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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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+Large library of movies
+All of Matrix Content movies are provided in high quality; more scenes are offered than what is available on official site
+Regular update schedule (2 movies/day)
+Cheap!!! $7.95/mo? WHOAAAA
+Several qualities of WMV available
+Download button changes to "Already downloaded" after you have downloaded a scene. Good for future visits.
+Site search function
+Much improved layout from older days
+Flash streaming available
+Took the time to remaster all older videos
+Extremely HQ images of the movie covers provided, higher than any other movie site (VideosZ, VideoBox, etc.)
+Upcoming additions page maintains a very long list of future additions, more than any other site I've seen.
+Good download speeds. |
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-Search function is not all that good. I will find myself using Google with the "site:dvdbox.com" operator more often than using the DVDBox site search function
-You will find a good amount of overlap, although there is a good amount of stuff you won't find on other movie archive sites (which is just the nature of these sites)
-The more popular download managers do not work with this site thanks to its PHP downloading system. But, Free Download Manager works with the site, I'm just not a big fan it but will use it for sites like DVDBox.
-They are worse than other movie sites in maintaining accurate cast lists and with tagging performer names on scenes (I'm still looking for a site that maintains near 100% accuracy).
-No sister Gay/Trans/Shemale site, thus all those particular movies are mixed in.
-All videos have watermarks which oddly say "Perfectwi.com", not "DVDBox.com"
-HQ movies are stretched to 720x480. |
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Excellent buy, highly recommended. I place this site as my #2 site behind VideoBox. The only thing holding it back is the library size, which, unfortunately, is not really threatening to overtake VideoBox (because of the addition rate being 3 fewer movies per day). Even with the smaller library, the overlap with VideoBox is actually not as high as say VideosZ is with VideoBox. And for $7.95/mo (I just checked and it says $7.95) you can't beat the price, especially since you are sort of getting two sites in one: DVDBox and MatrixContent (or Matrix HD, whichever). DVDBox, as mentioned in the PROS, has all of the Matrix Content videos that the official site has in higher quality than the official site (they actually have more videos than the official site to tell you the truth). $7.95/mo is a steal for this site.
A few negatives really stand out, though. First, the HQ movies are 720x480. I can't stand when sites don't provide 640x480, rather choosing 720x480. Do they not see that the image clearly looked stretched? Second, the inability to use my preferred download manager (FlashGet). PHP-based downloading systems are meant to thwart massive leeching, but it is annoying when you just want to queue up a couple scenes. Free Download Manager actually works with their site, I just don't prefer to use that program. Lastly, the poor search function. I do a search for a performer on the site and it doesn't return anything, but when I go to Google and search "site:dvdbox.com NAME" (where NAME is the name of the girl I am looking for) I get a plethora of results. It is really frustrating seeing that "0 results" from DVDBox when I know there is at least 1 result.
On a final note, the layout has been vastly improved since the old days. There was no search function (although the current one really isn't great to begin with), and the pornstar listing was not organized at all; there were double listings, things out of order, wacky column organization. Things have come a long way since then and the site is one of the best out there. |
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Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
more porn than you will ever have time to watch
niche material alongside regular porn
great value |
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the site could really do with the ability to search by scene. |
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I've been a member of this site for over year and I've downloaded far more porn than I've had time to watch. I don't have the technical understanding to comment on video quality but it seems fine to me.
There are tranny, bondage, various fetishes mixed in alongside the regular stuff, it's nice to try something different. There doesn't seem to be any gay stuff posted recently. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Decent quality videos
- Large video collection
- Actor index |
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- Slow speeds with download manager
- Can't resume downloads if paused or stopped
- Most videos, if not all, are from Porn Access
- Watermarked
- Join and cancel pages are misleading
- Can only download 6 files at a time |
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This site is a better organized version of Porn Access. All the videos that I have downloaded are from Porn Access, they have the watermarked Porn Access logo on the bottom or the other watermarks they use. The web site design of the "splash" enter pages are very virtually identical, there is definitely a connection between DVD Box and Porn Access.
The join and cancel pages of this site are unscrupulous. Beware, there is a check box you need to uncheck that automatically signs you up for Flashybabes.com for $1.95. The cancel page, when you finally find it after navigating through several links is equally devious. There are two buttons when you get to the cancellation page, one says "Confirm" the other says "No thanks!". The "No thanks!" is for not taking there offer to prolong your subscription and to cancel. If you are too hasty and aren't paying attention you could "Confirm" a monthly subscription, and not confirm a cancellation.
Ploys aside, it is a bit of a clone site with some good content if you don't mind having to babysit your downloads six at a time. If you've been to Porn Access you can probably skip this one. As for me, I have to write a review for Flashybabes. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
*Variety of different niches
*Niches not found on other popular video sites (gay, fetish, shemale, bi. pregnant)
*Has actors names listed (rare to see the guys names)
*Great price on 2 day full access trial |
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*Could use more search options to find categories
*Does not have videos of a lot of popular stars
*Many videos do not have the actress listed
*Preview pics could be more on target to niche (for instance, if the video is about titfucking, then at least one of the preview pics should show that)
*No pics of actresses in the search section |
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This site has a lot to offer and the price was reasonable. Particularly the trial. But, I chose not to renew to full subscription because it just didn’t fit my navigational style. On many scenes the actress field was left blank and I really like to find a good actress and then check out her scenes. I also don’t know most actresses by their names and since so many of them go by more than one name I like to have the actresses pics in the actress search by alphabet section. This site does not have them.
I didn't have any trouble with the downloading or quality of video, but I usually don't rate based on those things.
But, for the trial price it is definitely worth a look. The one thing this site has is a few niches that the bigger video sites do not cover well. Like shemales, gay and bisexual. I would not pay exclusively to see those but it is nice to check them out for a change in variety. I feel there are better alternatives in video sites for myself, but give it a try, it may be what you are looking for. |
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Lots of Content
Good array of niches
Daily updates
Decent site navigation
Upcoming Dvd section
Cheap price point
Offers movies in many formats
Streaming video so you can preview clip |
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Not exclusive content
Search function could use massive improvement
Favorites section can be frustrating
Streaming video is choppy(for me at least) |
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So here's the bottom line...if you've been to Videobox you'll find that this site is like it's kid brother. Smaller, slower and little dorky. But that's kinda why I liked this site. The dork factor.This site has a very good selection of fetish movies and for the weirdo in me this is great. Gay, latex, trannies, tattoos, bi etc. These are things I'd never really try in the bedroom, but it sure is fun to watch them sometimes. And unlike a lot of other sites, there isn't this aversion to gay porn. While I'm not gay, I'm not going to hate on the next guy's porn preference. Hey, we are equals when it comes to porn, so why hate right? Now none of the content is exclusive, and you will probably be able to find all the clips somewhere else, but probably not for such a low price. They also offer the option to convert the clips for you, but that can take awhile. By my count it took a week for the clip to be available in the requested format and then it only stays available for a couple of days which for a porn site, is a little strange. Who waits for a week to get a 20 minute clip? Another pet peeve of mine with the site is the favorites section. Before you mark it a favorite, it streams in a flash window, but once it is a favorite it streams in windows media player and most times the link is bad. Which makes it difficult to refind a scene you liked. The search function is utterly useless but for the price you can't really go wrong.Check it out for a month, you won't be too sad you did |
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