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| Pros: |
+ALOT of VIDEO content
+Videos cover alot of niches and cater to alot of tastes.
+Several download options.
+Their content can be found on other sites, but most of their videos, especially newer stuff, can only be found on their site.
+Comes with access to 3rd Degree Movies and Black Ice.
+Price is decent...not great.
+Updates fairly regularly. |
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-----Site navigation and design is beyond horrible. Seriously, this is amateur bullshit, and even most amateur sites have better design.
-Many times, Ive clicked on a movie, then clicked on a scene I wanted to see, only to be directed to a completely different scene.
-Video quality for many videos is shit. Not the definition, just many that were encoded extremely poorly.
-Customer service doesnt seem to care much.
-Have some picture sets, but they are poor quality and no zip file for them. |
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UPDATE: Wow, so I wrote this review, and shortly after checked 3rd Degree, and they must have recently changed to the same shitty site design.
I bumped the score up to 70. The site design and navigation is dreadful, but you adjust to its crap factor.
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I was just browsing the site and trying to look at different scenes, only to be redirected to scenes I wasnt looking for....even though the URL said it was the movie I clicked on.
I just had to do a quick review. I was going to review this, 3rd Degree and Black Ice together, but this one deserved its own review. The other sites are much better overall. ZTOD, however, must be run by incompetent assholes.
What annoys me the most is that a couple years ago when I was a member, the navigation was fine...much like 3rd Degree. NOW...its almost like they wanted to come up with a cool new layout for the site, but halfway through designing it they just said "fuck it!"....and we are left with this garbage. That, or they just decided to fuck things up for their customers on purpose, neither of which would really surprise me.
Bottom line: The only reason I recommned this at all is because you get 3rd Degree and Black Ice with it, so if you like their stuff, its worth a month. However, ZTOD is a mess. You can tinker with it while you are a member...maybe youll have better luck than I. But if you are joining mainly for the ZTod content, I strongly recommned you find other means of getting their content, because their site, while not a complete ripoff, is just not worth any kind of real investment. There are far better places to spend your money. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
1. Underlying videos are often high quality in terms of the actual scene itself. It is unfortunate that what appears to be deliberate poor video encoding is used to ruin the quality of the content.
2. The majority of the ZTOD catalog from
2008 on is available (although scenes are substituted - see below) |
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(please keep in mind these cons are for a throttled user that the site is trying to encourage to log off with poor quality and bad user interface. A user who logs in for 10-30 minutes every couple of days will likely get another experience)
1. Exhibit high usage and the site "upgrades" but the copyright notices are years earlier. The "upgraded" site will lack search capabilties and will not display dates of videos, names of performers or videos or allow multi-category searching.
2. Throttling is present. The slower the site will get and videos will disappear.
3. Downloads - particularly 1080p - are encoded in ways to make bloated, poor quality mp4.
Technically, >20 files checked the ratio of P (prediction) to I(key) frames was 19:1. A typical ratio is 2:1. I frames aka key frames are the actual images while p frames are the compression. During action the key frames shrink making details too blurry to see. Expect most downloads to be poorer than DVD quality. |
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If you are the type of person who just wants to get online and view a video or two to get off, then long off, and don't intend to download anything this site could be for you. The quality should be great.
But if you like to download or watch for hours on end prepare to be throttled severely and to find the videos you download are severely color distorted and bloated. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
HD downloads
Good range of models
Lots of content
Fair pricing
Ok-ish update frequency |
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Navigation inconveniences
Cross sales |
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I use to join ztod every couple of months to get the latest movies and, thanks to the pretty good quality of the scenes, I never regretted my decision. ZTOD is a very solid site with loads of content covering almost every niche, so no complaints here.
However, navigation and browsing options of the site are a bit of a drawback. Some examples:
- The model index does not have a "filter by letter" option. You can browse all models alphabetically (which is about 68 pages), but not, for example, display all models starting with "S". Considering the fact that model stage names tend to have different spellings from site to site, finding the model you're looking for can be a bit hard.
(- On the scene selection screen, you can't right click a scene and open it in a new tab, which is quite inconvenient. I usually right click/new tab a few scenes that might be interesting and then check them out one by one.)
Edit: I just found out you *can* rightclick scenes and open them in a new tab by clicking the "x downloads" link below the scene
- Viewing a scene online doesn't allow skipping beyond the buffered part, "into the black". This is the biggest issue I have, because buffering is not exactly fast.
When I downloaded some files today, I got booted a couple of times. The download would just stop and IDM gave me an error message, recommending me to download the file again (which wasn't neccessary though, it would just pick up the download and continue it). I'm not entirely sure if that problem is on my side or server sided. Since I'm downloading quite a lot from other sites, I assume it's server side, but I can't say for sure. I'll keep watching the problem and post a comment in the next couple of days.
Conclusion:
ZTOD is one of the sites that you can't go wrong with. The sheer ammount and quality of the content won't dissapoint you. If you can live with some minor browsing inconveniences, I'd recommend this site. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Around 6,400 scenes (around 1900 anal, maybe around 1000 teen, the rest is pretty standard hardcore. Around 2700 HD )
- Videos are available in several options Avi, Wmv, The HD is 1080 and looks pretty good. They also have Ipod formats and streaming is available in several formats so it could probably work on tablets and other such fancy devices too.
- Around 4,100 image galleries (not very high res 600px × 900px, but they have zip archives so at least that) slideshow option available too.
- Very nice navigation. One of the best I've seen in a while. They have a nice category filter as well as all sorts of break downs by actors/ update time, and so forth. Good, robust site design, very professional.
- Nice bonus features for members such as a history of all scenes you watched. This makes it easy to find a scene you remember, but can't find.
- A lot of interesting DVD series and all major porn stars are here. Very good selection of mainstream stuff with a focus on buts and anal |
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First of all I want to say that this site is one of the best mainstream sites I've visited in a while and as such the cons are mostly personal and highly subjective (take with a grain of salt).
- The scenes are a bit mainstream, if you want a specific niche this is probably not your site. Even the more specific stuff (like their stocking stuff) is filmed and edited like mainstream stuff and feels like it. Also all actresses seem to have that mainstream look to them. However if you like DVD porn this is a pretty good site.
- Like all major porn sites recently they seem to have a bunch of spoofs/ parodies. This particular site seems to focus on spoofing horror movies and TV shows (silence of the lambs porn anyone? how about to catch a predator?) It's mostly a personal opinion but some things should not be spoofed into porn.
- Some older content is really poor quality and like most huge catalogs of porn quality of scenes can depend a lot from DVD to DVD |
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I feel that most major DVD porn studios really push the market to a different level. I mean it's hard to critique someone who offers almost 7000 scenes, each one around 20 minutes or so. Considering that around 3000 of those scenes are available as HD and we have a lot of very good looking models (Sasha Grey, Bree Olsen, April O'neil, Lexi Belle, etc.) doing hardcore action this site is a great deal.
However, like any mainstream site don't join this place expecting some very specific content. They are not focused on any one thing in particular so there is a good mix of action in the scenes with nothing too rough or crazy. They have some orgy scenes, a very decent amount of anal, but no BDSM, not that many actress interviews (a lot of the behind the scenes stuff is not very interesting IMO, just videos of the photo shoots) and no really amateur stuff.
Also, the models are for the most part well known and have the "porn star" look. There is a serious amount of make-up used here, a lot of strong lights and pretty standard DVD camera action.
Basically if you are looking for a very specific type of porn you'll probably have better luck somewhere else, but if you want to replace DVD's and like a good mix of scenes this is a great place to start.
Of course it all depends on what kind of porn you like and the content here falls strongly in the mainstream category. The lighting and camera work, while different from DVD to DVD was very professional, if a bit repetitive. The models look great, but have a bit of a "porn star" look to them (no Russian or exotic girls, although we get a good selection of black girls.)
On a personal level I felt like they focus a bit too much on spoofs recently with a bunch of TV shows (desperate housewives, deal or no deal, taxicab confessions) and several horror movies. I guess some people like them, but I felt like they were just a cheap way to attract attention. It's like watching a regular porn scene but at the end a guy in a mask shows up and there is some ridiculously fake blood thrown around. Guess it's a taste question but for me POV, no story porn is always better,
Another downside for me was that they don't really seem to care about photos as they only upload them in pretty small resolutions and although there is a slideshow option it never worked on my PC. Also a lot of the images are very similar (here is the girl a little to the left) This would be understandable if they offer 300 images, but they only have like 130 or so per scene.
Now that I got my critiques out of the way I have to mention some of the great aspects of the site. I love their navigation and web design. I think it's almost as good ad Videobox. The category search worked well for me, I love the history of all the scenes I have watched. There are options to upvote or comment on a scene (and the community if pretty funny at times). The download speeds were great for me and overall I have to say that the web masters here were true pros.
I already talked a bit about the content, but have to mention that they offer some great series like 2 young 2 fall in love, a bunch of ass and but related stuff. Overall I am certain you will find something that caters to your tastes.
Finally, they upload daily and have been very consistent for quite a while so no concerns there. A good site with good content for a pretty decent price. In my opinion clearly worth the price. |
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Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Loads of content
Excellent HD quality
Good value with thebestporn special pricing
High quality and good variety of models
Consistent download speeds and site allows download managers (IDM works perfectly) |
| Cons: |
Picture navigation is a bit clumsy, although this site is really about the video.
Some extremely large file sizes for orgy scenes means files can't be stored on Fat32 (would suggest slpit scene option for these).
Although I appraciate this is a mainstream site some more Niche content would be benificial.
Some older videos do not work due to be outdated DRM videos (note: the site is no longer DRM).
Black Ice content is not as strong as ZTOD or 3rd degree content but this could be down to taste. |
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A very high quality and consistent site which is definately worth a 3 month investment. This is the site which I have had the longest membership of due to the large amount of quality HD videos and a good variety of girls and content. I would recommend this to any mainstream porn watchers and some who waver between mainstream and niche, some niche content is present but it could benefit from more. |
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