Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Billing by CCBill, no regional pricing or cross sales.
100% exclusive and unique Asian glamour content.
New photo shoots and videos added several times a week.
Good quality photos and videos (although not quite hd specs)
Zip downloads for the photos.
Decent download speeds.
The archives of the old Asian 4 You site that closed down over 10 years ago are included.
Cons:
The biggest con without a doubt is the 5 GB per 24 hours download limit.
Expensive by today's standards at $29.95 a month.
Photo shoots all have that glossy airbrushed look to them so may not be to everyone's taste.
Quite a lot of models with fake tits and/or tattoos.
The content is about 99% solo glamour here, although that's not a con for me personally it should be noted here for anyone who is looking for harder content.
Latest video updates only have 1 download option.
No streaming of videos available.
None of the content date stamped apart from the most recent updates.
Lack of navigational features, no way to search or sort the models or content, no categories or tags, no user interaction such as add to favorites, comments or model ratings.
Need to stay 3 months to get access to the VIP area.
Bottom Line:
I was always a fan of the old Asian 4 You site back in the day so I was always going to join this site at some point, it's just taken me a long time to get around to it. I believe The Black Alley has been online something like 10 years although it's difficult to be exact since none of the content is date stamped apart from the most recent updates but the site stats would seem to suggest a site that has been regularly updating for that length of time. Again it's hard to be precise with the site stats due to the way the site is laid out but from what I've downloaded I can gauge that there are approximately 300 models in at least 3529 photo sets (385,000+ total pics) and 1129 videos. If you add in the A4Y archives that gives you another 2000+ photo sets (120,000+ pics) and another 242 videos.
When I first signed up back in March I thought the site had stopped updating as the latest updates were showing dates in January but it soon became apparent that new content was being added, just that the updates calender is running 2 months behind schedule, the latest updates from this last week are now showing March dates. In the last week I've seen 6 new photo sets and 3 new videos added and this seems to be what you can expect most weeks.
The photo shoots here are high end glossy professional glamour shoots, gorgeous Asian models shot in a variety of stunning indoor and outdoor locations with professionally styled hair and make up, sexy outfits, lots of sexy underwear, stockings and high heels. The majority of sets go from clothed to explicit nudity with spreading, masturbation and sometimes toy play. The models all have that flawless airbrushed look to the extent that the skin tone can sometimes look unnatural particularly in close up shots so that style may not be to everyone's taste if you don't like to see all the blemishes smoothed out.
Around 90% of the photo collection has the option of 2 sizes, a larger one at 1333 x 2000 and a smaller size at 920 x 1379 (although they've recently stopped offering the low resolution option with the new updates) with both sizes available in a zip or to view online. I'm afraid there's no online photo viewer or slide slow feature to view the photos online, I'm afraid it's click photo, hit back button, select next photo and so on. A small number of what must be the oldest sets don't offer the larger size photos.
The videos fall into 3 basic categories; you have Behind The Scenes, Private Videos and Masturbation videos. BTS is basically a video of the photo shoot, usually 5 to 10 minutes duration with background music. Private videos you might see the model doing a slow sensual striptease, sometimes doing a sexy dance, sometimes taking a bath or shower, they would often show the model touching herself but generally stop short of masturbation. Again these videos are 5 to 10 minutes duration with background music. The masturbation videos are definitely the best ones, a bit longer at around 15 minutes and no background music so you can hear the sounds of the model as she pleasures herself. The latest videos are offered as an mp4 file at 1080 x 600 @ 3000k, not quite hd specs but they certainly looked good on my monitor. A lot of the older videos though are only 720 x 400 @ 2000k, they don't look as good but certainly not unwatchable. The videos are listed with just a small preview thumbnail picture and a link to either download the video or view video info. Clicking video info will show you the duration, file size, resolution and display 30 small thumbnail sized screencap preview pictures.
The most frustrating thing about this site for me was the 5 GB per 24 hours download limit. I can confirm it's enforced because I managed to get locked out on 3 occasions for a period of 24 hours. If you are downloading close to the 5 gigs every day then you basically have to schedule your downloading for the same time every day because it works on a 24 hour time scale which is a real pain. In my mind the limit is nothing but a cash grab designed to force you to stick around longer to get what you want. If you're like me when it comes to this kind of softcore glamour content and like to download every photo set of every model in the largest resolution then it's not possible to do it in one month as the photo collection is close to 200 GB in total making the site expensive with a mimimum spend of $60 required for what I wanted to download. If I also wanted a large number of videos it could cost considerably more although they do tempt you with access to the VIP zone with a load more photo sets and videos if you stick around for a third month.
The only positive thing I can say about the download limit is that they are upfront about it and mention it on the join page. File sizes on average for photo zips are between 40 – 80 MB and video sizes generally 200 – 250 MB which means on average 80 to 90 photo zips or 20 videos with your daily download allowance.
Was a member approx. 6 months prior to this review.
Pros:
As both a former member of TheBlackAlley and Asian4You (before it combined TheBlackAlley), it is very hard to find any other Asian-centric sites that offer the level of quality as TheBlackAlley.
Pros:
- Positively, the bestselection of Asian nude models in terms of hotness and variety
- Lots of unique and relatively unknown Thai/Southeast Asian models
- Decent amount of video work
- Asian4You archive of models is HUGE and offers even more variety (i.e. girl-girl, hardcore)
Cons:
Cons:
- Inconsistent updates in terms of when and what content
- No hardcore sex content featuring TheBlackAlley models (Asian4You archive has about 10-20 sets and a few BJ videos)
Bottom Line:
Despite the lack of hardcore sex content, users will be hard-pressed to find a better Asian-centric site that features this many good-looking Asian models posing completely nude. Add the huge Asian4You archive that does feature some hardcore content and this is probably one of the best Asian nude websites around.
Other recommended comparison sites: MoonAngel, ThaiChix
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
Top quality models and pictures.
Videos just the right size and of good quality.
Lots of flaws, but if you like Asian Girls this is the place.
Cons:
Updates are late for both pictures and videos.
Models wear high heels in pictures but rarely in videos. No new movies since December 2008. No customer service. I wrote three times with no response.
Bottom Line:
I probably would have resubscribed if they had just answered one of my E-Mails.
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