Just thought I would update this. The price for Videobox is back to $14.95 with the TBP link. It doesn't change the Premium Channel price, but still, with both premium channels now available for $17.95, the total price is coming to $32.90 for VB + Vivid + Evil Angel.
I've tried running CCleaner, clearing all history in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera and cannot get the $14.95 TBP price.
Of note, they have now combined the two premium channels, Evil Angel and Vivid into one price for both. It changes depending on the resolution you choose from Videobox.
As example, if I went with the DVD resolution on Videobox the price shows up as $17.95.
To add BOTH Vivid and Evil Angel premium channels in DVD resolution is another $17.95. Used to be $17.95 each.
If I pick the lower resolution on Videobox the price is $9.95 per month and to add both Vivid and Evil Angel premium channels at the lower resolution is $9.95 for both.
I don't know if that's throwing the discount off or what is happening.
I remember being on TBP one day back in 2006 I think and there was a link that said something about being a part of a community of porn fans and how it was coming to TBP. Seems like you clicked the link and they sent out an email when PU was ready. You maybe could reserve your screenname too or something like that.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Blue Angel has seemingly came a long way from her earliest shoots. A beautiful blonde with a great personality.
- 78 scenes as of July 20, 2010. (scene breakdown in BL)
- Exclusive content, but not completely exclusive from the other 21st Sextury sites. At a quick glance, roughly 10 of the 78 scenes are available on Club Sandy as well. Though most are just backstage sets.
- Pictures are zipped, the maximum size continues to be 1280x852 or vice versa. Eventually this size photos will become a con. The zips and nice photography keep them here for now.
- The oldest 22 videos on the site have a "high" option to download that is 1280x720, the other 56 videos have the "ultra high" option that is 1920x1080 with 8000 bitrate. Will go into this more in BL.
- Nice mixture of solo, g/g and b/g content.
- Navigation is quite simple since there are only 3 pages of content.
- Probably the best place to start at if you want to collect Blue Angel content.
- Fast downloads, 95% of max DL speed
Cons:
- To start with, the site only updates once a week. In the last few months, every other new update is a backstage or "fun" set, so if you only join for a month, you're only get probably 2 actual porn updates in a month though a few of the fun ones are tease, so if you're into the tease sets those could be positives.
- The overlapping content with Club Sandy. Some isn't that noticeable since they are the backstage sets like, "Blue Angel and Sandy cooking" and you may not have even noticed those on Club Sandy, but a few are easily noticeable like the 3 part Sex Bunnies set that has been on Club Sandy for awhile now.
- Backstage and fun sets either have no pictures or 20-30. For some reason, I've always liked backstage and fun photos more than videos.
Bottom Line:
Since this site doesn't have a member review, I thought I would throw one in. First, Blue Angel is one of the better "newer" models. She reminds me very much of a mixture of Sandy from Club Sandy and maybe a touch of Sophie Moone with more of a kinky, hardcore side. To me, there is a lot of appeal there since she looks quite innocent until you see her fisting herself or sticking a huge dildo up her butt or having a threesome with two guys.
I understand the ideal 21st Sextury has here with this site, but honestly, they could just remove the content of all their models, slap each on a main page up and say they have 900 solo sites. The content in this site is not any different than Blue Angel's content on the other 21st Sextury sites.
Here are some breakdowns that I found interesting.
Boy/Girl sets - 7 including two b/b/g sets
Girl/Girl sets - 20 including several with more than 2 girls.
Solo - 22 sets
Fun/backstage - 29
In the site's defense, a couple of the "fun" videos are solo sets of Blue Angel, listed as "private sex tapes" that are her masturbating without all the gloss and glam. A few are also sexually playful with other female models and I really like the tease videos. Especially the one showing her flexibility in skin-tight white pants. Oh and interesting note if you've ever been to California or lived in California. She has one backstage set at Los Angeles' restaurant Madeo, which I think most people who have been to California have been to at least once. Also a set with Sandy in San Diego. My only real problem with these backstage/fun sets is that some of them are more focused on Sandy than Blue Angel. No offense meant to Sandy, but if it's on Blue Angel's site, I expect her to be the focus.
The technical quality of the videos is very good. These are the options for the newest 56 videos.
H.264 (low) 640x360
WMV & H.264 (medium) 960x540
WMV & H.264 (high) 1280x720
WMV & H.264 (ultra high) 1920x1080
No joke, the low H.264 is not bad at all if you're pressed for hard drive space. The ultra high is crystal clear and most are well over 1.0 GB for each full scene.
The oldest 22 sets have the H.264 low option and the medium and high options are only available in WMV.
I do think they need to consider upping the size of the pictures. They've made big steps with their video technical quality, but the picture resolution is the same as it was 4 years ago.
The site is good, but it could not stand on its own, in my opinion. It's very similar in that sense to Twisty's Anette Dawn site. It works nice as a bonus site, but unless you're a huge Blue Angel fan, it just wouldn't cut it. I would like to see them do more with her, especially in the really glam sets like the one titled "A Lonely Afternoon". She's really a gorgeous woman in that set. She also has good energy in all of her sets and seems to enjoy the action, bordering on nympho in the b/b/g sets. Wouldn't recommend it as a standalone site, but it's good as a bonus site.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Re-review of the site I gave my highest score of 99 to. Many changes on the site made it worth re-reviewing it to reflect those changes.
- Few sites have as many beautiful models as this site that has been around since 2003.
- New network format does make navigation much better than in the past. You click a model's thumbnail, click "all scenes" and there are all the scenes they have of the model across the network.
- Club Sandy itself now updates every other day at a minimum, they slip an extra update in every week or so. The network access you initially start with updates 4 times a day.
- Last year or so of updates are available in HD quality, previous years varies depending on site.
- Pictures are zipped and their pictures have always stood out to me for their uses of colors. I can spot a 21st Sextury picture without the copyright on it.
- Downloads were fast for me, about 95% of my max download speed.
- Really good price that goes down the more months you stay.
Cons:
- I've run into several video files that give me a "forbidden" message. One to show as an example, Courtney (Asian model) on Zoliboy's site, some of the individual clips will download, but the full clip gives the forbidden message. I ran into a few others like that as well.
- Too much shifting of content from one site to another. They're not doing it on the new updates though, just to fluff the archives of each model on a specific site.
- Figuring out what sites you receive in the first month seems to be confusing for some. This doesn't apply in my case since I've been joining these sites, even as the old network style, and have gotten used to it.
- Older content is lesser quality, but I'm hesitant to take much off for this since members of all sites seem to be split on the practice of remastering old sets.
Bottom Line:
While I lowered the score a few points, I would still say this is one of the 5 best sites on the internet, especially if you're looking for value. The price goes like this with the TBP link $19.95 first month, $14.95 second month, $9.95 per month every month at 3 months and beyond. That's value, 4 updates across the network, 30 days, 120 updates for $9.95 if you stay at least 3 months. Also you get 10 new sites for sticking around more than a month.
Lets get the positives out of the way. You're just not going to find many sites/networks with the amount of content 21st Sextury has. Some of the numbers are just staggering to me. Some of the all-time favorite Euro models and their total sets, Sophie Moone 404 sets, Sandy 355 sets, Eve Angel 132 sets, Zafira 100 sets, Blue Angel 92, Cindy Hope 90, Peaches 70 and each of those sets has a video and picture set in them. You also are unlikely to find more content of Mia Stone on any site, as she has 25 sets here.
I probably do understand how some may not see the significance of those numbers since maybe, like me, they've been on these sites and already have most of those. However, for someone who has never joined, you're not going to find a site with this much content of Europe's top-tier models.
I really like the new members area design, it's cleaner, less cluttered and all content of each model can be found by clicking the model, without having to bounce from site to site to find the content. My only complaint here is that the model's content does show sets which may be on a site in their network that you have to wait 1-2 months before you get access to. That's just asking for a pissed off member.
The negatives to me include a user problem when it comes to figuring out which sites you get with the 1st month's access. I believe I've done it enough to explain in short form. Go to whichever site you want to join through, click "full network", a page opens, look in the right hand upper corner of the visitors section for a drop down menu and it will list all the sites you get instant access to.
Content bouncing from one site to another. Just a few months ago, I noticed Pix and Video once again had the Eve Angel/Maxxo bathroom hardcore set. It started out years ago on Pix and Video. Then it was shifted to Euro Horny Sluts then it was shifted back to Pix and Video, now it's not on Pix and Video.
The site that seems to have the most problems in this network is Zoliboy. I'm happy to see it going back to more of the glam models with a couple new updates recently of Simony Diamond, but several of the "forbidden" files came from Zoliboy and it is some of the oldest content on the site.
I have very little to truly complain about here. I've paid upwards of $30 a month just for Eve Angel solo site, while this site has as much or more content of her and roughly another 1,000 models. Hopefully they can work through the few glitches of turning many sites into one network. Still highly recommended.
I had noticed Denner's question about 1byday and thought I would bring everyone up to speed on how the DDFProd site is doing.
Updates are still coming in at a fairly fast pace. In the last week there have been 25 updates or about 3.5 per day across the 10 sites. I'm not for sure if I really like the Casting site they have added. Most of those are very tame and if you look at any of their casting models, then look at them once they are past the casting stages there is a huge difference in how they look. I've always been more for the glam models, so those updates are of little interest to me. The DDF, used to be standalone sites, Hot Legs and Feet, DDF Busty, Only Blowjob are still updating, but the last two seem to be down to no more than 2 updates per week. Hot Legs and Feet has had 4 updates in the last week.
Navigation is still okay, except that they still haven't fixed the repeating scenes from site to site. I downloaded the same Carmen/Ginger scene from three different sites on the network without realizing it was the same scene since the file names show up differently. On a semi-related note, some of the scenes that are obvious repeats from one of their other sites may actually have a little different content in them. Looks to be shot at the same shoot, but for example, a g/g set of Regina Ice/Brandy Smile starts with them playing with paint in one video, while another video on other network site is the same scene, same outfits, same location, but starts with them kissing. Meaning, you might want to a second look at the scenes that seem like repeats since you may be missing a part you would have liked.
With the TBP price at $29.95, I still think it's a good deal. Estimating the updates for a month based on the last week would be 100 updates in a month for $29.95. I do still like Denys' models and style of shooting their sets. The newest Black Angelica sets he has are the best I've seen of her, implants or not. Ava Blue is another I've noticed that I hadn't seen before though her tattoos and implants may push others away.
Oh and one other minor complaint is the continued use of posting new updates that only have photo sets, when you click video it wants to send you to Eve Angel's site or Sapphic Erotica. Probably would stick with my reviewed score if re-reviewing it.
I don't think it matters that much either if at all. If I'm watching a movie it's because I either like the actors/actresses, story or director. Pretty much the same way I approach porn site reviews too.
I too had the problem on Videobox, except they charged me for a month after I canceled. After talking to their customer service they said it had to do with their biller resetting the billing server, apologized, refunded the month they charged me for and gave me 3 months free membership.
I'm really not for sure what site you are looking at. I'm currently in the Club Sandy members area and there are no drop down menus anywhere in it. Step by step on finding models on it. You click a little tab at the top that says "models". This brings up 48 models on the page. You can then specify whether you want them listed alphabetically or by rating. It reorganizes those 48 to your preference. At the bottom below the 48 is 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on, clicking each brings up the next 48. Over on the far left side of the page there is an alphabet. You click the letter and it brings up the first 48 models with that letter to start their name. Honestly, not a drop down menu in sight on the site.
On a few of those sites you named as favorites, Magic Blondes, Flexy Pussy, add one I always liked Open Air Pleasures, those sites content came from Pix and Video and Club Sandy. One of my favorite scenes from Open Air Pleasures is of Eve Angel, titled Siren, she is masturbating on a boat. Though I don't get Open Air Pleasures it is on Pix and Video now, which I do get. Most of those sites were content shared with Club Sandy and Pix and Video and I'm guessing they've put the content back on Club Sandy or Pix and Video.
It's really not bad at all in the members section. The models now have their own page with clickable name and clickable number of scenes on whatever site you are on. If you click the model's name, it brings up all of her available content on the network sites you have access to. If you click the number, just the content available on that particular site in the network.
I guess when I very first started joining online sites it was more of an impulse. Hustler's site got me with an impulse join since I remember reading old Hustler magazines. Public Flash was an impulse since some of their preview sets were filmed in California in places I had been. Nowadays though, I usually just join the sites I'm familiar with and know I will like. So I picked "other".
I had been meaning to join Club Sandy again since it was my highest rated site. I figured I would either re-review it, since they've made a lot of changes or I would change the score depending on how the changes were going. So far, I like the member section. I've added a few new models to collect over the last few months and being able to see all of each model's available content in one area, no matter the site in the network, is very helpful. I would compare that to having 1,000+ solo sites since all of each model's content can be found by clicking on their thumbnail. I'll give it a week or two before re-reviewing or doing a comment/review to see how good it works, but so far, so good.
As a humorous side note, they now use Seg Pay as their biller. I've used them several times with good experiences each time, but does anyone else find the thank you message a bit funny? After approval, I received the message, "Thank you, you've taken the first steps to a happier and more successful life". That's like getting a fortune cookie with your porn!
There isn't any boy/girl hardcore in the main content. The bonus content has a lot of boy/girl hardcore though, Silver Sinema if I remember correctly produces most of their bonus content. The main content is similar to say FTV and ALS. They have big insertions, anal masturbation, fisting, it's about as hardcore as it gets in solo porn. They also have some lesbian sets that involve everything from general lesbian sex to big dildos to anal play. If I was to compare it to a site it would be ALS since they do have the high quality photos and videos combined with the style of the action ALS usually has. If or when you try it out be sure not to miss the bonus sections. It's like having a bonus DVD site with HD content built into the main site.
Jeffrey, I personally use Firefox with Reality Kings and it lets me download 8 files at a time. Also, if you look at Spencer's TBP review, he was using Internet Download Manager without any problems. I choose to just do the 8 at a time since the files are large, usually 500 MB to 1 GB and I'm usually near the computer. My response to the comment was more based on davidsinma saying there are still download limits. It was me looking for a possible reason why he ran into a DL limit as I've downloaded over 100 scenes in a day without a DL limit showing up.
I know there are some sites that have a problem with members loading up a download manager that uses multiple connections and causes strain on their server. I was assuming davidsinma had maybe loaded up and strained their server.
I will however turn a download manager on and test it out to see if they are limiting as the comment says.
Lastly, while the DL limit davidsinma mentions wouldn't be a big deal as 60 scenes in a day is a lot, the old RK DL limit was 1 GB per day, which equaled at best 3 full scenes per day, as you can see that was a major letdown for members.
The good news is, they have updated this site in the last few days, so it is at least still active. As I mentioned to atrapat, I would steer clear of their tour page as it is not close to accurate. It says 4,500 DVDs, 25,000 scenes and 5 new DVDs per day. By my count on the three sites combined they don't have 1/4th that much content and haven't even added 5 new DVDs in the last 3 weeks let alone in a day. Still, the content they have is very good. Just makes you wish they would be a little more upfront about how much content they have and how much (little) they update.
Yeah it was Memorial Day here in the States this past weekend. I did notice the Third Movies blog/update had been updated a few days ago so it seems to be updating fine, but ZTOD, still hasn't updated anything. It's been 20 days since the last DVD update or blog update. I hope it's just a holiday or vacation problem as I do think the three sites combined can compare with any DVD site since they have the higher quality.
I may have not been clear on the Courtney Cummz part, as I was pointing out the amount of rarer, exclusive scenes they have and they seem to have more of her when she was all-natural as other sites do. And I really think they should work on changing the tour page. I tried not to draw too much attention to it, but this is what their tour promises, "Over 4,500 DVDs, over 25,000 scenes and 5 new DVDs per DAY". My numbers added up to roughly 900 DVDs on the three sites combined, roughly 4,500 scenes and 3 new DVDs in the last 3 weeks.
A little history on the Anette site and model. At one time this site was a standalone site that cost $25 a month to join with no bonus content, no Twistys access. Anette, according to a well-known Euro photographer, is a very shy girl in front of the camera. She had been in an accident when she was younger that left scars on her stomach. Some insensitive porn fans had asked about airbrushing the scars out, some sites did and it seemed to kill what confidence she had developed. Also, her age was in question since in a 2004 video on Club Sandy, she says she is celebrating her 24th birthday, which would put her around 31 now.
To the best of my knowledge, she has been inactive for a couple of years now. The content on this site is either from old content Shap has in the vault or is just being re-released as new content since it is now just a bonus site. I believe her last set on any site was on 1byday and was very softcore, not even masturbation. She's still one of my favorites and I was one of those who joined this site for $25 when it first opened. I highly doubt there will be anymore real "new" content of her anywhere on any site.
Agree 100% with you though, for a free bonus site it is very good. You may already know it, but Twistys also has the Nicole Graves (nicolegravesdotcom) site, for whatever reason they don't list it, but you can sign in on it with your Twistys login info. It's very similar to this Annette Dawn site, was once a $25 per month solo site.
I'm not a big soccer fan, but do usually watch the World Cup. I'm thinking either Brazil or Italy wins it. As an American, I found my interest in the World Cup by watching a documentary DVD (Brazil Street Soccer) about the World Cup and how much it means to a country like Brazil. I was almost shocked to see kids as young as 2 playing soccer and doing the Brazilian chants. That's passion we don't see in much else these days and fueled my interest in the tournament though I have very little working knowledge of the game and its rules. It seems to be a much more popular sport in America now than when I was a kid, as we focused on baseball, football, basketball and to a lesser extent hockey.
On a related note, a former co-worker from Nigeria said he never got into American football until watching a similar documentary DVD about American football called The Perfect Effort.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- My favorite of the three sites included, ZTOD, Black Ice Pass and 3rd Movies or how I remember it as 3rd Degree.
- By itself, has nearly 2,000 scenes with nearly 800 of them having 1920x1080 resolution option.
- Has more picture sets than the other two sites combined, with nearly 1,100 photo sets, zipped as well.
- It's best strength for me are the "MILF" videos, though these women aren't really in the mature group, you get some of the finest 27-35 year old models in the business in them. Most of my favorite models fall in that age range so those help this site nudge its two other sites.
- Some of Angel Dark's best work, would join once just to get her scenes.
- For whatever reason, my download speeds here are faster than on the other two sites. I'm still not getting quite my average speed, but very close.
- Higher exclusivity rate than the other two, very few of these, to my knowledge, are available on other DVD sites.
Cons:
- They seemed to have a good thing going with several series, like the MILF Orgy series, but just stopped making them and went to the basic boy/girl, damsel in distress style.
- I look at these 3 sites, especially 3rd Movies as collector sites. The major models you'll find here are almost always in exclusive scenes that will round your collection out nicely. That's a major con if you're not a collector since it's still mostly just plain, gonzo porn.
- Ran into a few broken links on older files and ended up downloading the lowest quality option as the only option that worked.
Bottom Line:
It's hard to tell if the owners of these three sites favor one of the sites. Sibling rivalry? Most of the models here are also available on the ZTOD site. It just seems to me that the scenes here on 3rd Movies are better. Some of the real standouts include:
Angel Dark with 33 scenes just on this site. For those unaware, Ms. Dark nearly passed away a few years ago from kidney failure. These scenes are the ones she filmed in after a successful surgery and she seems to have a ton of passion that had been missing from her earlier scenes in her career. She's one of the best in the all-natural beauty models group. Over 20 Lanny Barbie scenes. Over 20 of each of these, Sasha Grey, Amy Reid, Lilane Tiger and Jenna Haze just to name a few of my favorites.
The majority of these scenes are exclusive. The pictures aren't very good quality, but there are over 1,000 photo sets and all are zipped.
Just tested the download speed as with the others and am receiving 1.6 MB/s or a little better than I do on its sister sites. Navigation is simple on this site. You can search by name, rating, most downloaded or use the leveled search engine to find the niche within a niche that you're looking for.
It's bittersweet reviewing this site. The good news is, it has updated in the last week with one DVD, but I'm positive they've advertised updating much more than that. I even think on one page they advertise updating 5 DVDs a day. They're not going to reach that in a month. It's another of those sites that could be a major contender. I wouldn't even expect the 5 DVDs per day. Give me 1 new one a week and keep bringing in some of the best models in porn and I'm happy since they do at least have the HD resolution.
Also will mention the two sites included ZTOD and Black Ice Pass can be accessed by just clicking on the name of which one you want to go to. No signing in again, no hassle and we're bittersweet again since most multi-sites put us through a hassle when bouncing from site to site.
I believe they could put all 3 together into one site, making searching for favorite models on the different sites, much easier and they would be close to knocking Videobox out of the top DVD spot. As it is right now, I'm just hoping they improve the download speed, give a few more updates per week and keep the stars coming in, in mostly exclusive content.
As a standalone site it would be recommended as the one month join and when combined with the bonus sites, it's a definite join for a month. It surprised me how many scenes they have of some models who I've collected for years and hadn't seen.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Nearly all black porn, some stretching the truth exists as some of the darker Hispanic models are being listed as black, but it's one of the bigger collections of black models on the internet.
- 210 DVDs, 1,100 scenes, 466 of the scenes are listed as having the 1920x1080 resolution option.
- Has more photo sets than ZTOD, nearly 750 photo sets are available though to my eye, they are most likely just screencaps, but are at least zipped.
- Has over 20 scenes with some of the top black female stars, a real rarity in my opinion, since finding 3 or 4 scenes of some of these beautiful models is hard to do.
- Comes with access to ZTOD and 3rd Movies
- TBP discount of $19.95 makes it a good join for all of these rare scenes.
- ZTOD hasn't updated in nearly 3 weeks, but Black Ice Pass has updated in the last week, so maybe they will continue to update it.
Cons:
- Download speed is a pain on this site. Seems to download even slower than ZTOD. I downloaded two HD scenes over 1 GB each and had to wait nearly an hour for them to download.
- May not be the most popular thing to say, but black male pornstars are available in nearly all mainstream porn, interracial porn, too many of these DVDs are black men with white women. I'm still waiting for some site to deliver a black woman site, with white men, black men, Asian men, etc...
- One of the most disappointing things for me, one series I was looking forward to downloading, The Big Ass Slumber Party series is here, 7 or 8 volumes of it. I've found these scenes in the past to be some of the best lesbian porn I've seen. I go to download a couple of the older scenes and received broken link messages that the videos were not found. This happened on all but 2 scenes in volume 2.
Bottom Line:
The main thing you're going to get here is some truly beautiful black women in hardcore sex. The problem is the site itself. DVDs titled, "My wife was robbed" featuring black men with white women. Blah, blah, blah, it's redundant after the 1,000th scene based on bad black man taking advantage of sweet, innocent white housewife. The site does sell itself on its black female models. If you go to the main page that's all you'll see. So, why they are pushing typical interracial DVDs out is beyond my comprehension.
I can't complain about the quality. Nearly half of the scenes are available in 1920x1080 resolution, the pictures are nice, though small and they are zipped.
Broken links plagued many of the older videos they have on here and if not broken links, then half the video options they usually have are not working and you end up downloading a low quality DIVX file. I think someone's tech crew took an extended break.
If you're familiar with Pinky, they do have a few of her videos and even a couple of her DVDs. These usually are lesbian DVDs, as I do believe Pinky is a real lesbian, not just a for pay lesbian. You end up getting some of the most believable and realistic lesbian porn on the internet with her DVDs.
Download speeds, just tested while typing out this review, on one of the newer scenes, 1.15 MB/s. I top out in the 3.0-3.2 MB/s range so you can see, I'm maybe getting 1/3 my best speed and less than half my average speed. Important to note that some of these scenes are well over 2 GB each. You're going to be here for awhile if you want the HD versions.
It's still hard to completely slam the site for its technical problems because you're going to get a very nice collection of black models if you stick with it. A couple of favorites with large amounts of scenes include:
Cherokee Dass - 25 scenes, Delotta Brown - 13 scenes, Tia Sweets - 10 scenes, Angel Eyes - 10 scenes. Tia seems to be more widely available, but Delotta doesn't have nearly enough content on most sites, but the 13 scenes here make this site worth joining for me just for her scenes. Also 16 scenes of Candice Nicole.
The questionable use of Latina models as black can be seen easily with 11 scenes of Ice La Fox. I usually favor Latina models, so I'm not really complaining as much as I am saying, if you're going to sell your site as a black model site, have black models.
On its own, I would probably still join it one time. Once combined with ZTOD and 3rd Movies, it is still a very good deal again, the archived movies are worth a month membership. My only way I've found to combat the slow download speed is to download 4 scenes at one time. Even then, the combined speed is still only around 1.7 MB/s. Recommended, especially if you're having trouble finding black models, but I can't say it would be worth more than a one month join.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Comes with full access to Black Ice, ZTOD and 3rd Degree studios. I'm going to try to separate each into separate reviews.
- Though no longer a very high exclusivity DVD site, I would still estimate the ZTOD DVDs are 60% exclusive to this site. The added TBP discount price makes it a good deal.
- A few major stars have a good amount of exclusive content here. Courtney Cummz, a gorgeous blonde, all-natural, has over 70 scenes just on ZTOD.
- A nice blend of Euro and American stars. Everyone from Jenna Haze to Eva Angelina to Angel Dark to Rita Faltayono.
- Where the site really stands out among DVD sites is the video resolution. Rough estimate, half of the 2,500 scenes are at least 1280x720 resolution, around 800 according to their member search show up as 1920x1080. Very few if any DVD sites offer that high of quality.
- Some picture sets are available as well, though not high resolution, but are at least zipped for download.
Cons:
- Depending on your view, this could be a deal breaker. I have been a member since mid-May, no new updates whatsoever. I'm not for sure what they had been using as an update schedule. I was thinking 3 DVDs a week or so, but as of right now, in two weeks, they've not even had one scene, let alone a full DVD.
- Download speed problems, I've seen this mentioned in other reviews and here are the results I've been receiving. On average, the ZTOD scenes are downloading at 1.5 MB/s. My average speed on all other sites is in the 2.5 MB/s range and I have topped 3.0 MB/s on some sites. It's not too bad since my connection is fast, but there is definitely a problem with their download speeds.
Bottom Line:
I was very high on this site a few years ago. Back then, their selling point was their exclusivity. Over time, Videobox started picking up quite a few of their DVDs. However, I still think they have a higher exclusivity rate than the other major DVD sites.
The positives start with exclusive videos. As a collector, I can always find dozens of scenes here that I've not seen on any other sites. I consider their search engine a positive as well. It's a level search where you search niche then you can search within the results. As example, say you search for "anal" then once those results come up, you can search for Asian and it will give you the scenes featuring anal with Asians. It seems to be pretty accurate from my use of of it.
The video quality is now the big positive. Of the 2,500 scenes, around 800 are 1920x1080 and probably add another 400 that are at least 1280x720. I do think they are the only DVD site that offers that many HD scenes. Coupled with the exclusivity and you can see that this is a very good site.
When I joined this current time, a new DVD had been added just a few days before. Since then, over two weeks, there have been zero updates. I don't know if the site has just stopped producing new scenes or if they are taking a break or whatever, but this means if you've been here lately, skip it, since nothing has changed in the last month. I'm taking the stopped making new scenes options since they have a blog/update page that was almost always updated with everything from jokes to talk about new starlets they had filmed. It also stopped updating on the same day the last DVD was released.
The download speed was not completely terrible for me, but it was at times only about 1/2 of my normal download speed. This can be a major problem if you're wanting those 1920x1080 files. Most of those ring in at 2 GB or higher each, so huge file combined with slow download speed is a problem.
One other negative, for some reason they've decided to have all videos on auto start when you click one to download it. I used Firefox's No Script with some success to stop this, but it seemed when I used No Script, it messed the search engine up since No Script blocked some of the search functions. Yeah, phooey, was my feeling too.
On a side note, this site is owned by the company that owns Videoz.
I mention this because their main tour has a few very big misleading numbers in it. The main tour says, "Choose from over 4,500 DVDs". ZTOD itself has 338 DVDs in their search engine. Even including both bonus sites, the total DVDs available is still under 1,000. I'm not for sure if maybe they are merging their sites or what so I'm basing my score just on the 338 DVDs ZTOD has available and they are very good. Especially with the high quality. If you've never been a member, it's a definite recommended site for the archived videos they already have, but nothing more than a month unless they start updating again.
I've yet to hit a DL limit, downloading as many as 100 scenes in one day. Try it without using the DL manager. That may very well go into "being a member in good standing" since their sites don't consistently work well with DL managers.
That may have been the deal you received, but back when I did it, it allowed me to switch the remainder of the membership to one of their other sites without paying. Of note, the month I did it, was the very last month they updated Give Me Pink with the Eva Smile set so I don't know if they changed it now as that was over a year ago, but it was a direct shift of remaining membership to another site at that time.
I believe if I remember correctly all photo sets after mid-2008 are zipped, but they didn't go back and zip the sets that were already up. Video quality was 640 high end from what I remember. Though if you're interested in this site, I would recommend joining through Pacino's Adventures, not Pacino's World or La Zona Modelos. If you join through Pacino's Adventures you get La Zona Modelos as a bonus site and Pacino's Adventures has quite a collection of HD quality videos all exclusive.
I don't think any of their sites are updating any longer. I had talked with a site rep or webmaster who said their costs were too much to keep filming new content at the high technical quality that they were filming in. I don't know if that's true or not, but as a side note, can't guarantee this either, but when I was last a member it was when they had stopped updating. When I went to cancel after 2 weeks as a member, it gave me the option to transfer my remaining 2 weeks to any of their other sites. Kind of making it like a network except you had to go through the switching sites part.
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