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Twistys
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hodayathink's Review
Twisty's is a site that's been on the outer edge of my radar for a while. Thanks to your thorough review I think it may have been bumped up a bit since you answered some questions that I've had. The one bit of bad news is the difficulty you had cancelling your membership. That might be a deal-breaker for me.
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11-04-12 04:19am
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Twistys
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lk2fireone's Comment
Has anyone got an update on this? I'd like to take advantage of the offer too but not if it is this limited. And I strongly suspect that TBP/PU had no knowledge of this. I trust the people that run these sites.
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09-03-12 05:11pm
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Twistys
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Gazette Risque's Comment
Hmmm... Sarah might be enough to get me to join... Thanks for the tip!
(And since I see they also have my new favourite, Tiffany Thompson, I'd say a join is a sure thing.)
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07-03-12 01:09pm
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Ultimate Surrender
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exotics4me's Review
Your review was interesting to read. Ultimate Surrender is one of the few Kink sites that I've never really gotten into. It's a niche that doesn't really do anything for me and since it is all-girl that's a downside for me too. But for those who like this niche I have to recognize that if anyone is going to do it right it would be Kink.
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12-28-17 05:57am
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Ultimate Surrender
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exotics4me's Reply
I had no idea that Kink used to have download limits. I'm glad I stumbled on them after those were lifted because I probably would never have gone back. I agree that they could improve their navigation. One thing they're doing on The Training of O lately is to name day 1 something that isn't related to days 2 through 4 so you have to work to put the sets together.
10GB a month... I'm glad that's gone!
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10-08-12 03:00pm
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Ultimate Surrender
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exotics4me's Review
Interesting review. I'm a huge Kink fan too and have a couple of memberships on the go now as well. This is one of the Kink sites that intrigued me but that I've never taken the plunge and joined because I'm not certain if I'd like it. What I did a while back was when I had a Videobox membership I waited until the last days of my monthly membership and joined the Kink Channel for the pro-rated price and downloaded all the Ultimate Surrender stuff there. I'm glad I did it that way, because while this site brings all the usual high-quality aspects that Kink is known for, the niche just isn't for me.
I agree with your negative comments about Kink, but I assess them differently, I guess. The site navigation is basic on all their sites, but given that each site is such a narrow niche I don't find that an issue.
One thing I definitely agree with you on is the need for a zip file for ALL the photos in a set. I don't download photos much, but Kink's approach needs to be rethought.
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09-10-12 06:18pm
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Ultra Films
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lk2fireone's Comment
Thanks for posting this. I've never heard of the site but it looks great, even though as you say it's a lot like Wow Girls. I've recently cancelled a membership with the same biller listed for this site (Vendo) and I had no issues so I think I'll take the plunge on this.
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01-13-19 05:27pm
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Underwater Show
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littlejoe's Review
I don't know whether to say this site is odd or interesting... But like you, I suspect that I'd find it repetitive after watching several scenes.
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01-10-18 02:27pm
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Val Midwest
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exotics4me's Reply
I'm more of a video collector and these sites tended to favour photos. I've kept some of the videos and they were probably substandard resolution even five years ago. One of these days I'll take the plunge and join a couple of solo sites again.
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04-29-13 05:37pm
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Val Midwest
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exotics4me's Reply
I've always wondered about that too, and can only conclude that it has to be the model's choice. But it seems to me that once a model gets into this business she might as well go all the way.
My biggest beef with these solo 'teen' models is that they are almost always poorly done. I'll admit it has been a while since I joined one, but the picture and video quality tends to be poor.
But like you I'm still drawn to these sites. This one (and the network) are on my list of sites to join at some time.
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04-25-13 05:32am
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Val Midwest
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exotics4me's Comment
Good catch, exotics. She is definitely hot. This site's page at TBP says that it bills through CCBill, but clicking through to Melissa Pass (which gives access to Val's site too) says there is no independent merchant. I might consider joining, but I'd definitely prefer to see a reputable biller used. (Plus, my preference would be for the lovely Val to have A-cups, but a guy can't have everything...)
[Edit - I was browsing around on Val's site and it appears that if you join there (through CCBill) you still get access to all the sites on Melissa Pass - and it looks like the price is lower for a three month membership through Val's site.]
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03-04-13 05:52pm
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VCA XXX
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xexbot's Reply
I can't figure out why this market hasn't been tapped. The production costs are long gone so all it would take is digitizing them. It would be great if a site like Videobox would create a 'classics' channel to give these older titles what they deserve.
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05-06-12 11:58am
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VCA XXX
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Part of the Hustler Mega Pass network
- Access to many ‘classics’
- Looks like it hadn’t updated in two years, but it may be updating now
- Several formats and downloading options
- Supports download managers
- No obvious time-out issues
- Excellent download speeds
- Site bills at $19.95
- Bills through Epoch |
| Cons: |
- Many scenes are unlabeled for performers
- Many scenes have the wrong thumbnails
- VCA must have a huge ‘classics’ catalogue, so why so few here?
- The curse of the modern porn site: streaming that launches automatically
- Some dead links
- Many titles are incomplete
- Search / sort functions don’t work well
- No pictures
- Many titles are ‘bargain bin’ compilations |
| Bottom Line: |
I’m a big fan of ‘classic’ videos. I realize that’s a term open to some interpretation but my preference for classic starts in the mid-1980s and goes through the mid to late 1990s. I’m always open to taking a membership on a site that offers me some titles to expand my collection. So with this in mind I signed up for the Hustler Mega Pass network through VCA XXX. I should note that while the website is definitely called VCA XXX, on the site itself the banner says VCA Classics. The DVDs on the site seem to fall within my preferences. There is little here if your preferences are earlier than the mid-1980s.
The site is relatively small, offering only 111 DVDs as of this writing. It appears that the site stopped updating in 2010 but may have started again recently since there was one update per month in the first three months of this year. There is no update for April.
The site is obviously a video site, so no pictures are offered that I could find.
The primary page is divided into two main segments: one for individual scenes (listed by performer) and one for DVDs. Clicking on the performer in the scene section obviously opens that scene for viewing or downloading. Clicking on a DVD cover open that DVD’s page where you get one thumbnail of the star per scene. Clicking on that thumbnail opens the scene page for viewing or downloading.
Streaming options are for MP4, FLV and WMV. You can also choose the quality of the stream as Basic, Medium, High or Super. Super is not often available.
When you roll over the download button the options for that scene appear in a dropdown menu. Downloads are most commonly available as WMVs but sometimes there are MP4s on offer too. This site has very little in high-resolution on offer. My suspicion is that because we’re dealing with ‘classics’ the quality of the originals is a limiting factor. For that reason, correct or not, I’m won’t hold the lack of HD availability against the site.
The more-recently added videos (I download WMVs) are at 720x540 at 1200kbps and 30fps. WMV Codec is 9. Videos uploaded a while ago (as far back as 2003) are lower resolution.
The site (and all the other in the network) commits a sin that seems to be more common now: opening the scene page starts the streaming automatically. This presents the obvious, though easily fixed problem of being surprised when your speakers suddenly blare out the sounds of sex. That’s solved by turning your speakers off. But in my opinion the problem is bigger than that: the fact that the scene starts downloading as a stream hogs bandwidth and slows the downloading process.
I used Free Download Manager successfully and had no issues with timeouts. Download speeds were excellent.
The site is not without flaws. It is clearly an add-on to the network and not intended as a flagship site. The updates are sporadic. My biggest beef with the site is the size of it. VCA has a huge catalogue of titles so why not offer more and update more often? What’s worse is that many of the titles added when the site was new are bargain bin European compilations that Hustler put out.
Other beefs are in how the DVDs are presented. Each DVD opens into a separate page that provides one thumbnail per scene and lists the star. Or that’s the plan anyway. At least 25% of the scenes don’t list a star. This doesn’t make sense since these are the guys who uploaded it. Why not make the site complete and make sure names are associated with every scene? In some cases, the thumbnails don’t even match the scene. I saw instances where, in a movie from the mid-1990s the thumbnails were clearly from a movie a decade newer. In several cases, the five or six thumbnails were even taken from the same newer scene. It just looks sloppy.
There were some dead links for the highest resolution available which meant having to download a lower resolution. This isn’t a huge issue as I may have encountered a dozen of these dead links on the site.
Many of the sort functions don’t work well. If you select to sort by “Pornstars,” for example, you’re given a list of pornstars on the entire network, not just on this site. What’s worse though, is that all you get is a brief bio – there are no links to scenes or photos on the site or network.
TBP notes that there is a full trial. I can’t speak to that as I took the full membership but I wasn’t charged the $30 price listed there. I don’t know why, but I was only billed $20. I don’t know if that was a special offer or whether that’s the price now.
If this were a stand-alone site I couldn’t recommended it. It is too small, updates infrequently and has a lot of low grade material mixed in. I hoped for a better classics site from a company with Hustler’s resources. As a secondary site to the network it makes a decent addition but I do wish someone would create a better site than this. These older titles deserve better. |
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05-04-12 10:31am
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VideoBox
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Reply of
exotics4me's Review
I was thinking of rejoining VB myself but your review convinced me not to. I mean, ONLY 30,000 anal scenes??? That's it?? :-)
Seriously though, I have been thinking of rejoining as well. It's been a long time and, like you, even though I'm more picky these days than I used to be I'm sure I could find hundreds of scenes that interested me.
I'm also glad to hear that the are still pro-rating the additional channels. That can make them excellent values if bought later in your membership.
Thanks for the review.
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06-17-19 02:39pm
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VideoBox
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Reply of
exotics4me's Review
I read your review carefully hoping for something that might induce me to join VB again but you weren't able to provide that. I haven't been a VB member in a few years and it sounds like nothing has changed. The duplicate scenes probably shouldn't bug us so much, but like you, that really got under my skin.
VB remains an excellent option for someone just getting into porn collecting and moving away from the pirating sites, but for collectors like most of us here, it makes little sense. I see VB as a being like a buffet when you're a foodie and want gourmet.
Great review as usual!
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03-27-18 05:21pm
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VideoBox
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jake88's Review
Carefully consider any decision to add Evil Angel as a premium to VB. It may be that it works for you, but it might not. I know that with a monthly membership the Premium channels are pro-rated so they can be inexpensive if you wait to add them on until later in your monthly membership but I don't know how it works when you have an annual subscription.
The other thing to consider is video quality. I was a VB member a couple of months ago and added Elegant Angel. While it is true that the Premium channels offer 'HD' you can do much better on the actual studio site. It may not make a difference to you, but I'd join Evil Angel at the TBP discount and get true HD instead of adding the EA Premium channel at VB.
I should add that Evil Angel is among my top three favorite studio sites so that may influence my decision too. Your choice may be different, but think about quality and not just price.
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01-21-16 01:56pm
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VideoBox
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Pyrenees's Review
Another confirmation that this site is no longer worth joining. I kept a recurring membership there for several years but cancelled maybe five years ago. Back when I cancelled the recurring membership the site was starting to fall behind and they've done nothing to stop that gap from increasing. I'm convinced that they need to drop the five-DVDs-per-day and focus on quality DVDs and better file resolutions. I suspect that there are tube sites that have better quality.
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04-12-15 07:01am
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VideoBox
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Dirt D's Review
Great review, and I'm not just saying that because I agree with everything you wrote. You've provided some important details about some new changes to the site.
But... the fact remains that I do agree fully with what you wrote. The model the use is unsustainable and promotes quantity over quality. They need to pull back to one or two better updates per day rather than loading up the crap that they do.
What I am glad you reported on was the "HD" stuff is now lower quality. It wasn't great the last time I joined a few months back, but now knowing it's even worse I likely won't ever join again. Why would anyone pay to join VB when it doesn't offer them anything they can't get for free on a Tube site? One of the reasons I pay for porn is to get access to better quality.
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
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03-21-15 09:40am
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VideoBox
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mike11w's Reply
You and I are roughly the same age and for me the golden age of porn was from maybe 1993 to 2000. A lot of the reasons for that are personal and specific in that prior to 1993 porn videos were very hard to get where I lived thanks to draconian laws. But it became available in the early 1990s as porn started to move to gonzo. Gonzo then was a lot more fun to watch then the plot-based stuff of the 1970s and 80s. Those were the days when John Stagliano and Joey Silvera were creating and defining what would become modern porn. I do wish the quality was better, but I'll always be happy with a site that allows me to rebuild the porn video collection from my early days.
(In a way it's like music I guess. I grew up in the 1970s and most of the music I listen to is from that era. I'm not sure I could name five modern, popular bands.)
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01-27-15 05:25am
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VideoBox
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pat362's Reply
I'm with you. I purged my collection last year but couldn't part with some classics even though they're low resolution. I'm always on the hunt for more.
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12-17-14 06:02pm
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VideoBox
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pat362's Reply
Good point. If VB, or any other site, followed your suggestion I'd sign up for a long-term membership to support them.
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12-15-14 05:53pm
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VideoBox
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pat362's Reply
While I agree with you that it would be great if VB would licence and upload some older titles I don't know that they'd be better served overall. I'd love to have access to a wider catalogue of titles from good studios from the 1990s and 2000s.
But the problem with that is that's when guys our age started to get access to good porn and it means something to us. And guys like us are creeping into 'old man' category but some standards. So the younger members might not appreciate these older titles like we would.
I would definitely support a site that gave me decent quality old Anabolic/Diabolic stuff. And many other studios. Maybe I could fulfil my dream of owning every scene Tammi Ann or Inari Vachs did.
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12-15-14 04:17pm
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VideoBox
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PinkPanther's Comment
I just finished a month membership there and saw this happen twice - where a scene gets uploaded twice in a week because it appears in two crappy compilations. I suspect that there are some scenes on the site six times. Maybe more.
I've said it many times that VB would do well to change their business model. Push quality over quantity. I'd be happy with two good uploads per day rather than four crappy ones and one decent one.
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12-15-14 04:10pm
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VideoBox
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11-30-14 07:33am
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VideoBox
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elephant's Reply
I'm glad I could help you out. I do think that VB passed its prime a long time ago. I think the only reason they can offer such low prices is that they upload crap and only in low resolutions by today's standards.
Like you, I'll celebrate if Kink ever offers some kind of network access.
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06-25-14 05:12pm
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