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House Of Taboo Review

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:09:08 PST

House Of Taboo (2)

01-02-12 10:09am

REVIEW = 95 by RustyJ (116)

Pros:
-Exceptionally high quality of production
-These guys have lots of ideas, good selection of props and shooting locations and apparently a large wardrobe
-Unlike most sites on DDF Network, this one is still updating almost entirely with all new, non recycled content
-Hot European models with good variety
-Frequent updates, many times a week
-Close to 650 existing scenes at the moment
-Wide variety of fetishes without too much softcore

Cons:
-Complete scenes are divided into up to four separate updates, some of which may contain some part totally uninteresting to one. For example pt1. spanking, pt2. toys, pt3. sex.
-Wide variety of fetishes unfortunately means you usually are not into some of them resulting in wasted updates
-The same few aging guys that apparently are 95% of euro porn male work force
-1080p in mp4 would be nice although wmv is good
-Image size starts feeling bit outdated at 2000 pixel wide
-Not the fastest downloads around, 5-7 megs a second is not bad though. Site can be a bit sluggish too at times
-Occassionally excessive file size. Almost one gigabyte per 10 minutes is too much. I've seen sharper reuslts with half the ratio using H.264

Bottom Line:
DDF Network currently has 13 different sub sites, each updating with different frequency and more or less new material. In my opinion House of Taboo is clearly the best site in the network when it comes to the quality, the originality and the freshness of material. House of Taboo features a variety of fetishes from spanking to pissing to bondage, latex and medical play. The best thing is that the site is quite hardcore too which cannot be taken for granted as sadly fetish often means softcore in the world of adult sites.

The counter side to the variety is of course the negative point that you only get so much of stuff that does anything to you if you are only into say spanking. Even though the site updates thrice a week, the number is in truth quite inflated since a single scene can be split into spanking section, toys section, sex section and pissing section, each posted separately. I for example only care about the middle two so half of one scenes updates can go by me. It's good to notice that the scenes on this site are almost entirely fresh ones and not recycled old ones.

The quality is great in terms of production, technical details, inspiration and models. Photography is the best I've seen although they could add higher resolution sets since many already own monitors with higher resoltion than their max 2000 pixel wide images. Videos are right on the top although there is a minor nitpick too: They are quite huge in file size. If you ask me, 21Sextury has slight edge in crisp image and colors but their H.264 files are significantly smaller. House of Taboo has a nice variety of (female) models with different style and looks with handfull I've not seen before in other networks (Linet, Tigerr Benson for example). Scenes have great variety and the same props are not over used. The settings differ between differnt houses, outdoors and so on, not too many shady basements unlike on many other bondage sites.

For me this is a site that nearly alone justifies the subscription to DDF Network. Only thing I could wish for was more updates, especially of bondage sex variety but that's always the case with me I guess. My cons are mostly minor nitpickings, I consider this site one of the best ones I've seen so far. I need to rise my old score few points as the quality has gotten better in these one and half years and the site still delivers.

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House Of Taboo Review

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:28:56 PST

House Of Taboo (2)

01-07-11 07:28pm

REVIEW = 78 by pat362 (235)

Pros:
-Over 500 videos and pic sets to choose from.
-Most videos can be downloaded in WMV, MP4 and Quicktime. They offer standard resolution at 720x405 and HD at 1280x720
-You can stream videos in Flash.
-Pics sets can be viewed online or downloaded as a complete set.
-There is a wide selection of models to choose from.
-They have some nice fetishes to choose from like watersports, spanking, latex, bondage to name a few.
-A good selection of models. Most of them being Eastern Europeans porn performers

Cons:
-They don't update very often and it's difficult to tell what is and isn't new content since they don't date any of it.(except on the preview page)
-Some of their scenes are split in 2 or more sections and these aren't updated at the same time but over a certain number of weeks.
-Some of the updates are older scenes that have been given a facelift and now come in better video resolution.
-They update with some leased content.
-Some of the content appears to be from some of their other sites.

Bottom Line:
-This is another site under the ddf network and one that lives more on it's connection to that network rather than it's own merit. It would not have gotten as high a score if it weren't for the automatic access to the network.

-This one suffers from some of the same issues that plague Handsonhardcore. They don't update regularly. Their updates aren't necessarily new scenes as much as re-issued older ones. They now have leased content and also use content from some of their other sites. Add the fact that they don't date their material and this makes it hard to know what is and isn't new material.

-I guess this site still has some good stuff to offer but mostly for new porn surfer. Older memebers will probably feel more cheated than satisfied.

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House Of Taboo Review

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:42:49 PDT

House Of Taboo (2)

08-14-10 12:42am

REVIEW = 93 by RustyJ (116)

Pros:
-Great variety of the popular BDSM fetish niches. There's bondage, spanking, latex, leather and even some more rare stuff like pissing and medical play. If you are into this stuff, you'll like this site.
-Nicely arranged site with clear subcategories (spanking, bondage, latex, pissing and a medical fetish section).
-Some seriously hot stuff if you are into these niches. It's as hardcore as it gets and the models are mostly great looking European big name stars.
-None of the frustrating catch and release bondage or removing the fetish wear as the first thing. The theme stays strong over the whole scenes. Also as the talent is non English speaking, there is none of that "Yes Master! Yes Master!" nonsense that I don't really like to hear.
-All DDF Prod pros apply. Same great quality all over the site. Photography is outstanding always and video quality is consistent in all but the older clips.

Cons:
-Updates are quite a random grab so you might get something great or wait a whole month to never see anything you like. I for example would like to see more sex in bondage and good looking fetish wear and less solo pissing or g/g spanking.
-Split scenes that are added as separate updates. That means you see undressing and spanking from one scene as update on one week and the hardcore action as an update next week.
-Apparently some old material has gone missing. There are dead links and I can use Google's image search to find scenes that are not on the site anymore.
-Nitpicking for sure but once you are through what they have, you wish they had a lot more ;)

Bottom Line:
Take my score of 93 for this site as a sub score within my review of DDF Prod in general (I gave it 90). I don't see anyone subscribing to these single sites anymore as a whole network can be had for little more.

All in all this is a serious strong point within DDF in my book. Along with HandsOnHardcore this one basically makes the whole network for me. The material is pretty unique and I don't think even kink.com comes close in HoT's special niche. This material kind of reminds me of old stuff you could find in Hustler's Taboo magazines way back in early 2000's.

I'm not quite sure where this site is going in the long run. The older material seems of higher quality to me in terms of uniqueness and ideas. I also get slightly irritated with that smug looking Euro male talent they have been using lately. You can only view so many clips with these choky ice's or george uhl's in it if you get my point ;)

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House Of Taboo Review

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:11:50 PST

House Of Taboo (2)

01-28-08 09:11am

REVIEW = 83 by apoctom (145)

Pros:
- Hundreds of fetish videos, organized by theme
- No DRM
- Videos available as single-file downloads
- Newer scenes have hi-def options: wmv & divx 720p
- All scenes have picture sets associated.
- Picture sets have zip file option.

Cons:
- Slow download speeds (less than 500 KB/sec)
- Updates are not as frequent as on other DDF sites. I would put it roughly 1 or 2 updates per week.

Bottom Line:
I joined this site as part of the year-end 2-for-1 deal on DDF sites. I picked it for 2 reasons: I wanted something a little different and I enjoy a good fetish site every once in a while. I was not disappointed by the content, but the execution was a little below par.

The majority of the models are European, but I was surprised to see so many American women on the site, like Amy Ried, Inari Vachs, and Violet Blue. There are some very entertaining scenes, as well as some that I didn't know I would find erotic, like age-play. I ran into a problem a couple of times where the model listed for a scene wouldn't show up in the Model (Our Girls) Index. That made it a bit harder to find scenes featuring some very hot Euro models. Not a huge complaint, but an annoyance.

I also didn't enjoy the really slow download speeds. It improved over the course of my membership as DDF added more servers to handle demand, but downloading hi-def content at 500KB/sec is pretty painful.

I wish that the site would update more often. I know that it is a niche site, but compared to its sister sites, House of Taboo waits a long time between updates. There are also a few scenes where the message "Video coming soon..." has been up for weeks.

Overall, I liked the content. Some of the fetishes were not my taste, like watersports. But I did enjoy the bondage and spanking sections. I doubt I would join as a full-price member, but I am glad that I used my free visit on this site.

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House Of Taboo Review

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:30:36 PST

House Of Taboo (2)

12-30-07 01:30pm

REVIEW = 82 by mr smut (40)

Pros:
+ great content and lots of tasty models
+ video quality has improved a lot since I was there for the last time (no DRM)
+ Image quality is now better and the newest sets are 2000pixels for the long side (which is an increase of about 400pixels)
+ ZIP files are now 1 per set conveniently downloadable from the first thumbnail page for each update

Cons:
- image quality varies between acceptable and fantastic
- sometimes it's not exactly clear to me why a set is shown at HOT (e.g. Sasha shaving her legs)
- some broken or missing links
- in the members area there is no information given about the update schedule

Bottom Line:
Content is divided into different sections like spanking, bondage, roleplay, latex fetish and watersports.

The navigational features are somewhat annoying because it's hard to keep track where you came from or to find specific content e.g. when searching for a special model. I found a broken link for one set with Laura M. and Nelli but was at least able to find that one on the spanking page. One set was split up into 3 subset which are scattered around in 2 different categories.
The worst thing is to not know when the site gets updated. This is a real nuisance as 1by-day for instance gets updated twice per day.

For some models information is missing and it would be nice to get a hint where you can find them on other DDF sites. Lucky enough I found at least chubby Laura M. and her massive 40F breast on DDF Busty.

The new videos offer good quality � though still not as excellent as the videos from ALS Scan for instance - but only for the picture itself as the audio tracks still seem to be a problem for those who record or edited the movies.

HOT offers a lot of different content but IMHO it still needs more to offer. It seems as if updates do now come more than once per week. I'll keep an eye on that and let you know as soon as I know more. The content itself is very good and I enjoy to see for instance Cloe getting fisted, Dorthy Black or Daria training their female slaves and not to forget to see pregnant Violet Blue being submissive.

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House Of Taboo Review

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:20:25 PST

House Of Taboo (2)

11-21-07 07:20pm

REVIEW = 86 by pat362 (235)

Pros:
*Navigation is quite easy. *Download options for both pictures and videos are amazing. *the selection of women is good and varied. *There is a good choice of taboos offered. *They offer exclusive material. *the download speed is excellent. *The price is reasonable. Updates are pretty regular.

Cons:
Although navigation is made easy, you are required to hit the back button once you've made a selection or you have to retrace your path to the scene you were looking at. The models are all well known eastern european with just a few americans added. I wouldn't mind seeing a trial membership. Except for the download options it's impossible to identify the new scenes

Bottom Line:
I've sampled many of the sites that are part of the DDF family and like them this is a really good site. I'd love it if one day they offered the option of buying at an increase price a membership to a couple or all of their sites. They cover most fetishes with emphasis on spanking and watersports.

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