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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ full Diabolic videos
+ videos are often released on site almost simultaneously with DVD releases
+ tons of videos
+ production quality (setups, lighting, cameraguy work) is extremely good (not surprising for Diabolic videos)
+ frequent updates |
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- even newer videos are of not that good encoding quality (640x480x1.5MBit/s); while appropriate for some other stuff, Diabolic videos suffer from it greatly
- video quality of old videos is really low (400x300x650kBit/s)
- content within the same series is repetitive and soon becomes boring
- girls aren't always pretty (not that surprising for this kind of content, but Diabolic could probably do better)
- swindling attempt by Diabolic/Epoch (see my comment) |
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I should say that as a strange side effect of subscribing to this site I became a bit disappointed not about this site, but about Diabolic as a movie studio. While their movies are of really good quality (setups, lighting, cameraguy work) especially by adult web standards, seeing all of them in one place reveals that there are quite few themes and most of them quickly become quite repetitive.
Other than that, there is not much to say in addition to TBP site facts. Yes, they are full Diabolic videos, yes, there are lots of them, yes, they're released to the site very close to releasing DVDs, but quality isn't nearly that good that you'll get on DVD (and for Diabolic videos you will see the difference, it's NOT homemade production which doesn't suffer from encoding); older videos are of measly 400x300, newer are 640x480 but I've seen better encoding at this resolution, in particular color balance looks very degraded compared to Diabolic DVDs). Sex (as usual for Diabolic) is on rough side, with lots of anal/DP/A2M and other such stuff, but girls aren't always really pretty (not too surprising, but Diabolic could probably do better).
Bottom line: could be really good site for Diabolic fans or fans of professionally shot rough porn, but only if you don't care too much about encoding quality. Personally I'd prefer to see less videos and/or only older ones, but of significantly higher quality. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Streaming videos good quality.
Good site design.
Easy site to browse.
Downloadable video quality recently improved.
Customer service quick to respond. |
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Updates are few and far between.
Download speed could be better.
Pop-ups on exit.
Price is a fairly high for amount of content currently available. |
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Recently some changes were made to the website that compelled my to edit my review. My first impressions were marred by the poor video quality however the video quality has dramatically improved. Given this factor and the fact that the website listens to its customer base, my opinion of the site has risen. Having a site read and respond to our opinions on this forum is I think what we all want and I commend them for that.
Overall I think this is one of the better studio-backed websites out there. I do have some minor issues with the slowness of updates, but once their archive has a chance to expand I think the high price could come to look more reasonable. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Diabolic is one of the best studios out there and this gives access to a large part of their catalogue
No DRM on downloads. Kudos to Diabolic for being on the leading edge of this long-needed trend.
Streaming at your choice of speeds
Easy searches by series title, genre or star |
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Within individual movies the star's name frequently is wrong. If you're looking for a particular star the star search will get you to the movie but you may need to look at the thumbnails to get the right scene
Download speeds can vary from average to painfully slow |
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(EDIT December 22, 2007 - I can confirm that the larger file sizes are now available. In my opinion, this puts Diabolic among the best sites on the web.)
In my opinion, Diabolic is one of the best studios operating today. Their material is consistently good. You may not like a particular genre, but you at least know that they do that genre well. They have some excellent gonzo material with a raw edge that doesn't push the envelope as far as some others do. Technically their work is excellent - always good lighting and editing. And they always have the best and brightest stars in the biz in their movies.
The site is well done. There are multiple ways to search: genre, series titles, individual titles and stars. Download speeds are good.
If you're a fan of excellent porn with beautiful women who don't seem to know the word 'no' this site can have a bit of a 'kid in a candy store' effect. I'm not shilling here - I found the quantity of stuff so overwhelming that I browsed longer than I would at other sites before downloading. This is certain to be a long-term membership.
There seems to be a debate about value. In my opinion this is a great value at the price. I really like Diabolic's stuff so the price seems more than fair to me.
I give full marks to a studio with the balls to let us download their stuff.
Follow-Up:
Now that the 'new car' lustre is gone I'd like to make a few comments. This is still an excellent site in terms of content, but the download speeds are TERRIBLE. You need to use an accelerator but that adds to the cost. I emailed the webmaster to ask if there was a problem on their end and got no reply.
If you like Diabolic's stuff this is a great site, but you will need an accelerator.
I also had some trouble cancelling my membership. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Exclusive video content
Seems like all Diabolic titles are in there
Nice picture galleries
Cheap trial
NO DRM downloads |
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Monthly price is a bit high |
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I thought this site was great in comparison to most other video production company sites. You can download or stream all the movies/scenes (looks like the just up'd the size of the quality of the download files too), easy to use, crazy amount of search capibilities, fast servers and it's updated with new titles all the time. Much improved over the previous diabolic.com site.
As a fan of Diabolic movies, there newer content has greatly improved over the past 6 months (looks like it shot better, cleaner and higher production value) and I think there all new site works well for them.
Over all, a great site for a great company. |
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