Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Unique and interesting site
- Part of a larger network
- Supports download managers
- Good video quality
- High production values
- Lots of well-known models
- Updates regularly
- TBP / PU discount
Cons:
- Save your confirmation email so you know what website to use to cancel
- Not much interaction between performers and viewers on the live shoots
Bottom Line:
This site is part of the My XXX Pass network but it is relatively unique and I figured worthy of a review.
First, I should point out that even though the main claim of the site is that the posts are recorded live I didn’t actually watch any of them as they were being streamed. All of the shoots are available as part of the archive and are easily downloadable so that was what I opted for. Given that the shoots are recorded as they were happening I was a bit disappointed to see that there really isn’t much interaction between the performers and the viewing members. In the scenes where there was communication via chat that added to the heat of the scene. Regardless of this oversight, the shoots are still great to watch but for a live site they lack that extra element of interaction that usually comes with live shoots.
The site is further broken down into ten categories, most of which have self-explanatory titles. These are (with the number of scenes currently on the site in brackets):
• Boot Camp (7)
• Cocksucking Challenge (48)
• Fuck a Fan (2)
• Immoral Live (22)
• Immoral Orgies (60)
• New Girl in Town (31)
• Squirtamania (99)
• Titterific (54)
• Toss My Salad (19)
• Wheel of Debauchery (76)
This is, admittedly, very subjective, but I found the Wheel of Debauchery scenes to be the most fun to watch. The gimmick is a large wheel with various sex acts written around the edge so the model spins it and does what the wheel lands on. (The funny part is that there is, quite obviously, someone laying down outside the camera’s view stopping the wheel on specific acts. That makes sense, since a model who doesn’t do anal isn’t going to start just because the wheel stops on ‘anal.’) I also like the premise of Fuck a Fan and hope they shoot more of those.
Most of the scenes feature some of the biggest names in porn so you know there will be a high level of professionalism. The professionalism applies to the production values too, with the camerawork and lighting being well done too.
The site updates regularly with a new live scene being shot every several days. I don’t know how long it takes to upload a scene to the archive but it doesn’t appear to be too long.
The site has a good sort feature so you can sort for just the scenes on Boot Camp, for example, if that’s your preference. You can also sort by star and there is a search function too but I found that the latter didn’t work well as any scene found that way linked back to the main page rather than the scene you wanted.
Like other sites affiliated with Gamma, there are a lot of options for how you view or download the scenes. WMV downloads are offered in resolutions of 160, 240 and 360. Mp4s are offered in 160, 240, 360, 480, 540, 720 and 1080. Streaming is available as 160, 240, 360, 480 and 540 and mobile users can download in 160, 240, 360, 48, 540 and 720. I downloaded the 720p and those came in at 1280x720 at 4000kb/s and 30fps. (Some of these options aren’t available for older videos.) I’d normally go for the highest resolution available but those aren’t for the faint of heart. Most of the scenes are well over an hour long, and some can last more than three hours, so a scene of that length at 1080p is close to 10GB. I figured that 720p was a good compromise. To their credit, the site has no obvious download limit so if you really wanted the best there is nothing stopping you from getting the best. The 720p look great on both a 24” monitor and a 32” TV.
Also like other sites affiliated with Gamma Entertainment, you need to be careful with your membership information to ensure where you need to go to cancel. It appears that there are many sites that they use for billing (all owned by Gamma, I assume) and you need to save your confirmation email to get the site you’re billed through. Losing that information would probably cause some frustration. Even with that information, cancelling is a bit more involved than with CCBill, Epoch or the other big billers. Here you have to enter credit card information and a captcha which brings you to a further screen where you have to enter your membership name and email address and another captcha. It works, but until I learned to save all my membership information I got frustrated trying to cancel.
Another advantage to the site is that joining through TBP / PU gets you a significant discount. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this discount won’t carry through past the first month so be careful to cancel if you don’t want to see the price double. (I should add that in many cases with Gamma sites you’re offered the first-month price when you start the cancellation procedure.)
The bottom line is that this is a fun site to watch. It’s got some of the hottest models in the business. The production values are high, the site supports download managers and doesn’t have any download limits. On top of all of this you get it all for a great discount.
I'm not familiar with her at all but I did check out two of her scenes just now. She is really hot and sort of reminds me of Veronica Jett, a long-time favorite of mine. I agree that her eyes are captivating. Unfortunately the best available resolution is pretty low, but I'll keep the scenes anyway. Thanks for the tip!
While I respect the opinions that martinlongbow and RustyJ wrote recently I can't agree with them. At the risk of sounding like a shill I find Evil Angel to be among the best sites on the internet. They do everything right: the porn is amazing with exceptional production values, the downloads are fast, they offer many different ways to stream or download their material, they update regularly and they offer a TBP/PU discount that turns a great value into an exceptional value.
I admit that the criticisms that the other members raised have some validity, but I don't think those flaws outweigh what the site does right. To address the specific issues raised:
- not enough Mike Adriano, too much Kevin Moore: I think Mike Adriano is among the best directors working today and I download EVERYTHING I can get of his so I agree that it would be nice to get more but there is a lot available still. Kevin Moore does a couple of my favorite series so I'd like more of his work too.
- Too much TS: I'm not a big fan of TS stuff either and wish Joey Silvera would bring back some of his older series (Fashion Sluts and Butt Row please!!) There are currently 94 TS DVD posted out of almost 1500 DVDs. While I don't download the TS stuff I realize that there are those who like it and it doesn't bother me that it is there.
- subsequent months more expensive than the first. Yes, this is true. The discount only applies to the first month but every time I go to leave I get offered the lower price.
- 'locked' updates. This is true too and it can be annoying but I agree with jberry169 in his reply that these are sort of a preview bonus we get to see before the DVD hits the streets. There was an Asphyxia Noir / Skin Diamond scene uploaded and locked yesterday that I really want to download so I'll watch to see how long that takes. I'm sure it'll be unlocked in the next month and probably only a week.
Anyway, I'm not trying to undermine valid opinions, but I think that objectively this site is still amazing and I'll continue to come back to it regularly. I'd score it in the mid 90s (and seeing my review is quite old maybe I'll post another review to justify that opinion).
I've never been blocked but I was once threatened with legal action over a review I wrote so I suspect that webmaster wouldn't want me back. Apparently when the site is streaming only and the Terms of Reference don't state that some people can get mad when this important fact gets mentioned in a review.
Like you, I have a lot of favorite models who were in the business years ago before video quality was as good as it is now so I'm used to suffering through poor quality too. But if the alternative is deleting the lower-res stuff with the models I like, I'll live with what I have, which is probably what you do too.
Red is like an aphrodisiac for me. Seeing a fine young lass in red jeans or pants is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. So red lingerie for me please!
Thanks to TBP and PU I'm usually able to sign up for a site knowing exactly what to expect so there are few surprises. I've joined some new sites before they were reviewed and been burned a couple of times. The only true cases of buyer's remorse come when I use a biller that I don't know and get burned.
I agree 100%. A lot of times I'm more interested in the sensual journey to the action than the action itself. It is so rare to find a good scene set-up these days.
My M.O. is usually to take a month-long membership and download what I want. If I like the site I put it in regular rotation going back regularly. How regularly depends on the number of updates and the price.
Thanks for that clarification. I hope it gets fixed as this is a great site that offers some great porn.
BTW pat, later today (probably 7-8PM your time) I'll be sending you an email on a separate issue. I figured I'd mention it in case you don't check your email too often.
I had a membership to Elegant Angel less than a month ago and had no problems at all. I had no problems with billing, signing in, downloading or cancelling. I hope you get this resolved because this really is an excellent site.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Large site broken down into smaller sites
- Lots of excellent quality HD
- Affiliated with Gamma Entertainment
- Supports download managers
- Timeouts occur only after about two hours
- Many well-known stars
- High production values
- Videos offered in multiple formats and wide array of resolutions
- Streaming is available
- Streaming doesn’t begin as soon as you load the scene page
Cons:
- No gradual transition from SD to HD
- Need to take note of billing for cancellation purposes
- A few navigation issues
Bottom Line:
My XXX Pass might try to act like a network, but it really isn’t. That’s not a bad thing though. It claims (and has) several ‘sites’ but all of that material is made available on this main site, so if all you visit is My XXX Pass then you’ll have had access to everything. There is no disadvantage to doing things this way (though some may say it is an attempt to make the site seem bigger than it is) and the advantage is it offers a quick way to sort by general theme. I’m not into MILF blowjobs, for example, so I can just avoid visiting the ‘site’ that caters to that niche.
The ‘network’ contains almost 2500 scenes and these can be sorted by the various sites. The sites are: 1000 Facials, Immoral Live, Mommy Blows Best, Only Teen Blowjobs and Throated. Most of what I write here applies to all the sites, though I do plan on writing a separate review of Immoral Live due to some unique offerings there. As you can tell from the list, the sites are mostly oral-themed. For those wondering (because I did) the scenes on Throated aren’t brutal like many other sites with similar names, and 1000 Facials isn’t a bukkake site (like I hoped it might be). There are some multi-shot scenes but they’re mostly one girl, one guy. (And also in case you’re wondering, there is very little anal on the network. There are 150 scenes listed as having anal but fewer than 10 are available in HD.)
The ‘network’ updates regularly with at least one and as many as three scenes being added per day. These are spread across all the sites so don’t take this to mean that you’ll get a new scene added to any of the individual sites each day.
In the most recent uploads there are a lot of options available. WMV downloads are offered in resolutions of 160, 240 and 360. Mp4s are offered in 160, 240, 360, 480, 540, 720 and 1080. Streaming is available as 160, 240, 360, 480 and 540 and mobile users can download in 160, 240, 360, 48, 540 and 720. I downloaded the 1080p and those came in at 1920x1080, 6300 kb/s and 29fps. Average files sizes vary, but since most of the content is only oral they’re short and come in around 1GB. The scenes look great: they’re crisp and sharp and demonstrate some high production values. In less recent uploads, some of the options are narrowed, but the full 1080p is still there.
When it comes to file resolutions, there is one point worth noting. The oldest scenes on the site date to 2005 so we can’t expect full HD in those, but the resolutions are quite low with only 160 and 360p being offered in both WMV and mp4. The other issue worth noting is that there wasn’t a gradual increase in resolutions where they added 540p and then a year later added 720p. It just appears that on a certain date (in summer 2009) they flipped a switch and started uploading HD video. There is a blend of HD and SD for a while, but it is disappointing to click on a scene uploaded in late 2009 to find that it is only offered in low res. I don’t want to leave a prospective member with the wrong impression though – this still means you get access to almost 1400 videos with full 1080p available. That’s a great value no matter how you look at it.
I experienced a few minor navigations issues. Each page has 15 large thumbnails and the intention is that you can hover your mouse over those and see a brief slideshow of other thumbnails from the scene. It does work, but first a large box with the scene name will appear for a few seconds obscuring the thumbnails. The second issue that may just be an issue with Windows 8 is that hovering over a thumbnail causes it to go blank for a few seconds. I found that I had to wait for the thumb to come back and then wait for the box to disappear before I could see the thumbnails.
The site gets the technical bits right: it is well laid out, easy to use, supports download managers (with reasonable timeouts of at least two hours) and has good download speeds. The scenes themselves are well done with good lighting and editing. The staff and male talent don’t fall into the trap of thinking that the scenes are about anything other than the female models.
One caveat with any site managed through Gamma Entertainment, as this is: they’re a reputable company but pay attention to where you’re being billed from. They don’t use common billers and they seem to have a bunch of proprietary billing companies. Take note of the billing site name as that will be necessary when you want to cancel.
The bottom line is that this ‘network’ has some great porn and they make it easily accessible. The production values are high and the HD videos look great. The content is mostly oral so if that’s something you like you can’t go wrong with a membership here.
That's a good point. I use Internet Download Manager and it has that feature so that is an option. You're right that it sucks to have to go this route, but if it works, it works.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- 1800 Hustler DVDs
- Supports download managers
- Many scenes are 1280x720 (bitrate varies)
- Files offered as streaming or video
- Files offered with some choice of type and resolution
Cons:
- Only the most recently uploaded scenes have good video quality (approximately 600 of the DVDs)
- Not really a ‘network’
- Trial membership is now limited to streaming 5 scenes
- Search function doesn’t work well
- Sort function doesn’t work well
- Scenes start streaming immediately – watch your speakers!
- Lots of ads
- Many DVDs have scenes missing
Bottom Line:
I’ll admit that this site probably hasn’t changed much since the last time I reviewed it, so the big difference in scoring and comments comes from how I’ve changed recently when it comes to collecting porn. I’ve recently deleted a lot of my collection because the quality was so poor and this site didn’t set a high bar for video quality. I think my approach to this site can be summed up by saying if you don’t care too much about quality and like lots of porn, get a membership here. If you prefer quality over quantity, the site is still worth a membership, but go into it with your eyes open as this is not a site that offers cutting-edge quality.
If you’re like me and prefer quality over quantity, allow me to save you some time and frustration if you take a membership here. Any DVD or scene labeled as HD is fairly good quality, though it is not among the best on the ‘net. The resolution is 1280x720 and the bitrate is 3000kb/s. Scenes uploaded after 2010 (which is about one quarter of what’s available here) that are labeled as ‘Super’ quality also come in at 1280x720 and a 3000kb/s bitrate. These also look pretty good. (I don’t know why some are labeled HD even though the specs are the same as files not so labeled.) That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the site must have changed codecs or made some amendments at some point in 2010 or 11 because even though the specs show 1280x720 and 3000 some of the scenes with those specs don’t look good. That’s bad because there is no obvious way to tell them apart other than watching each scene and deciding if the quality is good enough.
The ugly news is that the majority of the videos uploaded are still 1280x720 (older videos are lower) but come in at lower bitrates of 1700 and lower. On a 24” monitor I found these scenes to be unwatchable. Dark colors showed lots of pixilation and even edges like arms looked blocky. Movement made them look worse, and let’s face it, sex (and therefore porn) without movement would be kind of pointless. I tried downloading both the mp4 and wmv versions but both were equally bad.
The site does support download managers with long timeouts. There is no obvious download limit.
The site does continue to update at what looks to be a scene per day. I can’t be certain because sorting the scenes or DVDs by latest added doesn’t work well. I did that and found newer scenes mixed in with scenes uploaded a week ago. At least the updates are dated so you can figure out what’s new. It also appears that as long as the scene was taped recently the quality will be good. If the upload is a ‘classic,’ the quality won’t be there.
The site bills itself as a network, but it really isn’t in the true sense. The ‘sites’ are all listed on the main page but if you go to the main Hustler site you’ll get access to everything. One thing you’ll see lots of regardless of the site you’re on are ads. They aren’t obtrusive, and they aren’t pop-ups so I can live with them.
If you’re thinking that you can join with the trial membership and get in, get what you want and get out, think again and read my comment on that.
The search function works marginally well, but I found that it often returned results that weren’t even remotely related to my search.
My final major beef with the site is that scenes are missing on many DVDs. In one example, Taylor Rain is on the box cover but her scene isn’t offered. This is frustrating if you’re hoping to find a specific scene.
One quirk I found was that finding the member’s entrance was a real chore. The main page has links to join, but not for member’s to enter (that I could find anyway). The workaround was to go in through the back door using one of the ‘sites’ listed as being part of the network. This seems like an odd oversight.
The bottom line is that this site can be a decent value for specific purposes. The site gives you access to Hustler’s best known series, Barely Legal, and if you like parodies Hustler shoots lots of them. The biggest problem is that while there are 1800 DVDs on the site, only about 600 of them have video quality that most collectors would find acceptable in 2013. That’s still a lot of porn though, so the value is still pretty good. If you do join, at least you can say you were warned.
I tend to stick to the name that the model used when I first noticed her. I keep a Word document with a list of everything I have and I won't normally go back and change it if a model changes her name, though that would be easy enough to do. European models must have patented the regular name change, but thankfully they're less common in U.S. models. I still remember the epiphany I had when I discovered that Heather Gables and Paris Gables are the same person. I was a fan of both of them up until I discovered that.
Probably the most unusual name change in recent years had to be the legal ruling that forced Violet Blue to drop that name. Now her scenes list her as Noname Jane. Fuck you Judge - I'll stick with Violet Blue.
I usually ignore reviews where the reviewer scores the site as being perfect, but in almost all cases where that's done the reviewer gives no reasons to support that opinion. in your case, however, you give thorough and credible reasons for the perfect score. Excellent review!
I joined this site today using the trial membership. The TBP page lists the trial as being full access and that was confirmed in March 2013. There has been a change at the site and the trial membership now only allows access to five videos of your choice. Also, these are only available through streaming.
I posted a not on the TBP page too so they may be able to verify this.
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