DVD Box (0)
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+Large library of movies
+All of Matrix Content movies are provided in high quality; more scenes are offered than what is available on official site
+Regular update schedule (2 movies/day)
+Cheap!!! $7.95/mo? WHOAAAA
+Several qualities of WMV available
+Download button changes to "Already downloaded" after you have downloaded a scene. Good for future visits.
+Site search function
+Much improved layout from older days
+Flash streaming available
+Took the time to remaster all older videos
+Extremely HQ images of the movie covers provided, higher than any other movie site (VideosZ, VideoBox, etc.)
+Upcoming additions page maintains a very long list of future additions, more than any other site I've seen.
+Good download speeds. |
| Cons: |
-Search function is not all that good. I will find myself using Google with the "site:dvdbox.com" operator more often than using the DVDBox site search function
-You will find a good amount of overlap, although there is a good amount of stuff you won't find on other movie archive sites (which is just the nature of these sites)
-The more popular download managers do not work with this site thanks to its PHP downloading system. But, Free Download Manager works with the site, I'm just not a big fan it but will use it for sites like DVDBox.
-They are worse than other movie sites in maintaining accurate cast lists and with tagging performer names on scenes (I'm still looking for a site that maintains near 100% accuracy).
-No sister Gay/Trans/Shemale site, thus all those particular movies are mixed in.
-All videos have watermarks which oddly say "Perfectwi.com", not "DVDBox.com"
-HQ movies are stretched to 720x480. |
| Bottom Line: |
Excellent buy, highly recommended. I place this site as my #2 site behind VideoBox. The only thing holding it back is the library size, which, unfortunately, is not really threatening to overtake VideoBox (because of the addition rate being 3 fewer movies per day). Even with the smaller library, the overlap with VideoBox is actually not as high as say VideosZ is with VideoBox. And for $7.95/mo (I just checked and it says $7.95) you can't beat the price, especially since you are sort of getting two sites in one: DVDBox and MatrixContent (or Matrix HD, whichever). DVDBox, as mentioned in the PROS, has all of the Matrix Content videos that the official site has in higher quality than the official site (they actually have more videos than the official site to tell you the truth). $7.95/mo is a steal for this site.
A few negatives really stand out, though. First, the HQ movies are 720x480. I can't stand when sites don't provide 640x480, rather choosing 720x480. Do they not see that the image clearly looked stretched? Second, the inability to use my preferred download manager (FlashGet). PHP-based downloading systems are meant to thwart massive leeching, but it is annoying when you just want to queue up a couple scenes. Free Download Manager actually works with their site, I just don't prefer to use that program. Lastly, the poor search function. I do a search for a performer on the site and it doesn't return anything, but when I go to Google and search "site:dvdbox.com NAME" (where NAME is the name of the girl I am looking for) I get a plethora of results. It is really frustrating seeing that "0 results" from DVDBox when I know there is at least 1 result.
On a final note, the layout has been vastly improved since the old days. There was no search function (although the current one really isn't great to begin with), and the pornstar listing was not organized at all; there were double listings, things out of order, wacky column organization. Things have come a long way since then and the site is one of the best out there. |
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