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| 11-02-10 06:42am - 4938 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
For Excitement - Always Newest Stuff - What About Archives? I suppose this could have been a poll question, but for whatever reason, I decided to plop it in the forum. I was wondering how many people go deep into the archives with sites that they join versus looking at the newest stuff. I've got to say that there are many sites that I have been a member of where I have not plumbed much of the archives at all. I look at the updates and recent posts of new material and don't get very far into the depth of the site during my membership. There are other sites - and this seems to be with solo-girl sites more than with other sites - where I'll be very interested in the archives. I think it has something to do with the fact that with solo-girl sites, it's easier to get a handle on the best period for the model - there is an ebb and flow to everything - and any solo-girl model that I'm interested in has periods when she looked absolutely stunning and periods when she didn't look quite as stunning or wasn't using the best photographer or got a shitty haircut when she hooked up for a site - which might affect dozens of sets. It's harder to do that with a site like 1-by-day for me. | |
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| 11-02-10 09:11am - 4938 days | #2 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I very seldom go back farther than a couple of years when I join a site because the material found in the archives is usually of inferior quality when compared to today's. It does make sense to go back if one collects a certain model, then one will most likely be willing to put up with 600x800px pictures as one example, but I don't, so I usually start at a time when they introduced HD videos or High Resolution pictures. | |
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| 11-02-10 10:08am - 4938 days | #3 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
I just go through the model listings A - Z and download any material that appeals.  Yes, I am that methodical & thorough.  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 11-02-10 10:10am - 4938 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I don't usually select videos or pictures by the most recent updates. There are some sites where the contents are listed in reverse chronological order, so those sites I will go by most recent to least recent in selecting videos/photosets to look at. But my preferred method is to look for models that I think are attractive, and to look at whatever material that model has at that site. I look at the date the material was posted, to put it in order of looking at the model over time. So at a site like MetArt, Femjoy, MPLStudios, etc., where there is a large amount of archived material, my preferred method of searching out material is to find models that I think are attractive, and to look at all of their material at that site. Thankfully, the sites I mentioned make it easy to find all or most of the material of a particular model. I am much less concerned about the resolution than messmer. As long as the pictures are erotic, interesting, whatever, I don't need high resolution. Actually, the old Playboy photos of their Playmates are plenty enjoyable for me, because many of the models are lovely, and the photography (by the photographer) is high quality. | |
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| 11-02-10 10:22am - 4938 days | #5 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Both PP and messmer said it: PP - I go back to the archives after checking out the updates first. And sometimes - or maybe quite a few times - I find that some of that older material is no longer in my stash - deleted by accident or just deleted voluntarily...and then I suddenly realize: Hey, I liked that set or that vid.. Not all sites have that, though - but the 'better ones'... Messmer - you're right about the inferior quality of some older stuff/material. But now and then you find that some of the 'good ol' sites has updated/reedited the vids/sets.........just for one right now: I'm glad I really been digging deep down at the older Nubiles material again - found some of my favorites now in much better quality (deleted the old files and saved the new ones). "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 11-02-10 10:46am - 4938 days | #6 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
What if that material is 800x600 and you have a new wide screen 21" monitor, lk2fireone? Does it not bother you that the picture now looks blurred? Or do you watch it in 800x600 rather than in full screen? I have my viewer set so it displays the full picture vertically and there is a definite difference when it comes to high resolution and the old material. Super High Resolution on the other hand I don't really need, at least not at the moment, I think of the future when I download those sets. | |
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| 11-02-10 11:44am - 4938 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I mainly use a laptop for my porn. The monitor is an LCD 15.6". Pictures that are a lower resolution don't really look blurred, to me. Higher definition photos don't look any sharper in normal viewing. The way to distinguish a higher definition photo from a lesser definition photo is if I examine a photo by enlarging it, so that I am only viewing a part of the entire photo on the monitor. That is when you can see that a photo has greater definition, because the details are more precise, less blurry, when you enlarge the photo so that only part of the photo is shown on the screen. But when you view a photo in normal mode, the entire photo being shown on the full screen, there is no visible difference between a regular resolution photo and an ultra-high resolution photo. I download photosets at the highest resolution available. But the truth is, I am wasting a lot of disk space doing that. A photoset that is 100 MB is just as good as the same photoset that is 400 MB or 1 GB. If I were making posters of these photosets, then I would need the highest resolution possible. Because then the difference in the resolution becomes very apparent in a printed posted. But on a 15.6" LCD monitor, there is no visible difference when viewing the photo in the regular way. You have to enlarge the photo, viewing only part of the photo to fill the entire screen, for the difference in resolution to become apparent. I am assuming the photo was taken properly, in focus, well lighted, etc. But even higher resolution won't make an out-of-focus photo appear to be in focus. The difference in resolution is more apparent in videos than in photos. For videos, the higher the resolution, the more defined the moving picture you are watching, the better. More defined, more clarity, I don't know the proper terminology, but you get the idea. Higher resolution means better clarity for a video, and the difference is easily seen. But for photos, the difference is not easily seen, unless you are making a poster, or you are examining the photo by magnifying it. That is my understanding, anyway. I look at a photoset sized 100 MB, and the same photoset sized 1 GB, and there is no visible difference in the photos. That is, viewing them in the normal manner. I do view all my photos normally in full screen. I sometimes watch videos in partial screen instead of full screen, because, as I said, the difference in resolution makes a big difference in the clarity of the video. And watching a lower resolution video in a smaller window makes the clarity seem better. Full screen video needs a much higher level of definition. Edit01: I download all videos at the highest definition, because the viewing difference is so apparent between higher and lower definition. And I don't mind the extra space taken by high definition, because I can see the difference so easily. Edited on Nov 02, 2010, 12:01pm | |
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| 11-02-10 12:14pm - 4938 days | #8 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Okay, the smaller monitor would explain it. And you are right in everything else you write. If I have one set that is Hi Res and another one that is Ultra High Res I don't see the difference either if I want to see the whole picture on my monitor and not study it pore by pore. As I said, I basically download Ultra Hi Res for one reason only: the future which will bring ever larger monitors for desk tops, and the fact that the set would look great on an LCD or Plasma TV screen when I finally get one that allows me to do that. At the moment I have a 27" LCD HD TV but can't do anything else but watch TV with it. My son-in-law has a 42" Samsung and his Hi Res vacation pictures look spectacular on that. I can always dream! But TVs aside, I had many picture sets on my hard drive from a couple of years ago that I had marked FV (for favorite) or KP (for keep)and they bit the dust recently because it was no longer a joy to watch them. It was a sad day but better than the aggravation of seeing everything that used to look so good on a smaller monitor blurred all of a sudden!  Maybe I should have got myself a lap top and kept looking at them through that!  | |
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| 11-02-10 12:20pm - 4938 days | #9 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I'm actually pretty methodical too, generally going through all the content unless I'm really short on time or the old stuff has inferior quality. For whatever reason, most navigation systems seem to make it difficult to go to the older content. They always feature the newest updates (to be expected) but it seems like a lot of sites hide their old stuff away or have a navigation system that seems to take you back to the main page; having to re-click several times to get back to the golden oldies you were looking over. For whatever reason I dislike going through the model directory which would probably solve the navigation issues I see. I guess I just don't trust a lot of model directories to be complete when I know the tried and true method of searching each page of each category works. For me, digging through the achieves is part of the enjoyment I get from looking at and collecting "naughty" pictures. Maybe I'm just vicariously transferring my enjoyment to an activity that sites could easily remedy with a decent navigation and tagging system. | |
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| 11-02-10 06:01pm - 4937 days | #10 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I have a 23" monitor - I definitely prefer to look at older material in its original form. ALS does their remastered stuff and it usually looks like shit to me at the high res setting, looks much better smaller, so that's what I do. | |
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| 11-02-10 06:35pm - 4937 days | #11 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I think I just found out the reason why so many are into those small hand-held gadgets. Just like you, they don't mind small. To me bigger is better and for that you need at least HI-RES!  Long live diversity!  | |
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| 11-02-10 06:40pm - 4937 days | #12 | |
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Goldfish (0)
Active User  Posts: 265 Registered: Jan 19, '08 Location: Boston, MA |
I do tend to dig into the older material when I join a site. If the site is only a few years old I'll go through the whole thing. With more mature sites I'll probably go through all the content but keep less as the quality goes down with age. This is typically at the three year point -- though I recently re-joined Sapphic Erotica and it's amazing how good their video quality is all the way back to '05. | |
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| 11-02-10 10:29pm - 4937 days | #13 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
If the site has decent navigation, I will go through the older stuff pretty thoroughly, if their navigation is poor I tend to give up after I start getting frustrated. So perhaps this is good motivation for sites to have annoying navigation, maybe they'd save on bandwidth? Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 11-03-10 06:16pm - 4936 days | #14 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I will first take a look at the new content but I love to visit the archives beause you often find scenes that a model did at the beginning of her career that she stopped doing after that. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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