Didn't feel like writing a full review, just wanted to note that this site is very disappointing. Though they do not have DRM anymore, and the ability to download a good portion of their magazine archive in pdf format is pretty interesting; the navigation is terrible (looking at the preview would lead you to believe the navigation is pretty good - but the navigation of the member area is very different and significantly worse). Also all their content is not available (yet?). I would not recommend joining this site, especially since a lot of their content is available elsewhere - videobox for example; unless you really want to download the magazine archive, which I guess might be worth it as the TBP price is pretty good.
Since several reviews seemed to complain of poor download speeds I just wanted to note that their download speeds have been excellent for me so far: 1.2 MB/sec.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
*Pretty large collection, about 450 photos sets (typically around 100 pics/set), 600 uncensored videos, 800 total videos
*The site also lists 360 or so dvds, but I believe these are where most of the videos listed come from.
*Beautiful japanese women
*Zip downloads of photos
*Decent quality photos, 1200x800, pretty good photography
*Good quality videos, 720x480 2000kbps was the best I saw
*Good download speeds, I got over 800 k/s
*Download managers work
Cons:
*Some videos are censored, like most Japanese AV sites the hottest models tend to be censored
*Photos are softcore, not usually censored, but photographed to only show bush
*Like all Japanese porn, some of the content is a little odd
*Poor navigation
Bottom Line:
I think this is a pretty good site, similar content-wise to JSexNetwork, although has more uncensored videos and has zips of all photo sets. I think JSexNetwork had slightly better photos, although they didn't have zips of most of their sets.
The site comes with four bonus sites:
*Puuko - an anime site, barely has any content
*analnippon - a video site with about 550 videos, mostly uncensored, obviously mostly anal - but often just with toys. Seems like a decent site, although anal isn't really my cup of tea so I didn't look around too much
*ocreampies - a video site with 600 uncensored videos mainly focused on cum related sex activities; creampie, bondage, bukkake mostly.
*bigtitstokyo - 250 videos big tits and large japanese women, looked uncensored but didn't look too much at this site
I am a big fan of asian ladies, and I think this site has a lot to offer. I find the quality of the photography on sites like these to be much more erotic than a lot of other (American/Euro) sites these days. I would recommend joining if you are a fan of Japanese porn. Just be aware, they always show the most attractive ladies in previews - and many of them only do softcore or edited content.
What is your available bandwidth? Make sure when you check your bandwidth it is a sustained download, the speakeasy bandwidth overestimates my bandwidth as comcast (my isp) gives pretty high initial bandwidth for the first 5-10Mb of a download, but it usually dies down after a while.
I have been using GetRight, it seems to work pretty good. I have usually gotten 10-20% better combined speed using a download manager rather than downloading straight through the browser - although I usually set it to download two files at a time.
Hope that helps, I'm sure if you search the forum you can find more opinions on various other DL managers...
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
*Great variety of content
*Attractive models of all ages, shapes, and sizes
*I believe all of their content is exlusive, although they have released some of it to dvd.
*Good classic videos and classic pictures. The quality wasn't great, but considering the era the content is from I found it pretty good (see below for tech. details)
*Decent download speeds
*Download managers work, although getting to the section to download a video scene can be a bit troublesome - see cons.
*Great for any fan of ladies with actual bush
Cons:
*Zips only downloadable if you are a "VIP" which requires a multiple month membership.
*Photo quality is typically pretty poor - 760x540 or so seems pretty typical.
*Video quality is mediocre and in .mov format (720x580 1700 kbps was the best I saw)
*Aweful, aweful navigation. Some of the worst I have seen. The "theatre" section is reminiscent of seventeenvideo's video section. One very small thumb on the right of a random scene in the video (not even always a good view of the model)
*They have an integrated movie player, so you have to load the scene in order to download it - similar to MrSkin, however no matter which browser I used I was unable to "seek" in the video. Maybe it is a Win 7 problem, dunno.
*They recycle content, as is mentioned in the comments section. I'm not sure how much of the "new" material is all that new. I sort of doubt any of it is. One of the videos I downloaded from that section is of a model that left the business in 2003.
Bottom Line:
*I know I have a lot of cons, but I think this site is actually pretty good. If you are a fan of Anna, Gigi, Vivian Schmitt or older "classic material" it might be worth joining for a month.
*It is unfortunate that you have to get a multi-month membership in order to download zips. And that navigation and video downloading is so painful. If you join, and want to get your money's worth, I would expect to spend a lot of time digging through the material. When I was looking for videos, I would play video games and look at the videos while waiting for the games to load, since I couldn't seek in the videos I had to wait sometimes a couple of minutes with the video running to find out who was in the scene.
*The site is mostly hardcore with some lesbian.
The best thing about the site, in my opinion, is the wide variety of content. They have content ranging from the old Amsterdam peep shows (1960s or 70s I think) all the way up to the 2000s.
*I must say some of the older material does make one a bit nervous about the models ages, even though the site says it is fully 2257 compliant, you sort of wonder how that can be proven for material produced in the 70s?
If they fixed some of the navagation problems, posted all their content instead of cylcing it, and got rid of the whole "VIP" membership thing I would probably give it a much higher score.
Just curious, but what do you mean by the download speed was bad - you say you were only able to download 5 scenes at a time, but didn't note the cumulative speed you acheived. When I was a member I got combined 1Mb/sec - which is pretty decent I think. You might want to think about getting a download manager, then you can just queue it all up.
I do agree with your cons, the site organization is pretty aweful, although I don't remember seeing any duplicate scenes.
Don't intend to sound combative, just curious. Take it easy.
How regularly are they updating these days? It was pretty spotty when I was a member a year or so ago. Sorry to hear the camera work is still shitty, its always a pitty when a scene with a really attractive lady is ruined by the cameraman.
Quality review, exotics. Just wanted to mention that there is still no HD video - in case anyone was wondering.
I might score the site a little lower as I find some of the models have overdone makeup (Like the Susana and Sonia Red sets), but that is more of a preference I suppose. You are definitely right that this site has some of the best, if not the best lesbian scenes around.
Oh and download managers work on this site, I always find that useful to know.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Some newer videos are much higher quality, the newer stuff is typically 720x480 (1800 kbps) with some stuff that is 1280x720 (5400 kbps)
Jordan has always been one of my favorites, although I don't find her quite as cute as I used to.
There are plenty of cute girls
Download speed is pretty good
My download manager worked for the photo sets, but not the video set. Could be a problem with my settings.
All exlusive content, I think. Including exlusive models.
Cons:
Very few updates, I believe they did a couple of newer scenes with Jordan in 2008, but the vast majority of content on Jordan's site is much older (2003 or earlier)
Expensive
None of the other Lightspeed Network sites appear to be updating anymore. The "New" sets of Nella and Belicia were clearly from the early 2000s.
Still cylcles sets as "new updates" when they clearly aren't. Supposedly this is to keep it fresh, but I find this dishonest. The sites are just floating on all the old content they collected years ago.
Navigation is terrible.
Photo quality is typically mediocre, especially the older sets. New stuff is 2000x1400, older stuff is 800x600.
Camerawork in both the photo and video sets is pretty crappy.
Bottom Line:
I think this was the first pay site I ever joined, and the women on the site are attractive. I had heard there were recent sets of Jordan added last year, so I figured it was worth a look. I was a bit dissappointed at the quantity of newer sets, however the quality is better.
Maybe worth joining for a month if you have never joined this site before and are into Tawnee Stone or Jordan Capri or several pretty popular euro models from the early aughts (Nella, Veronika J, Belicia) when they were younger.
Almost entirely softcore solo and "soft" lesbian, the euro models all have some toy action as well.
I probably would have given this site a lower score, but a lot of the sets I have from this site - even with the crappy quality - still rank amongst my favorites.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
01-26-1006:12pm (Update History) Reason: Revisited site after reading TBP review again
Pros:
Reasonable seeming network of bonus sites
Decent download speeds (when you can download)
Paycom, so easy to cancel
Cons:
Aweful site
Very few videos are downloadable, many say that you will be able to download soon, but this status never changes.
Basically all of the bonus sites are streaming only, which blows.
Way expensive given the amount of downloadable content.
I'd get into specifics on quality and content, but it probably isn't worth the time. Just don't join.
Bottom Line:
I'm curious how TBP gave this site a 70, the only thing I can think of is that the site has changed significantly since they did their review. Either way, this is a site you should not join unless they significantly upgrade the site. Most of the content looked old, I doubt it has updated in a long time.
I joined primarly because someone had posted in a forum that there was a good scene of evelyn/hanna on this site, however none was to be found. I don't think I have ever spent less time on a site I spent $30 on prior to giving up. I cancelled so soon after joining that I hadn't received any emails between the welcome email and the cancel email.
Update: I revisited the site after my review, just to verify everything I said and I did find the evelynn/hanna scene in one of the bonus sites, and it was actually downloadable. Given this, and that some of the bonus sites had okay downloadable content I raised my score from 50 to 59. Still a crappy site, though.
Is this true? there are several sites that state they have uncenssored av idols. jheat lists many that have done uncensored. just curious, what exactly classifies an av idol?
I had a membership to 18onlygirls before as part of the all access pass to youngporn, and you are right in your review that the vast majority of the content on 18only is the same as the stuff on youngporn. I will have to check out student sex, thanks for the advice.
The movie page is still listed as gallery numbers, there are like 500 galleries, so it is pretty annoying. Although, if you are at a model's page, there is a movie link you can hit that will show all the movies that model is in.
Most of the movies I saw only had one dynamic thumbnail associated with them (if you mouse over it will show various screencaps from the scene - usually only 3-5).
I am just assuming this is the case, when you go the join page using the PU discount, only 12 exclusive sites show up as bonus sites. If you go without using the PU discount there are 15 listed. Perhaps this is just a problem on their end, maybe you get all 15 with the discount. As I said, I paid full price, so I can't verify this is the case.
Good rant, and I agree with your frustrations. However, they do list which bonus sites are included with your membership when you go to the join page. If you didn't look closely you might not realize that they didn't list the other three "main" video sites as bonus sites with the special.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
01-28-1003:25pm (Update History) Reason: Deleted section about special price from PU, see comment and Khan's response
Pros:
Some very attractive young euro models
Video quality is excellent:
-1280x720 High (typically), 4064 kbps
-860x480 Medium (max, varies somewhat), 2000 kbps
The scenes are generally pretty well filmed and lit, although obviously not really a story if you are into that.
Zips of pictures
Good download speed, maxes out my 9 Mbps connection
Decent sized collection, 175 scenes on the main site, many more on bonus.
It appears that they currently update about every 5 days (add one scene).
Download managers work, I use GetRight
Good, old school login system. No codes to enter, cookie based so you stay logged in.
Cons:
Very poor organization, sometimes they use the same model and give her a different name (I saw 2 different names for Sasha Rose, neither of which were any of those used on eurobabeindex)
No real search function, and since the models and sets are poorly named, the only way to go through the site is one set at a time.
Picture quality is typically poor, several of the sets I downloaded were screencaps. Most I saw were typically the same resolution as the "High".
Video files are very large, most are 1 GB or so at high quality. Would not recommend if your connection is bad.
Poor set names, I prefer to have the models name in the video rather than high.wmv or some such thing.
Bottom Line:
I think this is a really good site, particularly if you take into account the bonus content. The content all appeared to be euro, so you wont find much english in the videos, and if you a large breast fan I would look elsewhere. A lot of the scenes are shownin the preview section, and those model body types are typical to the site and most of the bonus sites.
You get access to:
teenstarsonly (70 sets, HC), atmovs.com (148 sets, HC), teensexmovs (457 sets, HC), privateteenvideo (128 sets; HC, SC), hometoyteens (73 sets, solo), aboutgirlslove (60 sets, les), gap-n-gape (55 sets, anal), old-n-young (81 sets, HC), teens3some (57 sets), boys-love18 (97 sets, gay), soloteensgirls (259 sets, solo), drunkenteenorgies (31 sets, mostly 3-some),
theydidntknow (45 sets, fake voyeur), elpornolatino (10 sets, HC latin) plus a bunch of other pretty crappy non-exclusive sites.
Most of the main sites (teenstars, teensexmovs, atmovs, soloteengirls) appear to be still updating pretty regularly. The video quality of the bonus sites is typically worse, the best quality is about the same quality as medium on teensexmania. I didn't really look at the anal or gay sites cause that isn't really my thing.
Definitely worth joining if you are a fan of: Sasha Rose, Barbariska or Veronika J.
Bottom line: for the price ($30/month), it is definitely worth joining if you are a fan of any of the new young euro stars, but make sure you have a great connection and plent of HD space first!
Just thought i'd point out that it appears the special price does not include the same bonus sites. It does not appear to include teensexmovs.com, atmovs.com, or teenstarsonly.com. These are the three main bonus sites that have a decent amount of quality content. It is probably a better value to pay full price.
True, I also have a hard time giving sites scores, especially sites that have some good content that is hard to get at. I certainly am not one that believes my scores are written in stone.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
A very large selection of women
Good variety of content
Huge collection of models
Zipped files for photos
Pretty good photo quality, although some stuff isn't great (I assume older content)
OK download speeds
No DRM
The PU price isn't bad considering the quantity of content on the site
Very simple site design, which in my opinion is a good thing.
Cons:
Video quality is not great, most videos are split into parts
Model quality is pretty variable, but what do you expect with a site this large
Their search function, while interesting in theory doesn't work very well in practice. There are far too few criteria, and many of the sets don't have any criteria assigned to them.
Content is not all exclusive
My download manager did not work
Bottom Line:
This site is pretty good, although it does have its problems. It has so much material, it can be hard to sort through to find the stuff you might like. If you have a preference for high quality video, this is definitely not the site for you. It would be nice if the people at ATK merged all of their sites into one package as DDF and others have done recently.
If you are into well done photography and have the time to sort through the enormous amount content, I think this site is worth joining for a month. I'm sure most people would find plenty of content they like, however there is also a lot of content they wont.
I think a score in the 70s is an acceptable score for this site. like has been said there are a lot of attractive women to be found here in original content. while some content is outdated, it isn't a terrible site. i have certainly seen worse... like i said in the review, if you have time to dig through it, there is some good content to be found.
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