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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- It’s Videobox, one of the largest sites on the internet
- Huge collection of videos (7500+ DVDs)
- No DRM
- Different file sizes for different download capabilities
- Five updates a day
- Seem to listen to user comments and complaints
- Adding more older (1990s) DVDs |
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- Sometimes bigger isn’t always better
- Quality of some of the videos is questionable
- It’s fairly clear they push quantity over quality |
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Yes, I know Videobox has been reviewed here many times before so I won’t simply rehash everything that you can read below.
I’ve said this before – if you’re new to collecting internet porn a membership at this site is essential. Most porn video stores wouldn’t have the volume that VB has. If you’re just starting out this will take you much more than a month to get through unless you have a really narrow niche you’re looking for. The other site a newbie needs to spend some time at is American Vice. I’m amazed that VB and AV don’t overlap much more than they do. The up-side to this is that you can download from one knowing that you probably won’t find it on the other.
I first took out a VB membership in 2005 and maintained that without a break until late 2008. After that I switched to taking a monthly membership a few times a year. If you’re new to the site, expect to stay a while.
There have been some subtle changes that I’ve noticed over the past little while. One is that they seem to have been listening to a lot of complaints by users that the DVDs were heavily skewed to anal themes. Some people took to calling the site “AnalBox.” In my current stay at VB I can report that there does appear to be a reduction in anal themed DVDs. I’ll leave it to you to decide if this is good or bad. (The Rearadmiral, though, thinks it’s bad.) In my opinion, the switch away from anal (which I never thought was out of proportion with the industry – anal is popular people!) means that VB doesn’t have some anal scenes from some of the hottest new girls in the biz. Stars like Aubrey Addams and Dakoda Brookes do anal, but there aren’t a lot of their anal scenes on VB. I suspect that this is partly a response to complaints.
There are also a lot more European videos. Some of these are decent, many aren’t. When they promise five updates a day they have to have access to a lot of videos and they seem to have sourced a lot from Europe. I like European movies, but I prefer U.S. stuff because I find it easier to keep track of the stars I like.
Anal or not, one issue is that they really seem to focus on quantity over quality. Some of the videos are really bad. I mean generally bad, not just “I don’t like this fetish’ bad.
One thing I liked was that they are also adding some older (1990s) titles. Yes, I know this is a preference thing too, but it does add to the variety.
Apart from adding a lot of European content they are obviously continuing to expand their American lines too. Since my last membership they’ve added J.M. Productions, for example.
Overall, this site remains a must-have membership if you like porn DVDs. You can’t please everyone all the time, but this site tries and frequently succeeds.
(Please note that nothing above is intended to apply to the two extra-cost bonus sites. I’ve not had a membership to either and can’t say anything about them.) |
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rearadmiral wrote 1 review (07-16-07) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score. |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
lots of content. great navigation and search options |
| Cons: |
a lot of the content isn't great and the site seems to have more quantity than quality |
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it's a huge site and it's easy to find stuff that would appeal to everyone, but once you've done this you don't watch the vast majority of the movies. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Enormous amount of content: 7500 dvds and over 40000 scenes
- Great price at $14.95 / mo
- Stream or download
- Incredible amount of updates: 5 DVDs / day
- Easy to use webdesign |
| Cons: |
- Video quality doesn't go beyond "dvd"
- Lots of their stuff seem to be rather outdated and / or older
- Mediocre download speeds
- No pictures (not a problem for me, but might be for some)
- Video 'search bar' acting weird |
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All in all I personally was extremely satisfied with my experience. I joined at the rate of $14.95 / mo and stayed for one month... at this price I believe you get an at least very decent deal for your money. The amount of content is simply overwhelming.
I liked the way the content was organized into categories, and especially that they didn't create twice the amount of them just to have a different 'folder' for a few videos they have. On the other hand the search function - as others have reported as well - was acting weird at times, but it didn't bother that much, I usually just got lost in browsing like mad man. There are other ways to find what you're looking for, for example by using the 'newest', 'recommended', 'top scenes this week' or some other filters.
There are no pictures whatsoever, except for the DVD covers and a few screenshots that you use for searching. It didn't bother me at all, I'm a 'video guy'. Video quality was OK. I'm one that would enjoy nice HD footage every once in a while, but most of the time I'm rather looking at the content of the video rather than its quality; as long as it reaches a 'watchable' level, I'm OK with it. With that being said, offering only DVD quality and below is a little bit outdated, but I think it fits the profile of the whole site at the end. You get different .wmv formats (high and medium) and a few extras (such as iphone / ipod formats). Streaming worked just fine for me. That top 'search bar' was a kind of difficult to understand... I guess you should be able to see the frames where you're trying to get, but as it was mentioned earlier too, it's so inaccurate that it was almost useless (you really don't get where you think you scrolled on it). This was a little bit of an inconvenience, but nothing major.
Download speeds varied. Sometimes it was just fine, especially when doing multiple downloads at the same time, but sometimes it slowed down to the point I'd consider bothering.
Overall I was pretty satisfied with my month spent at Videobox. For those who want pictures, top quality HD material, or maybe just have been browsing porn for 'too' long, this site might be repetitive and outdated and not so much of interest. Otherwise it offers an amazing amount of content, and a user interface that can be lived with, especially considering the price you're paying.
ps.: As an extra note, a friend of mine took a look at it who was interested in their real milf selection (where 20 year olds in high heels don't qualify as milf :-) ), and he was pleasantly surprised with the amount of actual good content available; according to him including series, and parts of series that he hasn't found anywhere else earlier. |
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Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+Amazing site.
+They have over 7500 dvds and counting.
+They useuly add 5 dvds daily so your getting around 150 dvds a month.
+Browsing is very easy.
+Also they have a very wide range in their selection everything from amature to tranny.
+Download speeds are nice I'm able to download 6 different sceens at once deppending on the size of the file. Ive tried going all the way up to ten at a time but some sceens just dont make it. |
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One bad part about the site is when your trying to find a pornstar a lot of time when you type in a name 6 different girls pop up all with the same name.
Another Con is that they dont have any bonus sites. |
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Again its an amazing site. 150 new dvds a month is well worth the price.
I would deffintly recomend the site. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
No other site has this huge amount of videos.
Still better/easier navigation - it's plain simple. (not including search)
Nice price.
Custom-clips for downloading shorter previews
A lot of different categories
Ok download-speed
Fine daily updates
DL-manager allowed
Great latin-material |
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Search-machine stinks - search for A and you get B.
Old videos market as new
Too many anal-videos
Quality varies too much
Not much difference in video-quality if you choose the higher price
Too many videos put in here are the ones you can buy for $1
'No personality' - all in here seems pretty 'impersonal'
Pornstar-search is almost useless - see below |
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Most PUs have been at this site several times - and we go back again and again, why?
Maybe because VideoBox has that endless amount of clips where you can hope to find those really special ones.
BUT - most of the times you get dissapointed - mainly because the motherload here consists on DVDs or videos that are for sale at any low-price porndealer out there... but here you get it at home - for - yes, still: a low price.
I do not expect to find the top-material here - but ok, maybe 1 out of a hundred, you still catch up with great videos - after a loooooong search.
Some damn fine latinas are my latest - see Marcellinha Moraes in 'Full Service Fucking' - for one.
And you can get lucky to find some fine videos of some favorites - Get lucky?
Yes, because the search-machine is horrible - for both categories and pornstars:
Categories: Search for Blondes - and you get hundreds of everything else, search for masturbation - and you get hundreds of Gonzos.
Pornstars: They got a major problem here - hire some PU - and it will get them much better help about the right names - AND the right scenes - ok, out of over 64000 videos, it's got to be a job - but still: You find too many models under wrong names - and the same model with up to four different names.
Still VideoBox has its force - when you get fed up with the same deal at more special sites, you can just go browsing and browsing and browsing here.
BUT: Major bottomline is still the lack of top-quality videos - they are too rare here - no matter to which price you choose to join.
The 85-score goes mostly to the vast amount and the - sometimes - joy of an almost endless search (without the search-machine of VideoBox) you got to choose you own speciel way here...
Gave it a 95 in an earlier review - but times are changing and the main cons are that VideoBox does NOT keep up in viewing quality for most videos... |
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Denner wrote 1 review (11-15-08) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score. |
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
* Can search for movie titles or models
* Massive contents, currently has 7500 DVDs in many categories.
* Price is very reasonable
* DVD Video quality is good for half the time (See the cons for the other half)
* Good download speed, can use download manager. |
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The aspect ratio of DVD quality videos (especially wmv) is wrong for half the times. While most videos are meant to be viewed with aspect ratio 4:3(except for newer ones at 16:9), Videobox encoded them to aspect ratio 3:2. As the result, the screen is stretched wider, so is the girls' faces or bodies. While this is not obvious to most users, but once it comes to my attention, it becomes quite frustrating. Correct me if I'm wrong
Here a scenario: having downloaded a 25 minute scene which could take up 800 Mb, way too large for a non HD video(thanks to extra encoding to stretch the screen wider), and you end up with a video which doesn't look quite right.
The provided DVD quality h.264 videos don't have this problem. They save disk space, but they can be a a bit grainy due to high compression during encoding.
Besides, the model directory leaves out a lot models' names appear in the DVD scenes. You better off using the search box, but then you need to know the name of the girl |
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Has very annoying aspect ratio problem(I sent Video box my feedback twice, but only got auto responses). Need a completed model directory. Still can not find another website which matches its huge content. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+Quality
+Content
+Variety
+Notable Stars
+Consistency
+POSSIBLY THE BEST OVERALL SITE OUT THERE?
+Bang for your Buck |
| Cons: |
No Cons |
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The greatest site out there for a collector or anyone else for that matter. Collection swells with this site, for very little price. Lots of variety - lots of great older content. Awesome site.
Membership ended yesterday, will join again in 3-6 months. |
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Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
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08-26-09 07:25am (Update History)
Reason: Added feature about chosing videos based on personal preferences and saving scenes and porn stars.
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| Pros: |
Lots of content.
Can search for content by category, porn star, studio, DVD title.
Multiple download options.
Great streaming options.
Great value for money.
5 new videos a day - seven days a week.
New Feature: You can embed a streaming video to
your own blog or webpage!
Great feature - The ability to select scenes based on your personal preferences. You can go to the My Videobox tab and then the Preferences' tab and rate 42 different categories. The rating scale goes from "Agh, my eyes" to "Hell yes". After you select your viewing preferences Videobox then chooses several scenes (multiple pages) based on your criteria.
You can save your favorite scenes, DVDs and porn stars. |
| Cons: |
Not exclusive but that is more than offset by the quality and quantity of porn offered. |
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Video Box is my standby. I have been a member for over 2 years. The price is super if you opt for the one year subscription because Video Box throws in another 6 months for a total 18 month subscription.
If you are looking for good quality, diverse porn you should give VB a try. You will not be disappointed. |
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Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Great DVD Quality.
Navigation is easy.
Search for several categories at once.
Custom Clips.
User Reviews for each DVD and Scene.
FAST DOWNLOADS.
No DRM.
You can Resume downloads
Download Managers are okay.
Scene Caps.
Customer Service is quick and helpful.
5 new DVDs every day.
Blog.
Vivid and Evil Angel Options. (I signed up for Vivid) |
| Cons: |
No exclusive content.
No HQ Pics, but who really cares?
I wish they didn't have Transsexual content. Not very often that they do, but it sure can kill a moment. |
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This is a MUST HAVE membership!!!
Make sure you get your discount through "The Best Porn". |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- huge amount of content
- easy browsing and downloading (you can estimate how easy the browsing is by looking at the free preview, I have rarely seen such a well done preview)
- regular and massive updates
- countless niches and once more: A LOT of content
- very reasonable price
- great blog entries and a nice community
- nice options of saving videos/ editing them |
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- the content is all from dvd's so not real fresh faces or exclusive content
- the new premium offers make browsing a bit more difficult (if you only have the basic membership you must make sure to de-select the premium content)
- sometimes the streaming player freezes and you have to download a video to see it |
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This is simply the most porn for the price, and the most varied too. From teens to milfs and fat porn they have it all. I think they only miss gay but they have a special site for that too. The errors are minor and I will become a member again soon.
The only reason I didn't give it 100 is becuase I never tried contacting the staff but they seemed a bit distant, and the website (the streaming player part) can be a bit buggy. However, unless you want a niche of porn this is a great deal. |
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