+ 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.
*Newbie reviews and ratings don't count toward a site's overall score/rank until the user reaches the Rookie status level (5 points). This rule is needed to help prevent fake (or heavily biased) profiles and reviews.
Hey, that's a another bonus I like. The complete Eva resampled and now in hires pics and remastered video.
Thanks to Alex and his team for making this possible. I don't know of any other site putting so much effort into bringing back old stuff with today's standards.
If you're participating in the voting at ALS Scan for which older sets you'd like redone in larger sizes and better quality, I have a plea to make.
I've noticed that a couple of models at least (Ember and Morgan) already have way more votes than needed for #1 and #2 spots. Seems that Alex will choose the best of several, so why not also vote for additional babes who are not getting enough votes so far. (Monique Alexander being one, and yes, I'm promoting her ;)
The same idea goes for future votes with other babe candidates.
Most of the videos on this site look great, and some look absolutely stunning. However, I feel I should warn you about a video series that will disappoint you and waste a lot of time.
Jana Irrova's extra video series is a waste. The series is a VHS remake. The quality is terrible and is unlike the normal quality. The biggest reason I warn you is because some of the files are close to 1.5 GB and are hardly worth 50 MB. You will spend a lot of time downloading them when that time could have been used to download videos half that size that are infinitely better. If you run into these the file names will have "vhs" on the front. Doing this was a nice idea, but they need to be edited and transcoded into something much smaller. The series ended up being around 13 GB.
I just joined this site last night. At first it seemed to give my download manager fits. It kept wanting me to type in the password for ever movie I tried to download. After a bit it started working just fine. I think this site works like some others out there, it does not recognize the manager until it actually completes a full download, then it will work just fine. I have the exact same thing this morning when I started downloading from a different computer and location. The site is pretty fast though. I am seeing about 600 KBytes/s average on 7 downloads, so about 4 MByte/s total, but I am getting 6 from another site right now too, so it might be faster. The design is pretty plan though, I think a retarded gerbil could make a better design, it looks nothing like the preview and join pages. But, so far so good. Will update if anything else comes up.
So I mailed the site and it turned out that the problem was due to a dispute between Congent and Telia...
This is what Bob from ALS wrote to me:
"OK now on to the problem. Our tech dept found a problem and it is
not it
ALS but a contract dispute between Cogent and Telia. Please read
below. We have a fix that is being put into place.
We can re-route our ALS traffic through a different ISP... but...
I may take a day or two to work it all out properly.
After this is fixed and you are happy, please let me give you
5000 free DVD download tokens for your trouble".
What can I say, this shows a company who cares deeply about their customers. My hat off to ALS for the service!
This is hands-down my favorite site on the net - great vids, hot girls, high quality pics, high quality vids, lots of updates, awesome bonuses once every month or two.
And they are always working on upgrading the site in significant ways.
Now they have made a leap in their navigation, which was rather atomized and not so great. You had the pics under Feature Models, you had vids under Video Releases, you had vids under Directors Hottest Videos.
Now you can look in a few different places if you want, but if you are hot for a particular girl, you click on her at Feature Models and you have the links to everything they have of her under all sections.
I rejoined the site yesterday, after reading a reply on my original comment from another PU user. I'm quite glad I did and the main reason is of course that they have stopped the video rotation. Despite that I'm not that fond of the generous ammount of fisting, I love the pee content, but I'd reaaly like to see more of that though (especially in the videos).
A big minus though is the design. It looks and feels like it hasn't been updated since 1997.
One thing I hate about ALS Scan is that Alex always has to release new models. With the amount of content still unreleased and the fact that they update picture sets only on 5 days per week this is a real annoyance to me :(. I'd like to see more Karina, Alexis Love, Kim etc. but I think that this will only be a wish they won't satisfy...
One good thing is that they released a Kacey Jordan bonus set plus video that seems to be real hot. I have only seen the second part of the pic set (+550 pics!) so far but this proves that Kacey Jordan is one of the hottest models they have to offer!
This is indeed a great site,
I rejoined thanks to YOUR GREAT AND COMPLETE REVIEWS!
I've been off ALSScan for a few years 'til now - I thought they wouldn't make it (they seemed not to succeed in the transition of photosite to videosite)
But wow, the content is great - grandiose settings, sweat, oil, great looking super hot girls, lots of fisting action, fantasic atmosphere, great cameras...
they have all what FTV lacks...
I just hope, put on some hidden video-material of my older favourites (like Heidi...)
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