Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
+Rather low overlap with other DVD sites
+Pornstar directory with headshots - which seems to be the focus of this particular DVD site
+Multiple download formats (480p/360p WMV, 360p QT and 240p iPod MP4)
+Movies are tagged with niches
+Ample preview images for every scene
+Like Videobox, you can make custom clips
+The layout seems similar to VideoBox (when you click a scene you get related scenes and you get the other scenes the movie linked)
+Downloads work with download managers. The link is not your usual "site.com/folder/file.wmv"; link, but when you load it into any download manager it picks up fine. FlashGet gets a filename, while Free Download Manager doesn't get a filename. So I'd suggest to stick with FlashGet.
+Movies are tagged with addition date
+Mmmm...they rip XPLOR media content (Homegrown Video) and they TAG THE ACTRESSES. 1) not many sites rip Homegrown video, 2) those that do rarely tag the actress names
+Site search
+Standardized encoding formats
Cons:
-Library is only 1570 DVDs. VideoBox and VideosZ are cheaper and over 3 times as many DVDs.
-Update schedule sucks. A little over 1.5 updates per day (564 updates in the last 365 days)
-Updates only accessible from home page
-Site search works well, but when you search for a movie title you get your result and then some (some = a lot)
-Date tags dont appear in the DVD list, only on the DVD's respective page
-Videos are watermarked with the text "adult.com".
-No easy way of seeing movies from a series. Have to do a search. VideoBox gives you a pull-down menu listing all volumes of the series available, other sites give the movies a clickable tag of their series name, etc
-One too many clicks for downloading movies. VideoBox and VideosZ are a 2 click system - click DVD, click download format. Adult.com is an annoying three click system - click DVD, click menu, click download format. On that note...
-Have to use a menu to get to download formats (more in bottom line)
Bottom Line:
Overall a very good site. They have some movies that I have never seen on any other site. Heck, I figured that the only place I'd see some of the movies I found on Adult.com would have been on a VOD site (yuck). Everything about Adult.com feels like VideoBox, with the only issue being that it feels like the OLD VideoBox (the last layout before the current one). Thats not to say its a bad thing, because the old VideoBox layout is a winner in my book and is a lot better than 99% of DVD sites out there. It lacks a few things from the old VideoBox layout (like comments) but they are very minor and doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the site.
The site search works well, the problem is that it returns so many results if you are too generic. So if you want the site search to work to your advantage be very specific - include numbers...e.g. "Chica Boom 35" not "Chica Boom". A search for "Chica Boom" returned the 15 volumes of "Chica Boom" they provide, but it also returned 228 other DVD results. Bah.
The download menu is this Web 2.0 menu which pops down and overlaps anything on the page, containing all the download links to the download formats. Besides the fact that its one more click, I always find myself clicking AGAIN to close it because it blocks stuff below it.
The update schedule sucks especially when you compare to VideoBox (5 updates per day) and VideosZ (6 updates per day).
There isn't much else to say. Thankfully, it is just another run-of-the-mill DVD site like VideoBox and VideosZ that does not have many major holes (like missing headshots in star directory (movieroom), or remnants of old encoding (VideosZ), stupid resolutions (480x352 on VideoBox or 720x480 for standard def video on DVDBox), lack of pornstar tags in a lot of movies (DVDBox), updates are individual scenes not full movies (pornstar.com), hidden scenes (pornstar.com), etc.). Bring "run-of-the-mill" is a good thing for DVD sites...I just want my stuff and to be on my way, I dont want flashy crap getting my way. Flashy crap is meant for reality sites like Brazzers, Naughty America and the sort.
Improved update schedule (at least 3 DVD's per day) and the rating is in the 90's.
Other places where if the changes are made the rating would be closer to 100:
-Big link at the top of the page next to "STAR BROWSE" for "DVD ARCHIVE". Please don't make it hard to get to the directory.
-Ditch the download menu. Its one click too many, besides the fact that I find myself always closing it because it gets in the way of the rating of the scene below it.
-Show addition dates below all DVD's on the archive page or when DVD's show as results
-Do like VideoBox does and provide a menu linking users to other volumes in the series (you've followed VideoBox this far, why not go all the way?)
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
DVD site with over 1,300 titles and growing
TBP discount under 20.00 for monthly access
Some Exclusive DVD content
Variety of Download options including 1pod format
Daily adds 2 to 3 DVDs
Edit scene feature
Cons:
Search options very limited
Too much content from the big studios
Only able to save 8 scenes to favorites section
Bottom Line:
This site is a good option if you want to get
some content that most of the other DVD sites
don't have like Kick Ass, Xplore Homegrown series
and exclusive stuff like Big Sausage Pizza and Milf Cruiser scenes from Cinema Play. Searching
for content could be much better with allowing
you to view more DVDs per page and studio search
options.
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User Comments (4)
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Vivid Movie and Jenna Jamesons movie can bee found here
yea Adult.com has some dvd:s i havent found on other dvd-sites but compared to other dvd-sites its fewer updates and the new content added isnt that valuable in my book like the older content of Vivid and Jenna movies it offers
There are less than 60 DVD's here that are semi-exclusive & worth joining for. The other 1600+ are second-string movies from the bargain-bin. It's a good site, with all the features of the big DVD sites, but the content just isn't there yet.
Also, when you cancel, they make you call in and speak to an operator, which I rather dislike doing - it's kind of a hassle.
I am currently a member of Adult.com and it has some material
that most of the average DVD colossal sites don't. Notably,
there's a few dozen titles from Homegrown, Kick Ass, and alot
of scenes from reality sites as Big Sausage Pizza, Teen Hitch
hikers, Milfcruiser. I'll do a review later.
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