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User Reviews (6)
User reviews consist of pros, cons, and other thoughts.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Diabolic is one of the best studios around
- Access to about half of their titles
- Several updates a week
- File sizes are large and look good
- Download speeds are on par with the competition (but file sizes are significantly larger)
Cons:
- The website appears to have undergone a major re-work, and it is either really buggy or is still under development
- Videos all stutter, sometimes it really detracts from the scene
- Many dead links
- No obvious support for customers – three tries to contact them got nothing
- Some scenes are missing from movies
- Many scenes have watermarks, some are small, some have watermarks that are huge and block a good portion of the screen
- No star name associated with many scenes
- Notwithstanding the many dead links, only about half or less of the Diabolic library is online
Bottom Line:
This is my second time taking a membership at Diabolic. It appears that they may be undergoing a major re-work. I can’t say that for sure because my three emails for support were never replied to. I deduced the re-work theory from comparing the current site to the most recent review.
The biggest problem (assuming they are in the middle of a major overhaul) is that the site just isn’t ready for public use yet. Most of the older scenes I specifically joined to get have dead links. At the time I joined around 40% of the links were dead. (I didn’t test all of them, but I noted that every movie that shows it has had zero downloads has dead links, so I counted all the zero download movies.)
If the site is being overhauled, maybe some of the above will be fixed. Regardless of that though, there are some larger issues. I download the wmv versions, which are all large and look generally great. They are listed as HD. But they all (yes, all) have these annoying stutters. Sometimes it isn’t too bad, but other times it can get really annoying. Some of the stutters can last a few seconds.
I’m also not a fan of the site navigation. Each page shows 12 DVDs that are available. You select one that you want and that loads a page that shows the scenes in that movie. Under each scene are the options to watch it online, download it, or build you own. Hitting any of those options will bring you to another page (that frequently crashes) where you select how you want to do what you want to do. As in how do you want to view or download the file. Maybe I’m, being fussy, but having to drill down through three pages to download the file seems like one page too many. Maybe I’m just being fussy because I’m frustrated with all the other problems.
I have no idea why the site is as bad as it is. Maybe Diabolic is in its final days like someone here suggested (I hope not) or maybe they just don’t put the effort into web sales because they don’t see them as important. It seems to me that web sales are the future. I haven’t rented or bought a DVD in two years – everything is online now. I’m sure I’m not the only person who finds the web a more convenient place to get my porn. If so, Diabolic has to get in the game better than this. Adding to this concern is that Diabolic is updating the site a few times a week, but there are still well over a hundred titles that have never been added.
Diabolic has been one of my favorite studios for years. I really hope that they resolve the problems with their website because without it they’ll have no place in the online porn market.
And in the past I took it as a positive sign that the webmaster responded to concerns. Not so any more. Twice I contacted them through normal channels, and once through the email here at PU. Nothing in the two weeks since.
My recommendation is to avoid Diabolic until we have some assurances that the problems are fixed.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- You get to watch Diabolic's DVD's soon after they are released for sale.
- The videos are good.
- No more DRM. No download limit.
- Newest video definition is very good.
- Picture gallery for each scene(screenshots) and photo shoots for each movie. Rare for a DVD site.
- No watermarks
Cons:
- Every video file you download is named "90.wmv" which is very annoying.
- The navigation has problems
- Only 1 format/size of video download
- Older videos are lower quality
- A little pricey for the amount of content and updates
- No zips for the photos
Bottom Line:
This is the official site of Diabolic Video and it boasts 361 movies with 2,434 scenes. It seems to me that they have most of the Diabolic catalog available for download. When they release a new DVD it is available in the member's area in 3 to 5 days.
A new DVD is added every Friday and the photos for the movie are added on Monday. That's not enough updates in my opinon.
The videos quality ranges from 400x300, 618kbps for the old ones to 1920x1080 7235kpbs for the latest, and then everything in between. The videos are only offered in either 3 qualities of streaming or 1 size wmv.
There are about 250 photo shots from the videos each with about 50 pics, and the most recent photos are 1200x800. There are screenshots for each scene that look pretty bad. No zip file downloads.
A major annoyance has to do with the navigation. Whenever you view the list of actresses you are presented with DVD covers of a movie they are in and not a photo of the actress. Occasionally the actress will be the one on the cover, but most of the time it's not the case. I like to see what an actress looks like if I have never heard of her. They have a search which is good but they don't give you an option to search for a performer from the start. Also I encountered some mislabeled scenes.
As far as extras go there are some short behind the scenes videos and casting pics. Some of it isn't bad.
It costs 34.95 to subscribe, and while it may be more expensive and there are less DVD's than say videobox, these videos are more consistent and predictable(not necessarily a bad thing). I don't believe many of the newer ones are available anywhere else. If you like Diabolic's style of gonzo videos, then for subscribe for one month and check back later. Before you join browse through on the preview area and see the videos they have and decide if it's worth it.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
+Supports download managers
+Very low overlap, then again the library is limited (see cons)
+All dvds list addition date and the street release date
+Multiple streaming formats (low, med, high), but the download is only the HIGH version. If you want the low or med versions you have copy the stream link (which is not hidden by any means) and use any of your favorite stream recording program to obtain it. Nothing out of bounds here because Diabolic makes no attempt to hide anything, which is great.
+All scenes come with over 100 screencaps
+Excellent job of tagging pornstars
+Pornstar directory
+A lot of DVDs have HQ picture galleries (that aren't just screencaps) on the "Picture Galleries" page, however...(see cons)
+BTS videos separated from DVDs on a separate page
+The update calendar is very original. You can go back to any month and click on any update day to see additions.
+They dont skimp on scenes - e.g. all mini scenes from No Swallowing Allowed are available.
+No watermarks!
Cons:
-Its Diabolic's DVD site, so only the studio's DVDs are offered. So overlap is low, but it makes for a very small library (~350), it also makes for bad update schedule
-Update schedule is crap. 2 updates a week - a picture gallery on monday and a DVD addition on friday. This is just the nature of a studio-owned site - there is only so much stuff they can add, once they add all their old stuff they are left with adding stuff as they produce it. Most recent additions are from 2008-2009.
-HQ Picture galleries are not linked on the DVD's respective page.
-No ZIP downloads for picture galleries, either for the HQ or just the screencaps.
-Most recent updates are not available for download, only linked to the store to buy it. It takes about 2 weeks before the goods appear (stream/download links, screencaps, etc.).
-Series drop down menu lacks a few series which are in the DVD listing
-Trial is cheap ($1) but full membership is well overpriced ($35/mo)
-Older movies have lower res (see BL)
Bottom Line:
Overall, it is a good site which provided most, if not all of Diabolic's material. So if you find a girl you like and you see a Diabolic film on her IAFD page, more likely than not you will find that movie on this site.
The overlap is low (if not 0) with sites like VideoBox and VideosZ because those sites don't lease Diabolic content (I'm pretty sure of this). The problem is that Diabolic's film library is so small that they have already added all their movies to the site's library and there is not much left to add. The movies they are adding are movies which are being released for commercial consumption (production dates of 2008-2009). And this is why it makes the membership price so overpriced - you are paying 3.5x as much as VideoBox for not even 10% the library size.
Must miss? Nah, just more of a site where you buy membership only once a YEAR. Usually I'd say for some sites to buy once every few months, but Diabolic is not even worthy of purchasing that often, there are just not enough updates to warranty that. 52DVD's are added a year (assuming they are capable of maintaining that schedule since they are adding DVD's as they produce them), an amount which VideoBox adds in under 2 weeks.
Places where I docked: small library and outrageous price, mostly price (because the small library is the nature of these studio sites).
Some other notes...
*Every movie added prior to March 25, 2007 uses the old, poorer encoding WMV. Movies added after this date have a "High" resolution of 640x480, while those prior either have 400x300 or 480x360 (there is no consistency with the 400x300 or 480x360, one movie will be 300p and the next will be 360p and then the next will be 300p. It is just a crapshoot with what you get).
*You can organize the DVD list by date added to the site, street date or by title. It is a little hard to find the DVD list, but it is in the pull-down menu for "Choose Series", the first option ("ALL Movies").
*The pornstar directory uses misleading pictures. Below each girl you see the cover of a movie they are in, so you think that the girl on the cover is the girl you want, but it isn't. I wish they would use headshots, but I'm not going to dock them for not doing so.
*No watermarks is a blessing. Other studio sites use watermarks, which suck. Devils Film uses watermarks, Anabolic uses watermarks, etc.
*Every DVD has high(er) res DVD covers. It is nice, but they aren't terribly high quality, but are better quality than you will find on VOD sites.
*At the bottom of the page for each DVD there are links to every other movie in the series. Which leads me to another point, they never miss a movie in a series. If there are 10 movies in a series, all 10 are on the site, which should be expected for a studio site (let alone one with a small library).
*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.
User Comments (11)
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I rejoined yesterday specifically to download some scenes from some older titles. Over 40% of the scenes posted prior to April 2006 appear to have dead links. I bought the membership based on the fact that the movies and scenes were there but had no way to know that the links are dead. There is some evidence that the site is in the middle of an overhaul and that may explain the broken links. I'll report back here when I know anything more, but as of today my recommendation is to avoid Diabolic until further notice.
diabolic just stole my dollar!!! no longer a full trial and you get nothing for joining for three days. no video samples no picture, nothing att all!!! its a very sad attemp to steal my dollar!!! they just should of kept the 1 day full trial at 4.95
Just joined and the trial appears to be allowing downloads again. I'm literally downloading something as I type this, so perhaps that will change when it's done. But so far, so good.
Also, trial membership through Diabolic Web is only $2.49 for three days and gives access to the current Diabolic.com site.
- i have just subscribed but the download option do not work with the trial membership = technical issues?
- the billing support answer me i must upgrade my membership for downloading the material
IS IT RIGHT?
When signing in to Diabolic, got the following PRE-CHECKED checkbox in a rather small print:
"Sign me up for a 3 day No Charge Membership to www.pornstarstop.com. After 3 days, Membership renews automatically at $34.12 every 1 month."
As this kind of things upsets me greatly, I've decided not to proceed at this point.
After I received a reply from the webmaster stating the video sizes have been improved to 1500k I checked it out. There is a dramatic improvement in video quality since I reviewed the site 2 days ago.
As of December 22 (and maybe a few days ago) the DL sizes are much larger. I've compared several scenes that I DLed earlier and the sizes are about doubled.
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