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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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05-14-09 10:01am (Update History)
Reason: Slow speeds, broken links, difficulty cancelling, webmaster stopped being responsive.
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| Pros: |
+ Large selection of videos. As of this date, over 4300 DVDs with over 23000 scenes.
+ Daily update consisting of two - three videos.
+No DRM
+ Attractive Layout. Easy searching. A good selection of bonus sites.
+ Excellent price for our members. |
| Cons: |
- Non exclusive contents.
- Links that lead to scenes other than the ones requested.
- Search could be better when looking to narrow down one's choice of video or segment.
- Navigation within the site is slow and sticky.
- Picture sets are not zipped, however that's a small flaw in a site that is primarily a Video Archive.
- Most Bonus sites allow streaming only.
- Too many steps to sign in. |
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In the original review I found this a very good site for the price. At the time I didn't run into any of the problems mentioned by other users but during the term of my second subscription experienced most if not all of the problems others before had with the site.
There are many DVDs I have seen already on Videobox but that's to be expected in an archive. Picture quality varies from so-so to good, depending on the age of the video and the state of the technology at the time.
First time I unsubscribed just to make sure that the process was uncomplicated and that users' complaints that they were forced to make long distance calls in order to cancel no longer had any validity my cancellation went flawlessly and I received an acknowledgment on the same day.
This time around ... see below.
May 14:
Review was downgraded by 15 points because the fast speed turned out to be an illusion. Once in a while it would meet its target but most of the time it was painfully slow.
Webmaster stopped responding to email after a couple of critical but justified remarks (see my remarks upper right of page).
Many links in bonus site are broken. Watching HD contents on some of the bonus sites has turned out to be painful because of all the stops because of slow speed. Webmaster was informed of difficulties but never responded making me feel that I was being used first time around.
Cancellation is unnecessarily difficult with no acknowledgment of the transaction. Three separate attempts to get the Billing company (owned by site?) to re-assure me went unanswered. Three emails to the webmaster in connection with the same subject went unanswered.
It appears that all the criticism by others re. speed, cancellation, broken links etc. was justified and I apologize for my original positive review. |
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Extension Collection of DVD's
No DRM
Videos Offered in various formats |
| Cons: |
Navigation needs work.
Most DIVX AVI files download complete 100% but 1 out of 3 finish with errors, unplayable.
Session Timeouts, must remain active on the site or you will have to re-login with username, password, email or pin and type the 4 words shown on a image.
No queue while using a download manager.
Session timeout. Some larger files will stop downloading and a message "error, file has moved on the server" or "server session timeout" |
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Navigation needs work, some DVDs are encoded in one large single file, which may or may not download completely due to server session timeout.
DIVX AVI files have always been kind of tricky, a hit or miss. Some files will download completely but are unplayable because of download errors.
Yes this site has a lot of content.
But too many issues with the download aspect.
I wouldnt refer or suggest this site. Pass on DownloadPass. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Incredible array of content
-Good layout and navigation
-different video size options
-Good porn star listing |
| Cons: |
-Multiple site join ups
-Older vids lack good res quality |
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This site has a lot of potential as a porn supermarket where all can be had. There is something here for all. However, I am downgrading the rating from an 80 to a 65 because of the sneaky multiple site join ups they push on you. When you join up you also get 2 more sites that need to be canceled independently. These sites are not so good - bad to fair quality vids and they are expensive. They are for 1 and 2-day trials before you get charged $39.97 and $43.17. Plus the phone customer service people for these other sites where kind of sleazy and aloof - promising you a cancellation e-mail that never came when you canceled over the phone. It's as if they were snearing at you on the other end of the phone for paying for porn sites. Others on this review board have also noticed the deceptive. When you sign up for the DOWNLOAD PASS you have to make sure you scroll all the way down the page to cancel these deceptive sign ups. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Good selection and variety, frequent updates are shown as available. |
| Cons: |
New DVDs often don't contain any image clips or can't be downloaded at all. When a DVD is released, if they make it available, only one scene becomes available over several weeks. There is no help site or option on the website. No tech support if you have questions or problems. When trying to cancel, cancellation option does not work and you have to call their number in your confirmation email. |
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Waste of time and money, there are much better sites are available. If you want to browse and download old DVDs, it has a good collection, but new releases are available. |
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Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ ofcourse a lot of content
+ options to search are very complete
+ No drm
+ everything downloadedable at a good speed
+ because of the big collection something for everyboy
+ random dvd
+ streaming speed |
| Cons: |
- site is not stable, like searching can hang on there site, taking with you're complete session en neeed to restart browser
- navigation often to slow
- no way of knowing if a scene is flash or wmv
- a way to build search critiria ontop of each other (like AND in a query) |
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good site with lots of content, but it is a dvd archive so nothing is exclusive witch is ok, so the value lays in the site, how does it react and feel. well i think there should be some work done here, may get the navigation up to the standard of now. it's not terrieble but do think that with an little bit of effort this can improve a lot. also maybe there should be a system of voting on niches so certain niches can grow faster, coz of customer wishes. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Pretty big and cheap $14.95 video site, over 2,000 DVDs
- The biggest plus for me is the older content that includes over 10 Adrianne Sage scenes, and several other models that most DVD sites don't have much material of.
- Quality of video is around average 570 on high end, bitrate needs to be improved as it is only 1000k
- Updates are consistent
- Site navigation is pretty much click and go |
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- That bitrate of 1000k is really starting to chug when watched on a high end computer, after watching ones over 2,000k.
- Not as many video of newer actresses, only 3 Eva Angelina clips?
- Plenty of clunkers amongst the 2,000+ DVDs
- Once you have been on here for a month there really isn't much reason to come back for 6 months or so. |
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This was the last of my DVD sites for this month. I won't say it is disappointing, but it doesn't measure up to the top DVD sites, really isn't that close either. If you like late 90s porn better than the new stuff you can at least get more of it here than any other site I have been on, which is one thing that really helps this site.
They have some strange videos as well, trannies seem to be normal these days on DVD sites, but also on here, the midget series. I do like that they also have a nice sized collection of Euro porn. You would be surprised how many of those Euro models who are just posing and doing solo now, are popping up in these slightly older Euro DVDs.
I like the older stuff, mid to late 90s, and if you do as well, it would be worth checking this site out. I also really like the navigation. You can search by series, studio, new releases and pornstar. Then you can go to the model index where they have what looks to be a 200x200 avatar of each porn star so you can get a good look at her.
It is the little things also that help this site at least be worth the money. I wish the video quality was a little better, if nothing else, higher bitrates. The resolution is near 600 on the high end so that isn't too bad. While I wouldn't join it more than maybe 1 time every 6 months, I will be coming back and making it a normal site for my porn site rotation. Check the excellent preview out to see the content they have. Recommended! |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
No DRM
Reasonable Price
Loads of content
Pretty good navigation |
| Cons: |
Video quality is not up to par
Content can be found on many sites
Updates are not as frequent as they should
Just not unique |
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Download Pass is kind of a yawn. They have content that can be found in higher quality on many other sites. They really need to update the quality of their videos. C'mon, most of us have high-speed connections now.
Reccommendation: I would take my money elsewhere |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Good amount of content
Reasonably quick page to page
Screenshots are useful to look through a video first to see if you want to download it |
| Cons: |
Favorites don't work - you can "successfully" add things, but they aren't there
No double penetration/DP filter - first time I've ever seen a site without
No support available for problems or complaints
I used a unique email address to sign up - this was instantly passed out and spammed!!! :(
Download managers are not supported
Frequent "your session has expired" issues when trying to download
No resume supported on downloads which often failed part way through |
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Passing your email address out to a spammer is pretty disgusting, glad I didn't use my main email address.
Lots of problems actually downloading from "download pass" and no support or contact whatsoever.
Very disappointing overall. |
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
This is an excellent DVD site. It's really good - with great search-features, etc.
But there are maybe 12 great DVD sites out there which all sit in the shadow of VideoBox, which is the premier site in this category. They're all non-exclusive and largely overlap in content with maybe 80% of the same DVD's. So if Videobox today has 3400+ disks, and DownloadPass has .. 2300+ .. Realistically, if you've belonged to Videobox, you get maybe 200+ non-overlapping disks with DownloadPass. |
| Cons: |
It's loading 2 disks a day as opposed to VideoBox's 5 disks a day (much of which is junk).
It's unbelievable to say it, considering what a terrific value both sites are, but considering the overlap, in this hypercompetitive business there might be better uses for your cash. |
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It's worth it for the variety. The 200 or so new/different disks is a fairly large # - and many of those are high-quality vids. And this is a quality site in it's execution. It's definitely not a scam, and it's not too expensive. Don't hesitate to sign up if you're curious and can afford it. |
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