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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Huge collection of DVDs
- Many top studios
- TBP / PU discount
- Supports download mangers (with some limitations)
- None of the studios on the site are low-grade
- Something for most tastes
- Some unique and rare niches represented
- Many viewing and download options
- Many ways to sort the scenes |
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- Some overlap with other Fame sites
- Links time-out too quickly
- Too many older scenes don’t list the female talent
- No search function |
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I’ve really liked and highly recommended most (if likely all) of the Fame sites that I’ve reviewed and Fame Digital is no exception. This site offers a huge amount of high-quality porn for an amazing price.
For readers not familiar with any of the Fame sites, they offer DVD downloads from several major studios like Devil’s Film, Silverstone and Evil Angel. The same studios are represented here and there is some overlap with other Fame sites but unless you’ve recently been a member at several Fame sites you’re still going to find a lot of material here that wasn’t on the other sites.
The main page is simple and effective: you have a choice of displaying the available scenes by individual scenes or by DVD. There is a drop-down menu listing all the DVDs on the site and ability to sort by the usual porn themes. You can also view by studio or by model. There are a lot of options for sorting the huge amount of material here, but there is no way to specifically search for anything: there is no search function available. While this is certainly a shortcoming, the many different options for sorting minimize the need to search. In most cases you can still find what you want but you may need to use a few more steps than with just an effective search function.
The site currently has over 3350 DVDs. My thought is that a lot of sites that try to please all tastes generally fail, but this site offers a wide variety of porn but still remains appealing. You’ll find all the usual porn niches here, like legal teens, anal, lesbian, etc., but you’ll also find a pretty substantial collection of transsexual and bisexual material. You’ll also find rarer niches like pegging and ‘grandmas.’ I’m not into the niches that I just mentioned so I can’t really give an opinion, but if you’re specifically looking for some of them this site has them, but they aren’t the main attraction here. The site is by far a conventional site that just happens to have some different ‘spices’ if you’re so inclined. (And if you’re like me and not so inclined, there aren’t enough of these niche DVDs that you feel cheated.) As for the more conventional porn, it runs the gamut from hard-hardcore (like Rocco Siffredi) to ‘artcore’ (from the Daring Film studio.) Regardless of what your tastes are all the DVDs I downloaded have one thing in common: the production values are second to none in the industry. Unlike other sites that seem to promote quantity over quality, Fame Digital doesn’t rely on ‘filler.’
One thing I especially liked about the site was the availability of older series and titles. Obviously the download options are fewer for these older scenes, but just having access to them is a big plus.
Like other Fame sites, there is no shortage of viewing options. Streaming is available in multiple resolutions, downloads are available in two formats (WMV and mp4) and in multiple resolutions. Obviously the resolution options are fewer with older material, but most of the newer DVDs offer the scenes in up to four WMV resolutions and up to 7(!!) mp4 resolutions – and that’s not counting separate downloads for mobile devices which offer a further number of resolutions. Many of the newer scenes offer both 720p and 1080p. Also on offer for newer scenes is 540p, which the site calls “Web HD.” This is an excellent option for people like me who watch most of their porn on a monitor. This is higher than the 480p that most sites offer (and is still offered here) without having to download a large 720p file. The 540p files come in at 960x540 at 1800kb/s and 30fps. The 720p come in at 1280x720 at 4800 and 30fps.
The site does offer photos but this is definitely NOT a photo site. The photos are shot during the scenes (but aren’t screencaps) and look good, but the main (unforgivable) flaw is that there are no zips.
The site isn’t perfect but the flaws are so insignificant that they don’t detract from the value. Like all Fame sites, download managers are supported but the links time-out fairly quickly so it isn’t possible to queue up a lot of files at once. Older titles often don’t list any performers, and with many of the European titles (like Rocco’s stuff) the female talent isn’t always credited. There may be three girls in a scene but only one name is given. Minor, but still annoying.
The one flaw that I think really does detract from the site is that they frequently don’t upload all the scenes from a DVD. In one case, for example, Tanner Mayes is the cover girl but her scene isn’t available. (And Fame, I take that as a personal insult!)
The bottom line is that this is an exceptionally good value for the TBP/PU discounted price (and still good without it). This is a huge amount of high quality porn on a site with a simple but effective layout with multiple viewing and download options. I highly recommend joining. I know I’ll be back. |
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Amazing price at $9.95 p/mo
- Extensive catalog of women
- Solid quality
- Download speeds very good |
| Cons: |
- Very poor search functionality
- Navigation needs improvement
- Needs comment and tagging
- Allow partial scene downloads
- WATCH FOR PRE-CHECKED CROSS SELL!!! |
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I maintain a membership here simply for its history, plus I love the Peter North "Swallow" series.
For $10, who can complain? Seriously, the content is overwhelming. But, not much needs to happen to improve it.
First off, allow keyword searching. You can search pornstars, why not keywords? This is complain #1 from most everybody with this site.
Next, allow user comments. Let users add keywords if its too much trouble. For example, if a girl swallows, don't label it "facial". If there is smoking in a video, tell me. Etc... If the content providers won't expand, the user community will.
Also, improve navigation. Allow downloading from the search results or movie content pages. There are too many clicks.
Finally, how about giving us a money shot download option? I love sites that allow you to download portions, as we all don't want a 600 mb download if we are only interested in the last 2 minutes.
All in all though, a site worth joining. With some minor changes, could be a site I never left. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
-Excellent price through TBP, $9.95
-Download managers work (DTA)
-No DRM
-Huge archive, 10726 straight scenes across network (1374 are HD but streaming only). 2614 photosets.
-Wide variety of content, from euro ladies to grannies to indian
-Video quality is acceptable, best I saw was 720x400 2000 kbps wmv
-Download speeds are decent, I typically got 1 MB/s using DTA
-Have scene ratings, favorites, and user comments
-Scenes have tags, but not exactly useful for a site this large
-Decent update schedule, about 1 DVD per day it seems |
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-Older content is of variable quality
-Navigation can be a bit annoying, a lot of scenes duplicated across titles. Not sure if they are counting the duplicates in their total.
-No zip downloads of phototsets that I found
-Not sure why the even bother having the multiple sites. I guess it is just for organization
-Few users seem to participate in the comments, or ratings. I have yet to see a comment on any of the scenes.
-Search function consists of pull-down menus with long lists of model names, movie names, etc. Not particularly functional
-No HD video downloads, streaming only
-Largely gonzo porn, although there are some parodies to be found, and some scenes with plots.
-Material can get repetitive, and is almost entirely hardcore. |
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This site is definitely worth visiting, especially for the price, however its main drawback is the same as for many sites of this nature like Videobox and VideosZ, it is big and there is a lot of junk to sort through. Generally I like the content they produce, although I wouldn't suspect many would download more than 1% of it unless they had a boatload of time on their hands.
Overall I consider this a site worth joining at least once, definitely given the price. It would be nice if they made some improvements to navigation and added a more robust search function. It would be nice if more users participated with comments like on Videobox, but I guess there isn't really anything they can do to force the issue.
I generally find the model quality on this site to be slightly above their DVD competitors, but I consider their video quality to be slightly worse. The HD looked nice when streaming, but I am really not one for streaming so didn't watch too much of it. I particularly like that the model type is somewhat more variable than on similar sites, although it isn't super ethnically diverse.
If you haven't been a member before and have time to dig through it all, it is definitely a place to consider if you are into hardcore DVD content. |
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