any of these girls in porn anymore?), no pictures and the bonus sites are just as bad. No thanks.
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