Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Huge amount of scenes. Over 2500 at the time of the review
-Daily update, although that's down from two a day when they did those "one by night" scenes too
-Production values, especially when it comes to photography is the best I've seen anywhere on the DDF Prod network
-Really top notch models. Blue Angel, Zuzana Z and many other European starlets
-Like the entire network, this site also offers 1080p video these days. Strangely not every scene though, I wonder if they are releasing them not in shooting order?
-Large photosets available in three different resolutions, zipped also
-Download managers work fine and the speeds are very nice. I get around 7MB/s
Cons:
-Regional pricing meaning they make their fellow Europeans pay more than the richer PU's across the Atlantic
-Earlier material on this network is only "network exclusive" meaning that you don't find it elsewhere but there are duplicates and different edits of the same scenes within the network's many sites
-Lately the site has been dedicated to solo scenes, the only B/G is on the "jokes" sets of funny photos they sometimes release. It's worth noting however that the older hardcore scenes are available on other network sites like HandsOnHardcore so they were not really 1ByDay releases to begin with
-Highest resolution (1080p) video only in wmv. If you want mp4, 720p is the best available option
Bottom Line:
1ByDay is a huge site within DDF Prod network. One could almost call it a network within a network with over 2500 scenes up to date. The focus of the site is solo girl scenes with masturbation, dildos and such. What hardcore content this site has probably comes from the time before network deals when DDF Prod clearly shared content from site to site. During those days this site got two daily updates, one solo girl and one slightly harder (B/G, lesbian, dildo etc.). Nowadays the content appears to be exclusive to this network AND this site and is updated once a day.
I must say that DDF Prod in general has probably the highest production values when it comes to galamourous looking models and photography that is unsurpassed and this site is not an exception. Everything looks as close to perfect as one can reasonably expect, especially the newer scenes. Video in 1080p is very nice and the photos probably the best there is with only 21Sextury giving competition in terms of size (quality wise I haven't seen better yet).
The site design is clear and easy enough to navigate. Only thing that one would wish was that they got rid of the duplicates across the network even if it reduces the overall number of scenes. It's sometimes hard to tell if you have something already or not. These days the design ss uniform over the main network and subsites so it doesn't really matter which one you are on.
Personally I'm not usually big fan of solo sites but as long as they manage to get really hot models, I think they are at least worth occassional check when they come as a part of some package. I don't get solo scenes of hardcore models, they just do not work for me, having seen them do so much more. Luckily this site has a mix of both so there is something for all. They also post "jokes" sets on this site as regular updates. Those are photosets of funny faces or bloopers during action and are sometimes quite hilarious.
Where this site and network loses to the main competition is the pricing. As the obvious main competitor 21Sextury is dirt cheap, this is understandable. You'll en up buying triple price here if you plan on longer membership. Regional pricing is a nasty thing to do to fellow Europeans. I could somehow understand it the other way as there's more money across the Atlantic.
I'd raise the score few points over 90 if there was no regional pricing and duplicates got cleaned away. Personal opinion of course also affects the score so if one is into solo scenes, this might be worth much more to them.
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Well, have you noticed that 1byday is taking more than its usual amount of time downloading the pages -- one day after another? Recently, those gallery pages, which used to move fairly fast, are slowing down considerably! Even the home page for members is waking up like a shit-faced drunk after 3 hours of sleep.
I chalk it up to popularity, especially that 10th Anniversary deal. And I'm contributing to the problem as well, if not for very long each day. And I wait longer than those proverbial 8 seconds, too. Gotta be PATIENT!
Disturbing trend over the last week or so - video quality has dropped considerably.
Since adding the backstage vids the type of video offered has changed. At present the best is advertised as HD quality 720p but in practice the new vids are blocky, 4:3 and only available as mp4 mov files. Far far far from HD. Not a patch on the old (earlier than 1st August) mp4 avi files.
Maybe it's me as GSopt can't even render the files to tell me exactly what they are but I've never had a problem with mov files before...
OK - they're half then size but who wouldn't choose quality over quantity? I know I wouldn't. Very disapointing trend.
Looks like 1BD have turned off the rollback server. This means you can no longer set up downloads using a manager such as FDM and schedule them to download overnight. Plus you now have to use the really clunky and ugly "improved" web interface. Urrgh..horrible.
After your review I will give these guys another try. I tried a very while ago and the movie buffering killed it for me. I will have to try again. Thanks!
Still more stuff from Als Scan are comming in at 1ByDay - is this a joint venture like the former Daimler-Chrysler?
What can PUs expect from 1ByDay in the future concerning updates. This user would surely like to know - will 1ByDay continue to use already wellknown products from Als Scan as a part of main updates?
Any respons from some webmaster at 1ByDay?
We've had some discussions about this (one time) great site.
What annoyed me earlier was the slim preview - slim in many ways - both about certain models updates and the amount of sets with each model.
Don't really know why - maybe still hunting for stuff - I just took a look at the site again - in spite of the end of membership a couple of months ago.
Do not know HOW new their present preview is, but it's got to be pretty new:
Now you get acces to preview (photos and videos) of all new sets - and that's a fine improvement.
It also helps a user to avoid another period of membership.
And that's exactly what this new preview did.
Thanks, 1ByDay...
Guess I'll wait a while and hope for improvement - and maybe even hope for revival of the greatness of old times.....
I thought that the reduxes at 1byday, mostly 1616px with that icky black border, being redone in 2000 px without the framing was a nice thing. (Some folks here have expressed objections, though.)
But now they're even reposting sets they'd already put up before in 2000px! There was one recently of Luciana (Feb. 21st) and even more recently of Mili Jay (yesterday).
This is recycling of content with no benefit at all to the loyal resubscriber or loyal continuous long-termer (a calendar year for me).
When fed up with bad sites, this user returns to 1ByDay - again and again.
And this time I had no regrets what so ever.
1)The good ol' archive is up again - and in a better navigation-way.
2)Man, new and great models keep comming up - it's a pleasure.
My only main objection is somewhat a lack of new ways to video-film the scenes. Ok, how can you do a film of a solo-model or a traditional fuck-scene without repetion.
Simple: Steal from all others: If DDF did more POV (in their own style), or maybe a bit virtual like the old scenes with Julia Ann, more full figure in the solo-stuff and more teasing/strip tease by the girl-models before bj, fuck and ect. - just ask us PUs what we're looking for...and you'll get a heck of a lot of ideas..
I talked to 1bystaff in email over the weekend, and expressed that not just me, but many others were frustrated with the removal of the archives. They replied back and at that time confirmed that the archive had been removed from the newly designed site. I do want to say that I think the new content is great in quality and update schedule, but the newer models are not near as established as the ones that fill the archives. They sent me a link to where the archives could still be found. That really wasn't a big help since the pic sets in the archive was DL fine, but the movie files were saying unauthorized access.
I get up this morning to see that 1byday has reverted to the previous website design. Archives, model categories are all back and the not so helpful search box has been removed. Oh and the regular login screen is back, so you won't have to login every 5 minutes.
I would like to think they listened to us on this and decided to go back, and that this isn't just a temporary fix to hush us up. If ain't broke, don't fix it! I personally thought the current format was very clean running on the new content, visually appealing and the options will always top nearly all sites.
Thanks 1byday for bringing back the archives, those archives always justified the higher price.
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