I went with "other" for a couple of reasons. One, I hate download limits of any kind. My first "punished" review was of Kink's Ultimate Surrender back in 2007 or so, where I removed 20 points because they had a 10 GB per month limit. I probably wouldn't have been that upset if I hadn't run out of GB limit before even downloading, all of the star of the site's content, Dragon Lily. Of course, 10 GB per month was just crazy. Reality Kings back then had a 1 GB per day limit which was nearly as bad. Bang Bros always said they have a 500 MB per day limit, but I never ran into it.
I have wondered about some sites lately like Reality Kings who had a Year End Blowout, $9.95 "trial" deal through freeones in December. As others had shown me with Naughty America, they use the 1st month low price of $9.95 and list it as a trial. I never downloaded enough on NA to find out if these trial low price first month memberships were limited. Which if so, could explain Reality Kings making their limit active again. I am almost positive that the freeones deals reverted back to the regular price after the first month, unlike most of the TBP deals that allow you to keep the discounted price throughout the course of your membership as long as you let it recur. Just a thought since we all know how nearly all porn sites can be these days when it comes to trying to get a large number of new members at one time.
The reason I picked "other" though, my cable internet company sent me a postcard this time last year that said I had gone over the 100 GB per month download/upload bandwith limit. Which I had no idea I had a limit. Once I showed them that I wasn't doing anything illegal with the bandwith like file sharing, they backed off and told me not to worry about the "limit" but did show me where AT&T U-Verse internet has a bandwith limit listed in their terms, Charter internet had one in their terms and Comcast internet had one in their terms.
They do seem to be pulling away from it though. If however the Internet Providers do start limiting how much bandwith we can use and the number varied in those I saw from 100-250 GB a month, it wouldn't make it that unrealistic for sites to start limiting since we could only download theoretically 3-8 GB per day based on those internet provider limits. I hope it doesn't come to that, but I would think if it does, there isn't much other choice available but to accept it.
I went to join Videobox a few days ago, going through the TBP link, I am seeing the $12 price slategrey mentioned, but when I went to pay there was no option to add Vivid and Evil Angel like before. So I tried it going straight to it and reverting to the "old site" there was the option of joining Vivid for $10 and Evil Angel for $10, which I had planned on joining both.
This is where I'm confused. Since I know the Kink channel is only available through the new format VB3, if you join through the old site, I know you can switch to VB3 during membership, but does it still allow you to add the VB3 only channels? Though I still prefer the old site, I think this confusion could be a sign that it's time to either revert back and stay back on the easier to use old site or go ahead and move forward with VB3 only.
Different options from one format to the other is just asking for this type of confusion. The other reason this is confusing is VB has sent me promo offers during active memberships that say, "Add Evil Angel for $15" or "Add Vivid for $15". If I join through the old site, I can add each of those for $10 each, from the beginning of the membership.
It does somewhat. I'm sure Shap, formerly of Twistys, helped his site's case with an open mind to criticism and friendly disposition to even those who were being critical. On the other hand, I've known a few webmasters, won't mention her name, that put their site on a blacklist for me just because of her attitude. I tried and tried to give that site a chance since I did find her attractive and found the niche she did interesting, but couldn't talk myself into joining it. Others, especially the big sites, I don't expect much interaction from them and look over their lack of interest in opinion from their members as long as they keep delivering the content that brought me to the site in the first place.
I had noticed the comments about the ATK sites receiving overhauls and the Santa Claus of porn sent me a promo offer to rejoin so I was a bit, happily, surprised at the new changes. Everything now looks nice and colorful, easy on the eyes too. It doesn't feel like I'm looking at a site that hasn't been changed since 1998. So the initial appearance of the new format gets an A. The models are improving too, in my opinion, I have already found a couple I hadn't seen anywhere before, that have over 2,000 photos each already.
The update schedule is now much clearer and easier to find. By my count they are updating with 7 photo sets per day on Monday-Saturday and 10 videos on Sunday.
That's an impressive update count, 42 photo sets and 10 videos per week.
The newest pictures, tried 3 different sets from 3 different studios, seem to be coming in at a consistent 3000 long end resolution.
The newer videos have an HD option that is 1280x720 and they do run very smoothly. I had been having some problems with HD videos causing odd color blotches during playback.
Very impressed overall so far with this longtime favorite that I've had my share of complaints about over the years. The site is finally catching up to the models. I may even give Galleria a try after several years of being away since this one has impressed me this much with its changes.
I had meant to get back to you on the wording in the terms, but the holiday got in the way. My terms say the same as yours and I think you might have nailed it when you said "A site can certainly impose whatever conditions they want, but those conditions should be clear and applied equally to all members." While I like that RK doesn't seem to ever impose the limit on my account, it looks bad on the ones of us that review a site or post a comment that says no download limit then they impose it on others. Even worse is when they let me download unlimited. Let you download less than 10 GB per day one day then let you download much more the next. I have tried to figure up some kind of rhyme or reason for how their DL limit works, but I can't.
And the type of models is another reason PU works so well, if members read multiple reviews. I was ready to be blown away by Teen Mega World after so many high reviews only to be letdown because nearly all the models were slim. RK, on the other hand, as you're seeing is full of curvy women, which is more my preference.
I definitely would for a month and have several times. Raven Riley's site is a good example. Her site is worth even the $30 price to get all the content she has on it.
I had meant to reply to this earlier since you may collect Lana. I wouldn't have believed it, but I found a very explicit set of Lana at Kink's Fucking Machines, really surprised me seeing Lana on there, but the set was worth more than this whole solo site was. Also found 3 lesbian sets of her on Brazzers which I wouldn't have expected either. For some reason I always had a problem with confusing Lana Lopez and Luna Lane so I first thought those were Luna, but they are Lana including maybe the "cutest" femdom set with Lana dominating Ella Milano. It looks like it hurts Lana just to act "mean". But those three sets are much more than I'm used to seeing her in.
Thanks for this info slutty, it goes to show how much the tour does hurt them. Heading into a slow period at work and have joined 3 sites, but none are Wicked Pictures, even though I had it at the top of my list to try out. I never had paid much attention or joined it until I saw it showing up in the toolbar of the members area on Brazzers. I think sites could at least give a model list with number of sets even without samples, just to let a potential member know who all is on the site and how many scenes. I'll join it eventually, but it probably has been pushed back another 2-3 months at least.
Yeah, I agree about the wiggle room. Someone else had posted that they were told by RK that the limit was between 60-70 big files per day. I have tried hitting it the last two days, but can't. I tried the same thing I had asked you about, downloading the biggest files possible, 48 GB one day, 62 the next. I'm now even wondering about location you download from since I'm not that advanced in technology, I wouldn't know if longer distances cause more stress on servers. Either way, they have always been loose about their rules. To put it in perspective, over 4 memberships this year, I have the entire sites, 8th Street Latinas, We Live Together, In the VIP, CFNM Secret, Mike in Brazil and Mike's Apartment, just add the newest updates when they come out and randomly add from the other sites when it's a model I like. And this too is my lack of technology understanding, but comes from my experience buying hard drives. Amount of gigabytes are rounded or never are the number we see. Seems like member Justme explained it in the forum one time, something about binary numbers, technical gibberish that I don't put forth the effort to fully understand.
Last thing, you may be onto something with the part about downloading from them everyday. I only have 3 days a week that I download and even then I sometimes have more than one site membership, so it could be that my limit, since not downloading sometimes for as many as 6 days in a row, builds up, if it's cumulative. And if I look at my RK folder on my external, it is a total of close to 1 TB this year. Four memberships 10 GB per day x 30 days = 300 GB per membership or 1.2 TB. I'll try a few more times over the next 2 weeks of this membership and see how much it lets me download.
Do you ever have trouble with Media Player Classic Home Cinema requesting updates? I like it as well as I do VLC, mainly because I like the spot zoom feature, but it keeps telling me to update Direct X June 2010 or something like that.
On a past related note, I was messing with VLC the other day and had it open a second window that had full controls while in full screen on the on the other screen. Have no clue had I did it. I remember we talked about that feature before. I haven't tried it lately, in-laws are in for the holidays, but I am thinking I pushed one of the number pad buttons since I was seeing if I could make VLC zoom like Media Player Classic does.
And on the poll, I picked VLC since I use it the most.
I'm curious about something. Are you downloading HD videos? I'm a member right now and wasn't even testing it, just general downloading, and downloaded the entire CFNM Secret site. I separated them by model so I don't have a definite number, but I know it had to be upwards of 100 GB total, but there is one catch, I do not download any of the HD videos. In the old days of the download limit, it was only imposed on the "big" files. Those are now the basic wmv files, 640-720 high end res on those videos. I still just download those. I'm wondering since it did used to be specified as "big" if the HD ones have now become a part of the limit instead of the basic .wmv ones?
Either that or maybe it's because I sign up through their promo emails from being a member off and on since 2007-08. The old block didn't even work that way. Used to you would get a message that said "you have reached your daily limit of "big" files" but you could continue to access, you could even download the parts of videos and pictures. Check that out one day and see if they are imposing it on the basic .wmv full scenes. Maybe it's a perk of signing up through their emails?
I'm not trying to sway you away from the RK channel, but it's very limited compared to the RK site. Using the TBP price, there isn't that much difference in the RK channel and the actual site. I know there has been some talk about RK's download limits, but believe me when I say they are not that bad. I have photos on imageshack of folders I downloaded a few months ago from RK. I did 5 days in a row, averaging 64 GB a day and didn't hit a limit once. I don't know if the limit is now on HD but I don't download their HD clips since they are long anyway, 30-45 minutes. A few years back, RK was pretty strict on DL limits, but they really have loosened up on them.
I have been intrigued by the Kink channel too. Though I don't really go for the harder content, I have always liked Ultimate Surrender, Public Disgrace and Fucking Machines. Plus I like anything with Dragon Lily in it and it seems like she is on several of their sites I haven't been on. Glad you mentioned that about prorating the price. I didn't know they did that. I may have to give the Kink channel a one week try the next time I join VB.
No idea what happened here, but everything has changed. There were new updates, but I don't know if they have moved them to the DDF Network or what. This site itself is rotating old content if you look at the calender. Also noticed Eve's wiki page has been stripped down to hardly no information. The single site join price has dropped a couple dollars to $22.95, but gives you a nice heads up that you can get the site with the DDF Network now. I don't know if that means Eve has retired or what, though her performance quality had really been suffering in the newest sets I have seen of her so I would rather her retire then stick around and be boring.
I think this is a really good add to their network since it was selling by itself for $25 and I personally had joined it multiple times over the last year.
Eve Angel solo sites have forever ruined holiday sets for me. Nearly every year for the last 7 years Eve has had a bunny rabbit costume set for Easter, a foot fetish Halloween set where she rubs her feet into a pumpkin and I think at least 7 in Santa outfits.
I had joined this site after a promo email from Met-Art. The content, while mostly exclusive, isn't exclusive as a whole. I couldn't put a number on the amount of exclusive scenes since I don't collect all these models, but I can give some examples that may explain why the one member review here talks about technical issues with the photo and video quality.
On Eve Angel's content here on The Life Erotic, at least 6 of the 12 sets they have of Eve are from the old Eve Angel site, including a set, Eve drinking milk and pouring it on her body, that dates back to 2004. That photo and video set and the old stairs set (listed as Stairway to Heaven on Eve's old site) from Eve's site were released as exclusive on The Life Erotic. And both were released on The Life Erotic in 2011. Both of these sets are 6-7 years old.
They are posted as HD, where as the original ones were on Eve's site in 640x480 resolution. That could be where the problems with the video is coming from that the previous reviewer noticed.
So, check the model list and the available sets before thinking you're going to get content of a favorite model that you don't have. Overall, the site's not bad at all. They do have some really nice models I haven't seen before, but there was a letdown when I went to get some "new" Eve content only to find out it's up to 7 years old, repackaged as new and exclusive. This would be easier to look over if they didn't have a banner across the top of those sets that says "Exclusive".
I like the 720p, last time I was on In The Crack, I didn't download any of the 1080p because of file size. Though my monitor is 1920x1080, I've found that the 1280x720 videos look plenty good on it. There was a site, maybe Sapphic Erotica or one of the DDF sites that had an odd 960x580 or something like that, that I really liked as an overall combination since those did look plenty good and were half the size of the 1080p files.
I have really liked the content I have seen from Wicked and as someone who thinks Brazzers has really turned their network around, I find myself willing to give most any site they are involved with a try. It has a good price so I will probably join it anyway, but they really could benefit from a better tour. My main thing when considering joining a site I've never joined is to be able to see the models they have. Wicked Pictures tour shows maybe 12-16 models and tells how much content they have of those models, but when you click the model list to see the other models, it takes you to a join page instead of the model list.
I don't know if this is something they are maybe working on, but being able to see a full list of the models would have made me join already. Plus all their other sites have full tours, so I don't really understand why Wicked Pictures doesn't. One model in particular has become a "reason to join" but she may not be on here, Jynx Maze. And if it's not something they're working on, maybe a little nudge to consider it? Everything looks good with the site, content, price, would be a shame to possibly lose potential customers because of a lack of preview options to view available models.
When I first joined this network a few years ago it wasn't even listed as a network. It was three main sites, Oye Loca, Solo Interviews and Innocent High with one newer site, at the time, The Real Workout just starting to update. I rated that group of sites pretty high.
I really wasn't for sure if they could keep up their pace though. How many amateur Latina models can you keep finding in South America? No, seriously, send me and I'll let you know! I will write a review over the next week or two with more opinions in it, but thought I would post the overall number of scenes, how often sites are being updated and so on. There are new sites that have been added and now you can sign in on the Team Skeet homepage and search across the network from it.
The update schedule could be clearer, but I can see that they update M-F each day. Each day looks to be a different site updating and from looking at the content numbers, I would say some of these only update every other week, some may only be monthly. I can't say for sure since they don't put dates on their updates, but you do get 5 updates per week and all the current updates ate available in HD with picture and screencap zips too. They have a good thing going with Innocent High especially if you are into the schoolgirl fetish since all the sets in it are schoolgirl.
Worth joining just for Gigi Rivera in a schoolgirl outfit. Overall, the models are as good as any site. Besides getting a lot of the major stars, Oye Loca especially has amateur Latina models. Many of them you'll never see on another site even. Still very impressed overall and think it will score high as a network.
Bang Bros won't stop trying to improve their site long enough for my comments to be still valid.
Not that I'm complaining. They seem to have completed their move to a completely new format, maybe the one I had seen several months ago was a beta version?
The new format is even more of an improvement. Now when you click on a scene every single option is right there on that scene's page. There's no need to click to go to pictures or screencaps, it's all together. Maybe they have a programmer who is as OCDC as I am and decided to make everything neatly laid out. You can from the scene's page, download the full scene in different formats, these do vary some from scene to scene but the general formats are high (WMV), medium (MP4), small (MP4) and Mobile. The newer scenes add an HD option as well.
These are all accessed from a drop-down menu when you click download. Over from the movie download link is a pictures drop down box that lets you either view or download the pictures and screencaps.
Now leave it alone lol! It's perfect like Rebecca Linares butt.
Also I know it has been asked if they still have the 30 or more parts for individual download, the answer is yes, but you have to click on "chapters" to get to those.
They also now offer an add-on package. This is similar to Videobox having the "channels". This add-on they offer includes these sites, Dancing Bear, College Rules, My GF and CFNM Show. These sites do pretty good as standalone sites, but you can now add them into your membership for $24.95. I don't know any other way to get those 4 sites for this price, but it does look a really good deal if you are interested in those sites.
So the videos are now downloadable? I could have just read that wrong since I'm not that technologically advanced, but I wouldn't think someone would stream a video on ipod.
One other question, at the end you said this site is a bonus with Bang Bros. Did they merge them? I was on Bang Bros a few months ago and didn't notice Dancing Bear included in the membership.
And though I haven't been a member, I know there is one ad of a very cute, maybe bi-racial, maybe Latina girl getting a facial that has almost made me join the site just for that scene! Good review.
I picked, "Given the chance, absolutely". I didn't have the cleanest past when my wife married me and I know sometimes you have to do what you can, when younger, to make ends meet. I'm sure there are limits that would have to be stipulated. Like, I wouldn't marry the woman that did the 500 man gangbang. One like Marcellinha Moraes, I couldn't force myself to say no.
I noticed at the first of my current membership to ZTOD that they now have grouped their three studios, ZTOD, Black Ice and 3rd Movies, into one site. So now when you search for, lets say, Carmel Moore, it now shows the results from all 3 studios, instead of the old way of having to sign in on each studio's site and checking for each model. That's a big improvement in my opinion. One that I think I may have mentioned in a previous review while wondering just how hard it would be to integrate the three studios into one search engine.
Download speeds are still not that great, but I have noticed that if you download more than one file/scene/photo set at a time, it does effectively double your download speed.
Overall, I still think this is a premier DVD site. For one, you still have some exclusivity here since not all of their videos are available on the other DVD sites and two, they have a nice selection of pictures, which is rare for DVD sites. Not all scenes have pictures, but most of the models I have downloaded seem to have about a 50% ratio of scenes with photos.
Here are some numbers and it's the biggest reason I think they are one of the top 2-3 DVD sites.
6,373 scenes total
2,742 of those scenes are available in 1080p, full HD
4,059 zipped photo sets
I could be wrong, but I don't know of any of the DVD sites that have nearly 3,000 1080p scenes. And I'm almost positive that none have over 4,000 zipped photo sets too.
The only real complaints I have here, the tagging system is still not accurate. It is on some tags, but I searched lesbian MILF and 6 scenes showed up. While they have numerous DVDs that have lesbian MILF content. So I know it's more than 6.
Again, download speed is still frustrating with just one connection, but with more than one it downloads pretty fast.
Still prefer the niches here since they have a black site which is actually about half Hispanic, South American women, lots of Brazil models. And I think they cover the niches as good as anyone does with their own handjob series even. Pleased again with this membership, may even let it recur.
After probably a few years of debate on whether to join this site, I finally did, knowing it isn't updating and that the overall size of it is underwhelming.
But it's Lana Lopez.
So I get into the underwhelming amount of content and figure I will download the entire site in a day or two and be satisfied with the addition to my Lana collection since she doesn't have a ton of content out there.
After downloading 21 what I would call "small" zip files of photos, I got this comment, "Your daily download limit of zips has expired".
I have the exact numbers and can even link a screenshot of what I have downloaded to reach this limit.
21 zips, total size = 362 mb = "Your daily limit on download zips has been expired!"
It's probably not that big of a deal since this was one full page of her picture sets and there are only 4.5 pages, so I will go back tomorrow and download 21, then 21 the next day and so on, but what's the purpose of a download limit on what is an archive site? I haven't tried the videos yet, but those too may have a download limit on them as well. I will get back to a review later this week since I should have everything downloaded by then. Just thought I would throw this early warning in on the download limit on photo set zips.
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