+ Huge Collection of Exclusive Pictures/Videos, Great Mix of Models.
+ Nice Variety of Softcore, Masturbation, Toy Play, Girl/Girl, etc.
- Fairly Basic Navigation/Design, No Search Tool or Niche Sections.
- Quality Can Vary on the Older Content, Some Vids in Clips Only.
User Reviews (28)
User reviews consist of pros, cons, and other thoughts.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Excellent quality in videos and photos
- HD Available (up to 1920x1080) for many videos and all newer videos
- Multiple download options
- HD Streaming available
- Over 1000 videos available (varying lengths)
- Photos available (most high resolution – some at 2592x3888)
- Photos zipped or singles
- Great mix of North American and European models
- Models are very beautiful
- Some great on-location shoots
- Not ‘cookie-cutter’ porn
- iPhone / mobile device users have separate area so no need to sort
- Still updating regularly
- Discount to ALS Angels with site membership ($9.95) (this is NOT a pre-checked cross-sell)
Cons:
- Limited search function
Bottom Line:
The last time I joined ALS Scan I joined specifically for the public nudity scenes. I did that because I really had no interest in anything else they had to offer. I did download some stuff other than the public nudity and when I finally got around to watching it I was amazed at how stunning the models were, how hot the scenes were, and how the site seemed to go out of its way to offer industry-leading resolutions on both video and pictures.
Objectively, the site is as good as it gets. It’s near perfect. It’s obvious that the site owner wants to deliver an excellent product to his customers.
The site offers both video and pictures, and unlike many other sites one doesn’t take a back seat to the other. Both are very well done. The site currently has over 1000 videos on the site, with more being added. One point about the updates is that they are new, as in recently shot, and they are old, in that the site offers older, re-mastered material.
The videos are all available in multiple formats. The formats and sizes vary depending on when the video was shot and uploaded, but it’s fair to say that if you’re downloading a video from 2007 it would have exceeded the specs of almost anything available elsewhere. For the past year or so all videos have been available in true HD. They’re available in DivX and mp4 format (1280x720) and in WMV9 at 1920x1080 (at 8000kbps). I only downloaded the WMV files, and they are amazingly crisp. This is some of the best video I’ve ever seen. HD streaming is also available. HD became pretty common in mid-2007 though not universal until later.
The videos come in several categories: solo photo shoot, solo masturbation and girl/girl. There are several public nudity shoots, but they haven’t added to these in a couple of years. Each year for the past several the crew has taken models to an on-location shoot in the Caribbean. The locations and the models combine with the technical expertise of the crew to create some fun, hot videos. There are also casting shoots in Budapest and the Czech Republic. These aren’t necessarily ‘hot’ but they are a lot of fun to watch. Mixed in to some of the scenes are some fisting (girl-on-girl and solo) and some peeing (but no golden showers).
I’m not a picture guy, but I’ll make an exception for this site. The pics are available as SD or HD and as singles or zipped. The HD size is large (I saw some at 2592x3888) and subjectively they are incredible! Zooming in causes no pixilation at all.
I used Free Download Manager and it worked perfectly. Download speeds were 1850+/- but that may be where my settings are since I don’t know how to change them. File sizes can be huge, so people with download caps need to be wary.
One thing I thought was a nice touch was that they created a separate portal for people who download to mobile devices. That makes finding the material easy.
Subjectively, this site is second to none. The models are stunning. There is a good mix of North American and European models. A-list porn stars are here too. The scenes all look incredible. The lighting, camera work, sound and editing are all near-perfect.
This isn’t cookie-cutter porn – although there are a few broad categories of scenes, the director and models do an excellent job of making each scene feel fresh. It looks like they’re having fun on the site. My guess is that they are.
Is there anything wrong with the site? Not really, but it could benefit from a search function. There is nothing now, and arguably that’s okay since the shoots can be sorted by model. By they should consider adding a search function for things like fisting, peeing and lesbian. But don’t get me wrong – the addition of a search function would only be like an extra layer of icing on a delicious cake. (And since they design and sell their own bikinis, maybe a search by style would be great too.)
Some caveats for anyone thinking of joining – these aren’t negatives, just things you need to be aware of: 1) there are no b/g scenes, 2) 99% of the models are petite, Caucasian and young.
To add more icing to the cake, when you join this site you can get a $9.95 subscription to ALS Angels. It’s a very similar site and I’m not really sure of the difference but it is a nice addition. If I find major differences I’ll post a comment or review if warranted.
The bottom line is that if you like this kind of material and these types of models, you likely won’t find a better site on the ‘net. Be prepared to spend some time here.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
04-28-1103:10pm (Update History) Reason: The longer I am a member of this site the more I appreciate its qualities. Raising score by Two (2).
Pros:
A large selection of very beautiful models from Europe and North America.
Impressive photography, mostly solo or g/g. Available in approx. 930x1400 px, Normal Resolution and 2200x3500 px High Resolution, zipped. Slight changes in resolution from picture to picture. Enormously large sets giving you the choice of keeping only the very best.
Most recent videos are in HD format in 720p dvx and mp4 format, as well as the extra large videos at 1080p wmv. All are downloadable!
Streaming is also available for previews or watching the whole video on-line if you so desire. Streaming picture is HD and very clear as well. I experienced no buffering problems.
Speed of download was also very good for me at 3.5 MB/s. This was for a single file through Firefox's DTA. Normal downloads through the browser downloader were much slower but still around 600 KB/s but as a plus this way of doing things seemed to allow multiple downloads.
Nice bonus material (auditions, blogs, bts etc.)
Cons:
Huge picture sets will require a large amount of time to prune. I never thought I would consider a set containing approx. 300 pictures a con. Well, it isn't really - see above under pros, but some of you might be a bit more impatient when it comes to downloading or editing a 500 MB picture set so be warned.
I desperately want a search engine for this site. You practically have to go from update (arranged in chronological order) to update to find something that fits your taste.
Model directory is in alphabetical order but it would be nice if the pictures of the models contained the dates when her sets and videos were published. This would prevent the frustration of finding a beautiful model and then realize that her pictures are not High Resolution and her videos are split up into various parts .. something most of us aren't interested in nowadays unless we collect the complete works of a model.
Continued below:
Bottom Line:
It would be nice to be able to go to a point where publishing HD videos and HR pictures first started and work one's way up to the present from there.
Close attention is required when looking at the updates themselves, some are an invitation to rate sets, some are bonus material from other sites, some are masturbation videos or g/g videos, some are picture sets, but there are also videos of photoshoots .. something I dislike heartily, but others might enjoy.
Because I didn't pay attention originally I downloaded a hefty HD file (g/g content) expecting hot action and found myself listening to the distracting remarks of the director as he gave his instructions for the shoot. I don't like to have my illusions destroyed. But, as I said, some might like that sort of thing.
BOTTOM LINE:
This is a well-respected, well run site that offers top quality material. I did not see one single unattractive model, I'd even take the ones they had to reject during their auditions. Most would be between 18-25 in age.
The material is shot indoors, as well as in more exotic locations. Lovers of glamorous videos and picture sets will be well pleased.
There is also the added eroticism of a bit of kink. Fisting, insertion of large objects (mostly dildos), peeing, some public exposure scenes. Good stuff for most.
I also loved the fact that I did not come across one single pair of enhanced breasts. They MIGHT be there but I didn't come across them. This is so refreshing when compared to most sites!
I am adding my usual plaint, and yes, all of you who know me knew it would come:
I wish they featured some mature women, and I wish that their models would wear more than the bare necessities. Sometimes the girls don't even wear those, because I very seldom came across a bra or even a pair of panties during many of my spot checks of the picture sets and videos, but then I shouldn't go to a site like this one and expect it to be something it wasn't meant to be.
You can't expect to find cougars in a cubs' playpen.
After all this site is not meant for lovers of a leisurely strip by mature women but for those who revel in beautiful young, glistening bodies, and for them ALS SCAN does its job very well.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
- A fantastic array of beautiful girls
- Very detailed and "up-front" photos
- High quality vids, offered in three different formats; 1280x720 HD DivX, 1280x720 HD MP4, 1920x1080 HD WM
- Older models have their videos remastered and published
- Director's blog - you can read and find out what's going behind the scenes and grab some exclusive vid's or photo shoots
- Lots of mqsturbation and self-toying action
- Their castings are featured on video, and photos /w commentary
Cons:
- The website design. I've been a member three times, and it hasn't changed much from when I first joined in 2002.
- No search function
- Too much fisting for my taste
- Too much focus on "perfect breasts and no tattoos", come on, let in a girl that have some personality and quirky feautres.
- ALS hasn't published all videos of their older models (instead they sell them on DVD for 49.99 o so), come on.
Give us long time fans everything that was ever made with girls like Joanne, Jana, April, etc to download, and I'll be an happy customer.
- Download speeds. It averages at 150 kbit/s per file, and I ave a 8mbit/s line, and there seems to be a 2 or 3 file downloadlimit.
- Only works in IE
Bottom Line:
I think that ALS has run it course, yes it is still joinable, and it's not a bad site to join (especially if it is for the first time), but as a third time member I must say that I'm not impressed.
It feels like time stood still, and yes, they do HD, but it is so boring to watch.
And most of the new models are rubbish. They should have picked up at least 10 new models that they discarded from the casting sessions (because she looked unhappy or had a tattoo), come on man.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
+ 250+ smiling, skinny, shaved, super-hot hot models
+ Still almost purely solo- or girl-girl action that stays pretty entertaining
+ Amazing quality:
• videos: HD up to 1920x1080 @ 300 kb/s
• photos: hi-res are roughly 3900x2600px
+ Great quantity too; archived vids back to Apr 2007, photos much farther back
+ Daily video updates, new photo set released every two days
+ Download speeds have a lot of ass; I normally got about 1.3MB/s with a DL manager
+ They donate some of their pervy profits to charity, in case philanthropy is a deciding factor
Cons:
- Large percentage of videos are just BTS, and with photo sets the BTS is usually just mixed in
- Some models' content takes a long time to get released or simply stays unreleased
- Site design works well for what it is, but still has NO search function
- They are beginning to delve into boy-girl content, even if only lightly (read more in BL)
- Despite the fun some content can get predictable and routine
- 2 years since my first review and I still wish they would shoot more American girls or non-Euro girls
- I don't get to meet these girls in person! :-(
Bottom Line:
What can I say that hasn't already been said so many times and so well about one of my all time favorite adult sites over the years--hell, over the history of much of the crazy web itself, seeing how these guys have been finding and shooting hot shaved ladies since 1996. And since they have been doing this for so long they know a thing or two about getting the goods; great photo and video quality, lots of content, fast access, and above all some very happy models, many of whom come back wanting more.
That last point, happy models who become 'repeat offenders' shall we say, is not something I take lightly when I am looking for a new site to join and it's something where ALS has never faltered. I may be in the minority when I say this, but I genuinely don't enjoy porn where the performers, know matter how willing, are abused, beaten up, disrespected, or at the end of the day just left dissatisfied and unhappy. Of course ALS being in the girls only genre probably helps keep things in check but it, like the majority of sites, is still owned and run by a male and caters to a primarily male audience.
And despite all of this male input the output for many years was totally female; female models with female assistants in most cases and a female co-performer or two in some others. But in the past few years they have, if ever so slightly, started to also use male assistants, or at least made them more visible in both photos and videos--not my cup of tea, thank you very much. Even more alarming--or simply the next logical step, depending on your view--they have just recently shot an actual boy-girl scene. It's yet to be released and is described as a blowjob scene with swallowing, but time will tell as to where ALS steers its content.
Generally speaking, and if you're not looking for hardcore content, there's a lot to love here and at least a little to hate. So take your pick; young, skinny, shaved, mostly white models who are not too shy, so don't be surprised by a single model performing many if not all of the following; peeing, fisting, speculum and other crazy insertions, anal, and near constant spreading. The site design may not be impressive to many, nor may be the large amount of BTS, but don't let it fool you--as girls-only content goes they do not disappoint.
I do wish they would be more consistent in releases though. They still have a habit of letting members vote on models' scenes to determine release order and this can mean months before a model's whole shoot is available, and some just never gets released at all. I guess this is a good thing--so much content that there's not enough time to release it all--but I would like to see it eventually. And as unique as some of their content is it can get predictably routine; toy A into slot b, and so on.
But damn if they don't make it look hot time and time again with each new model they find and corrupt. All these years and I'm still sold! :-P
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I really like this site's audition videos. I usually don't care for "Behind The Scenes" material but there's something about all those hopeful young beauties getting undressed, and their reaction to the audition, that makes these videos some of my favorites. Just thought I would mention this because the videos aren't featured under the main updates and might be missed by some. And as an aside, I'd accept every one of the hopefuls! I am glad I didn't have to make the eliminations because to me they'd all look good in ALS SCAN.
There are also High Resolution Picture sets of the auditions available but I found quite a few of the pictures out of place and deleted those sets until their editors straighten things out.
I might have kept them, flaws and all, but one set weighed in at a hefty 3 Gigs plus. So, beside the problem of models ending up in each others audition there was also the problem of having to go through a huge number of pictures to correct the mistakes. As well as the loss of 3.3 Gigs memory on an ever more crowded external hard drive.
P.S. Just came across some audition videos in the main section of the site so if you look long enough you will find them there as well.
Praise - I wanted to comment that I'm happy to see the majority of newer models fisting again. There was a stretch of a year or maybe 2 where many of the newer models were not fisting, but now almost all of them are. This is very good!!
Rant - It is WAYYYYY past time for this site to change the way it does updates. Models still have their content released on a totally sporadic schedule, which could literally take a year or more to see all of their content. Or you could never see some videos or sets of a model, seriously never. There is no organized release schedule, they just add updates as they get feedback from members as to what they want to see. FUN FACT - I do not want to have to beg for every set or video I want to see!!! Just release ALL OF IT in an organized fashion and EVERYBODY will be happy. Seriously, get all of a models content out in 2-3 months MAX. My guess is less than 20% of members are actually giving feedback of what they want to see, but does it matter, WE WANT TO SEE ALL OF IT. Get rid of this current system and implement an organized release schedule for content PLEASE.
Having said that, here is my current feedback - release a ton of masturbation category fisting scenes please. ;)
I guess I've had my longest break from the ALS sites in years. I couldn't quite go through my full boycott of the ALS sites, until they combine them or at least give a double sign-up option to join both sites. I have cut back to one month a year on each site.
Also had problems with the payment processor on both sites. Attempting to sign up through their main payment processor which is ALS, through their site, got me two declines and two redirects to CCBill, their alternate biller. I don't know if I'm making an unusual request, but why not just put a link to join through CCBill? It seems the regular payment processor doesn't like my bank card.
Once beyond that, as always, no reason to re-review for now, the content is as good as you'll find on the internet. Especially the newer content with near 4000 high end pictures and 1920x1080 videos. The models, especially on ALS Angels, continue to be top-level for me. I had never seen Taylor Tilden until the sets she has on ALS Angels and really look forward to seeing more of her. I don't understand the remastering pecking order. I would like to see both Eve Angel and Angelina Crowe's content remastered, both seem to be very popular, but they both still have a lot of older content in lesser quality. I think in my complaint there, I'm just wondering if those can't be remastered higher? Going through the ALS Angels models, I can maybe find 5 I won't download content of.
ALS Scan is still as good as always. The quality is very high here as well though there are less models I'm interested in than on Angels.
Overall, the two sites have produced some of my favorite scenes. They have my favorite Meggan Malone scene, strip poker, as she masturbates in front of another female and two males. Eve Angel has many great videos on ALS Angels, my favorite being the assisted fisting from Nadia. When Eve speaks English, I would think she really means it since she supposedly doesn't like speaking English, but she tells Nadia about halfway through the scene, "You're so good at this" as she makes a mess all over Nadia's arm and the couch. Great video work as well, the camera shows just enough of Nadia to show her nipples swelling when Eve says it.
It's very believable porn and I do believe it's ALS greatest strength. On a last note, I would review both similar to my previous reviews. And as a P.S. anyone notice Zoli from Zoliboy hanging around in some of the sets? I found it interesting since Zoli and Alex of ALS seem to work magic with some of these models who rarely do anything extreme. I could be wrong, it may just be someone who looks like Zoli, but the photoshoot video of Eve Angel outdoors with Kylie fisting her, I'm almost positive that's Zoli walking around and helping with direction. Still highly recommended.
ALS Scan has started releasing material from their latest Caribbean trip. They continue to set the bar incredibly high for creating a setting where their models want to go at each other in wonderfully erotic ways.
The first vid released is centered on Tanner Mayes & Blue Angel. They're all sitting around a table, looking a bit dazed, stoned and bored when Tanner goes off, gets a dog collar and leash and puts it on Blue Angel because "she needs to go for a walk." The expression on Blue Angel's face when Tanner comes over to her is absolutely fucking priceless - it's one of those "I love you and I'm game for anything" looks that's impossible to fake. Blue Angel's fucking gorgeous and when she's really into what she's doing, it's a case of - one of the best models alive at her absolute best.
The pics they've released so far are pretty damned awesome as well. And Alex has said that they have more material from this trip than any previous, so if you're a fan of hot girl/girl material, I highly recommend this stuff.
One caveat: They're venturing into boy/girl action with this trip. There's one bj pic in the samples released so far and, according to the Director's Blog, there's at least one boy/girl fuck scene that was filmed. So a word of warning if you're someone that doesn't want to enter a site where guys touch girls. For anybody else..
Alsscan now has live chat webcams. I was a little sceptical at first, as I was unaware there was "free" chat. The models need paying with gifts (or tokens for private chat) if you want them to perform for you, but having tried the chat out with Vivian the other week, I can heartily recommend giving them a try ;)
I hope I don't get in trouble for this comment (beware the wrath of Khan!) but I thought I would pass along a discount to other current Als Scan members.
In his Mar 30 blog director/founder/master Alex offered a discount to their sister site Als Angels for a very low price ($9.95 for a month, that would rebill at the same price). I am not sure what spurred this on but he was talking about an Angels model and her unique anatomy in the same blog, or maybe he was just in a good mood so who knows.
I won't give out the exact details since, as I mentioned above, this is for current Als Scan members only so if you're a member you can login and read the March 30 blog entry to figure out how if you're interested. He said this was a very limited time offer, like a week-ish or around that time frame, but it's a hefty discount.
From webmaster/owner Alex's director blog on March 19:
"We did shoot our first POV BJ scene with Amy, too. It went very well. Again, don't yell at me if you are upset about seeing some cock. We are only going to do this for video and we will be providing two edits of the scene. We shot them in such a way that we can present it with and without the BJ portion. Simply download the version that best suits you. Our POV BJ style series is going to be called "Direct Deposit". It involves the model deep throating the cock, and then when the guy is about to shoot his load, he rams his cock down her throat thereby directly depositing his entire load into her stomach."
(I am only quoting the part of the blog that pertains to this comment.)
Well I never thought I would see the day!
Longtime loyal followers of ALS know that they have a pretty strict girls-only model policy--i.e. no guys to do the penetration or pretty much anything else--but with a new model they shot this week, Amy Brooke, they have entered uncharted territory. Don't get me wrong, Amy sounds like a great model; a lover of anal, squirting, and other such perversions, but I don't want to see ALS do hardcore, at least not the kind involving guys.
Call me stubborn, orthodox, old-fashioned, close-minded, I don't care; I have always counted on ALS to bring out the hot girls while leaving the guys to drool off camera. I'm not going to "yell" at Alex as he asked in his blog but I will cry, at least a little for the old ALS.
(BTW, I am sure Alex is getting plenty of hate mail over this already, and forwarding him this comment isn't my intention. I don't need him quoting every complaint and complement I ever make about the site just so he can mount a defense and call me out.)
Back in the day (late 90's) I used to be an avid collector of ALS picture collections. I remember back then, images were available on the website and they also released a series of photo CD's, usually containing ~700 pictures of 4 models per disc.
Does anyone know if these picture CD's are now available to download on the website?
How Much Old Material Are They Re-releasing/'Remastering'
I am thinking of rejoining my old vice--shaved ladies!--and was wondering how many of ALS' updates are old remastered or unreleased material?
From what I could tell looking at their update pages it seems as if they have at least one set or scene from the past being released on average about every week or even as often as every four or five days. Forgive me, for I don't have all of their old material (yet) so I am not sure what's brand new and what's not but if any members could give me a clue it would be much appreciated.
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