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Review
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Suze Randall
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91.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Suze is a legend
- Huge Photo Archieve
- Multiple Download Options
- Model Search & Index
- Good Customer Service
- Hot babes if glamor and/or fetish is your thing
- Sweet $4.77 full trial |
| Cons: |
- Some photo sets are limited (not showing full suite of photos)
- Some "pseudo porn" on the old sets
- You have to hunt for the trial offers
- Possibly some set rotation but does not appear to happen often
- No videos (based solely on the trial offer I signed up for) |
| Bottom Line: |
(Note: This is a review for Suze.net only, it does not cover suzevideo.net)
If you love huge quantities of quality photos of hot girls then this is the place for you. If you're not familiar with Suze think of Penthouse and Hustler as the standard I'm talking about.
I was at Suze.net a few months ago and just came back and what a difference. You now get 10 years of photos which means 500+ boy/girl sets, 300+ girl/girl sets, 1600+ centerfolds and hundreds of additional sets. The sets allow zip and download options of 800, 1024 and 1400 pixels. The sets prior to '03 generally lack the 1400 option. The sets generally had 50 - 100 pics each with older ones usually having less than 50.
A lot of this stuff I hadn't seen since the days when a 56k connection was high speed, Jill Kelly ruled and white guys with names like "Dale DaBoner" swung their stuff. Depsite the fact that many of the sets were older they didn't seem too dated given the glamor/fetish emphasis of the site.
My only dislikes were that the older sets had a lot of psuedo (aka nonpenetration porn) and that Suze keeps shifting her trial offers. I'm a cheap bastard and I eventually found a tgp link that got me into the $4.77 full trial as advertised by TBP. Otherwise, it's hit or miss on the posted trial amounts if you go to the site. Also, a few sets I had seen before lacked all the images available.
With a full trial of less than $10 you simply can't go wrong. Basically, this site rocks. |
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03-31-08 02:27pm
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Review
52
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Suze Video
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84.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Expanded libary now (100s of videos each in several different categories)
- Lots of attractive models
- No DRM
- Good customer support
- Good unrestricted trial offer (when available)
- Professional camera work |
| Cons: |
- Download speeds a little slow
- Video quality is average at best
- Navigation could be better |
| Bottom Line: |
I recently did a review of suze.net (photos site only) and recently reupped for the combined suze.net and suzevideo.net. I'm limiting my review here to the videos.
I'm primarily into photos and didn't spend a lot of time with the videos. You have several download options in WMV format. I did note that the speeds were a little slow and you don't get hi res, just average video quality at best. For the most part, the women are attractive and the scenes are hot so that is the trade off.
Navigation is a but of a bummer for both sites. When you have years worth of material but can only jump 2 pages at time you think they would make paging easier.
In a nutshell, the videos arent' bad, the most recent videos are best. However, Suze and company started in the photography era and the photos are probably the best part of the site. Maybe this will change. I would probably stick to the trial offer when they advertise for one -- in my other review I noted that you have to hunt for their trials but they are out there. |
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04-17-08 04:25pm
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Review
53
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Swank Pass
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71.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ 8 member network
+ $6, 3 day full access trial through TBP
+ Probably over 5000 photo sets (1020x680) with zip.
+ Thousands of video scenes
+ No DRM or download limits
+ Cancellation is easy (you know it's bad when this makes it as a "pro") |
| Cons: |
- Almost entirely nonexclusive content
- Search engine does not work. Finding anything of value is a royal pain.
- Quality is poor to average
- Majority of pic sets have fewer than 20 pics
- Majority of vids available only as clips
- Each site updates once a week. |
| Bottom Line: |
I really was hoping for more when I signed up, thinking that for $6 (I got off cheap) I would find some OK stuff. NOT!!!
Let's start by saying if you have ever been to a Deny DeFranco (DDF) site, Vivthomas, Karupspc, etc. you've seen all there is of value seeing here. All the content from the last few years appears to be shot by these major studios. It wouldn't be so bad but that the quality is worse (downgraded for this network) and often times you don't get the full scene at least for the pics. Some of the oldest material, mostly photos, I don't recognize so I can't say it's all nonexclusive.
Swank (and all the accompanying network sites) are originally magazine based. Like most magazine sites, they seem unable to make a decent leap to the web; unwilling to shake off what they do in print in hopes of actually having long term economic viability. Swank is apparently betting the farm that some fool will spend money on their mags in the future because they're not investing anything here.
You figure with a network the search would be a great way to bring things together. Nope. The search don't work. You can only browse by vids or pics or model directory. Oh yeah, a lot of sets don't have model names attached to them so good luck.
It gets worse because several of the sites have over a thousand pic sets. It gets worse again because some of these sites don't tell you on the pic preview pages how many pics are in a set so it's hunt and peck (some sets 4 pics, some 300: What's behind the curtain Monty?). It's just too exhausting to hunt and peck through the mounds of reheated content to find the occasional gem. While pic sets go back over a decade it's only the last few years of material where the sets have more than 20 pics per set. Guess what, some of the network sites won't even tell you what year the set was published ... more hunt and peck for gems ... more swearing. Oh yeah, some of the pics only max at 800 pixels despite the fact you click on the icon for large photos. Most of the content is solo, while there is more hc in the last year or two of updates.
The vids max out at 640x480. Some sites having nothing but clips available. Some are about evenly split between full length and clips. Again, all is nonexclusive and average to good quality. About the only good thing is that most of the vids appear to be hardcore.
About half the sites cater to big boobs. Otherwise the models are all over the radar from pornstars to amateurs. The solo model pics tend to be more glam oriented harkening to the magazine theme at work here. There is no content from the mags though besides the pics.
The only reason I can score this in the 70's is because they have a mountain of content and because they still have acceptable pic and video sizes. Don't waste your money even on the trial. Save your pennies and pay a little extra to see the original stuff in mint condition at the sites that sell Swank their material. |
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04-08-09 09:06pm
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Review
54
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Taste The Babes
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65.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- A good amount of photos with attractive russian girls (about 240 photo sets with about 25% being hardcore) (photo size is 1024 x 680) (about 70 to 120 pics per set)
- Good full access trial price. You get access to about 20 of their websites and dozens of standard 3rd party sites (see "bottom line" below for clarification on this)
- Access to over 240 sites with full monthly membership |
| Cons: |
- No zips on photos
- Only about 40 vids (only a couple of them hardcore) with no dowload options (mpeg only); size is only 320x240 (aka don't join this site for the video content)
- Nonexclusive content
- Some advertising on the site
- No search function
- Have to re-enter username/password for each site
- No new updates, material is simply recycled
- 3rd part bonus links (HerfirstATM, Desperateteens, etc.) do not work and all contain nonexclusive material you've probably seen before
- Monthly membership of $40 way too expensive for what you get (in addition to the 20 or so main sites you get additional nonexclusive 3rd party bonus sets, upwards of 250)
- No response to site support inquiries |
| Bottom Line: |
I posted a comment about this site a few months ago saying it was worth the trial (I was originally a member a few years ago). Having come back here on a trial all I can say now is "NYET"!
First, TBP is advertising a 3 day, $2 trial. When you go to the billing processor you find out the trial is 2 days for $4. You get access to some of their other sites but I kept random log in popups that kept freezing up my browser (not good).
This site has been around for years yet their oldest update dates to November '07. Bad sign. There was absolutely nothing new in hardcore since the last time I was there years ago. They just recycle their old content as "new updates". You get access to Tastethebabes which is a clone and most of the other exclusive sites are amateurish mature sites.
On the plus side, their stuff is nonexclusive but mostly shared among their sites and I have seen very little of it elsewhere. The girls are attractive russians so if you've not seen the stuff before and are willing to download each pic (no zips) then you might consider joining for the trial.
However, I can in no way justify joining this site for the monthly fee of $40. There are some sites exclusive to their network that have OK stuff but there's not enough quality and not enough quantity to justify the price. Even justifying the trial here is a stretch. Today's PU poll question asks if you've gotten sick of porn before. This site makes me have to answer "Yes". |
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07-31-08 04:23pm
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Review
55
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Tasty Pass
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77.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Great TBP full trial prices ($1 for 2 days, $12.50 for a month)
- 8 network sites focusing on eastern euro girls plus some standard 3rd party feeds
- Large photos (up to 1400 x 920)
- Videos are generally of good quality but only average sized (450 x 335 at the highest end)
- No DRM
- Content pretty much exclusive but I did find a couple of sets that I had seen elsewhere |
| Cons: |
- Content is mostly average and only about 4 of the network sites are worth looking at
- Have to re-enter username/password for each site
- No zips for photos
- Some advertising on some of the sites
- I had some issues with the billing company here but they were resolved
- Photo updates don't come very often and the sites update vids a few times per month |
| Bottom Line: |
Overall, this isn't a bad network. I joined on the cheapo $1 for 2 days trial (you have to join an individual site, not the network to get this deal). I will note that going this route will result in a $40 monthly membership charge if you don't cancel (obviously this is where they're looking to make money). You also need to login under the heading "full membership", not "trial membership" on the login page. Why? I have no clue but this is how it worked.
When I went to cancel through the processing company (crmedialtd.com) they did not recognize my member info. I used the on-line chat function and got cancelled but my member info never appeared on the billing processor's site so this might be a red flag. Also, be aware that if you sign up for the trial, there are other "prechecked" trials on the bottom of the signup page; a nasty practice in my book.
Overall, the content wasn't bad. I found that I liked tasty18and19, bridesonblacks, and tastydildos the best. There are some solo model sites as well but exoticsforme pretty much covered them in his review so I won't delve into them here. Teensonblacks and the mature site were worthless. You also get access to 9 3rd party vido feed sites which are nonexclusive obviously.
Tasty18and19.com was pretty good with 77 photo sets and 82 movie sets with about 1/3 being hardcore. All photos were large, had small watermarks and were generally good quality. The girls were all pretty good looking. You also get access on this site to 420 streaming full lenght dvd's (nonexclusive) and 36 amateur girl vids (only downloadable in 2 minute clips). This site has the most content and most frequent updates of the network.
Bridesonblacks has no relationship to wedding day hookups. It's just an interracial site. They had about 30 photo sets and 60 vids. The newest photos were 1400x930 but about 2/3 were 1020x700. The girls ranged from young to mature. The photosets seemed to have stopped updating and the vids rarely update. I will note that all the vids can now be downloaded as full scenes. This site definitely had more of an amateur feel in terms of quality of the material.
Overall the quality was decent but certainly not high definition. Almost all the material is exclusive and the women are generally pretty good looking. I pretty much saw all I needed to on the 2 day trial but if you like the content the no zips will slow you down so the monthly $12.50 membership might be the way to go. Either way you go there isn't a lot of updating so there is no need to stay longer.
I'm scoring this a 77 because while the quality is decent there is not a ton of it and the updates don't come all that often on most sites. The billing processor problem/"gotcha" also counted against them here. It's a decent network but not the cream of the crop. |
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09-19-08 05:56pm
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Review
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Team Skeet
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80.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Over 1800 hundred scenes of mostly attractive younger gals getting their sexy on across a 20 site network.
+ No DRM or download limits.
+ Bills through Epoch, no prechecked cross sales.
+ Updates about 5 times a week.
+ Mostly exclusive content (LustHD and Rubateen sites are just 18xgirls / teenmegaworld content)
+ Good quality vids with good download speeds and multiple download options.
+ Newer vids have tag jumps where you can jump to a specific sex act while streaming. Video streaming works well and has several settings.
+ Navigation is basic but it works well. |
| Cons: |
- The listed TBP price of $9.87 doesn't apply, monthly price is about $18.
- Ads, ads, ads, ads. Ads everywhere.
- Not a picture site, max resolution is 1600x1000 and only goes back a few years.
- Production quality is just average and drops down to amateur on some sites.
- All vids pretty much labelled "HD" although the older content isn't.
- Some sites are dead or update sporadically. Most update 1 to 2 times a month.
- Nothing terribly unique or exciting about the content overall. A generic porn hub. |
| Bottom Line: |
You know you're getting old when I know the last time I visited a site now included in this network PU didn't exist and I was in the last days of a 56k connection. A bit of nostalgia got a hold of me and I decided to take a look again and was pretty much left feeling "meh".
This is a 20 site network with Innocenthigh and Xtrasmall being the two best sites. Perhaps by coincidence these two sites have most of the major porn stars on them too. The network feature mostly US porn stars and a mix of amateur or very short lived porn starlets and the main focus is on hardcore porn (really no anal for those so inclined). Here's the skinny:
PICS: Like I said, this isn't a pic network. Pics max at 1000x1600 but by mid 2013, drop to 1050x750. With sporadic updates, it doesn't take long before you've hit the low end on most sites. Lots of action from vids missing on pics and cropping leaves something to be desired. Several sites may only have a few dozen pics. Scenes that do have lots of pics mostly feature the preshoot tease pics. Not a lot to see here.
VIDS: All sorts of download options (WMV, MP4, HD and standard resolution) as well as different levels for in browser streaming. Download speeds were consistently good (about 3 MB/sec for me). The stream function worked well and I like the tag jump function. You get HD starts about late 2010, before that you have the old standard sized vids. Vids also have screencaps.
NAV: Navigation, although basic, works pretty well. No dead links, everything worked. Tags as usual can be a bit spotty but seem pretty consistent here. The best way to search is by site or by model. Only limited model info provided.
OVERALL: For whatever reason, I wasn't terribly impressed with the site overall. I don't use a DL manager and I was still able to look at and download everything I wanted in about 6 - 8 hours.
A very consistent theme is felt given that a lot of models appear on many of the sites. The POV sites, Teensdoporn and Shesnew sites all had an amateur level feel to them (low production value, spotty lighting and single cam, usually operated by the man). Even the more interesting sites had average production value and some questionable camera angles. There's nothing terrible about the site but, then again, nothing great either.
I see that Maggie just finished a review here giving the network a score of 90. That is definitely too high of score for what you get in comparison to other hardcore sites at that level. In my opinion it's decent network so that's what my score reflects. |
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04-28-15 09:16pm
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Review
57
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Teen Dreams
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85.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Freakin' huge amount of content
+ Good $20 TBP monthly membership
+ 30 updates per week (6 per day, M - F)
+ Good customer interaction with model ratings, personal favorites section, set/scene comments and a forum
+ No DRM
+ Supports download managers
+ Large photos (newest at 2500x1660) and all sets have zips and slideshow option and many have no or very small watermarks
+ Newer material appears to be mostly exclusive
+ Full tour available before joining |
| Cons: |
- Search function leaves a real nasty after taste
- More of a pic site than a video site
- Model names are strange here and model info is few and far between
- Quality varies
- "Teen" concept loosely defined, lots of 21 to 25 year olds.
- Older material is mostly nonexclusive |
| Bottom Line: |
I had high hopes when I joined this baby but was only moderately entertained: sort of like dating someone who you know ain't quite right but running with it anyways just for the sex ;) This site features a lot of Euro babes with the emphasis on photography.
Photos: 1280 HC sets, 1600 lez, 6000 solo and a smattering of other categories. As mentioned the newest stuff clocks in at 1660x2500 with older stuff at 2000x1300 or 1020x715 and a few 800x600. All have zip and many have a slideshow feature. Be wary if you're joining for the HC. 75% of this is leased content added a few years ago that's on all the megasites as is some newer stuff. Most of the newer solo stuff is exclusive but, again, a lot of the stuff past a couple of years ago is not. Most sets have 100 to 200 pics; oldest sets are smaller.
Vids = 560 HC, 180 Lez, and 800 solo. You get only get a couple of vid updates a week. Newest stuff is 720x480 on WMV while older is 350x240. Stream rates were only OK. Like the pics, you've probably seen the older stuff around.
My biggest beef is with the search function. There is 9 function search engine so it looks promising. However, even when limiting yourself to 1 or 2 of options you either get a couple of results or a ton of results. The only real way to find out what's there is to use the model directory or search by lez, HC or solo categories. With this much content that spells "p-a-i-n".
The pain goes deeper when you look at the categories. They use a magazine cover to show the girl but often times it's the same used for every shoot the girl does. You don't know what the content of the shoot is unless you dig into it.
There is very little if any info on most of the models. A lot of models, even known ones, somehow get stuck with different names so it's hard to find exactly what you're looking for.
Most of the emphasis here is on the youngish gals doing photo solo sets. For the most part, they were only OK. Not much eroticism or tease factor here. Part of this is due to the fact that they get a lot of their stuff from outside sources. This factor also explains why the quality can vary from set to set. Some are great, others are poorly cropped and shot.
The girls are generally fairly attractive. Not top shelf but not off the street either. Thankfully there was not a lot of silicon here, at least in the solo content and newer HC stuff.
This site gets an 85 for sheer volume, good pic sizes and good newer vids. You also get acccess to the Vivthomas bonus site. Not as big as his "real" site but not bad. It's definitely one of the better bonus sites you can get. It loses ground on it's half ass search function, varying quality and the fact that the older stuff has been around the block a few times.
If you like solo girls and pics this is a pretty good place for the value; just plan on spending some time digging through it all. |
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02-24-09 09:33pm
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Review
58
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Teen Pink Videos
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80.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Excellent $1, 3 day full access trial through TBP
+ Lots of hot euro cuties (about 200 models and 1500 scenes split about evenly between pics and vids)
+ Daily updates
+ No DRM or DL limits
+ Pics OK at 1180x790 with some sets being larger sized and all have zips
+ Interesting function where you can change the size of the thumbnail in the photo galleries. A nice option instead of the usual tiny stuff.
+ Vids are of good quality |
| Cons: |
- Cross sales on signup page
- Navigation is a bit of a pain
- No model info and no search engine
- Mostly nonexclusive material
- Vids can be tracked via date of posting, pics cannot (a pain if you decide to go back in the future)
- The coding of the webpages is such that when you go to a page it has to load all at once, not gradually. If you have slower internet speeds it can take a while to load some pages leaving nothing but a blank screen for a while.
- Plain website design
- Problems with consistent pic sizes |
| Bottom Line: |
This is a site run by the people who own Twistys but it's not part of the network. Not much of the content here is on the Twistys network so that was a good start. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised for what you get for a buck.
Pics: About 750 photo sets, all with zip. The pics are of good quality with good lighting and cropping and focus even on the closeups. Fairly professional overall. The content is pretty evenly split between hardcore and lez/softcore. Smallish watermark is tolerable. Most girls have multiple sets which is good. Most sets come in with 120 to 200 pics. One problem with a number of sets was that, for example, the portrait shots were 1180 x 790 while all the landscapes were 900x600. Same scene, same shots, what's up with that?
Vids: About 750 vid sets, downloadable in mpeg or wmv or as a stream in full video mode or scenes. WMV files top out at 720x480 with decent download speeds. Again, a good even mix of h/c and softcore and lez. The quality is good and the scenes are well shot and mostly professional in quality. You can look at the screencaps from the scenes to see what you're getting. Not all vid scenes have accompanying pic sets but most do.
Like I mentioned navigation needs some work. The only way to really find what you want is through the model directory since there's no search engine. The video page is good and easy to get around. The pic sets only allow you to go forward and back one page at a time. For pic sets, you only get one thumbnail showing the set so you sometimes have to dig into it to find out what the set contains. With the vidcaps, you can usually figure what the vid contains.
A lot of this stuff is nonexclusive and has been around a while (e.g. - a young Eufrat and Anita Keys are featured here). So, even the "new" upates were most likely shot quite a while ago. However, there was still a lot I hadn't seen before or saw in a "lesser" version elsewhere so I was pretty happy with the selection. Some may be exclusive but the site advertises exclusive content which it certainly lacks.
If you're really into the younger euro porn thing and you don't have a hard drive full of the stuff you certainly can't go wrong with the trial price. I could have stayed longer than the trial but the 3 days let me get most of what I wanted. If you've been around the euro teeny block a few times then a lot of the content will be old hat and you'd be better off spending your money elsewhere. |
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06-18-09 03:21pm
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Review
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Thai Chix
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74.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ 100's of vids and 100k photos
+ Many photos come in at 1500x1200 and all files have zip
+ No DRM
+ Good customer service
+ 3 day full access trial for $6 through TBP
+ Updates daily
+ No watermarks (99% of the time) |
| Cons: |
- Nonexclusive content
- Mostly American asians, no Urabon and few "asian" women
- Most vids come in clips
- Many HC photo sets are incomplete
- Quality varies
- Navigation on a site this big needs work |
| Bottom Line: |
Overall, I would have to say there is nothing special about this site. As the content is nonexclusive the quality of the photos and vids can vary. Like I noted, it's mostly American porn here although it gets more amateur and asian in the solo girl sections. Here's how it breaks down:
PHOTOS: 360 HC, 130 Lesbian and 1000 solo sets all of which have zips. About half the photos come in at 1500x1200 and most of the rest come in at full screen (1020). Some of the photos are from screen caps so they can be grainy or blurry but most are pretty good but certainly not high def. A lot of the HC sets are incomplete and out of order or feature bj's only so there wasn't a lot to pick from there. A lot of the sets seemed the same to me after a while.
VIDEOS: There are 3rd party links to full length dvd's and videos. Most of the vids are in their "in house" section. Here, the majority can only be download in clips. Most come sized in 320x240 for wmv and 640x480 for mpeg. It streamed for me at about 400 kps. The quality is mostly good but can vary. There are no screen caps.
Navigation is OK and there is some advertising on the site. They have a search function that is just OK (can't search by scene content or body type) and limited model information. Customer support is good and it bills through ccbill.
While the site updates daily most of the updates are softcore. You get one vid and one photo set a day it looks like. HC and lesbian sets/scenes update infrequently.
If you've had limited exposure to asian porn the site is decent. If you're a fan of asian porn there probably isn't much here you haven't seen before or would want to keep. I got everything I wanted within the 3 days so I couldn't see staying for month.
Overall, average site, average score. Book it Dan-o. |
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10-31-08 05:23pm
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Review
60
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The Hardcore Network
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74.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Decent 2 day, $5 full access trial through TBP
+ Mostly exclusive material (more than 50% I'd say)
+ No DRM
+ 5 sites have HD video
+ 13 sites to choose from
+ Network wide search function for girls, acts, etc. |
| Cons: |
- Primarily a video site, although they advertise pics they generally aren't that good
- Quality varies from excellent to total crap
- Prechecked membership boxes on signup form
- Some of the usual 3rd party bonus sites but can't view the content (lure to sign you up only)
- Pics have no zips and all pics for the set appear on one page and individual pics come up in separate window
- Sporadic updates |
| Bottom Line: |
This is a network that doesn't quite know where it's going. It has some more mainstream sites but then throws in some more extreme sites. The network advertises pictures but for the most part the quality is average at best while sizes go from 1600x1200 to useless small screencaps. The vids are the most consistent in quality and quantity with the standard being 640x480 wmv with decent download speeds and some HD sites tossed in.
The following are the sites I'd score in the 70's:
Iloveyouceleste; Iloveyoumya; Iloveyoumelanie; Iloveyoumadison. All sites have about 32 vids and 22 pic sets (1000x720). The vids go HD here (up to 1440x1080). All the girls are relatively attractive and they do solo, HC, toys and lesbo. The girls often appear in each other's sites so there is a lot of overlap. Each also has a pointless and brainless diary.
Attackmyass. Has pics, 35 sets, up to 1500x1000 but most are 1000x750). Vids, about 80, are average. Mostly outside content with known pornstars.
Pleasebegentle. Younger pornstar sex with 66 vids and only a couple of photosets. Vids are average but good quality.
Chopsticksluts. Nonoriginal asian porn with average quality at best.
The following, in my opinion, fall at or below the "Mendoza Line" score of 70:
Pornstarsolos: 77 average sized vids and 60 pic sets (most 800x1200). Nothing original here and some photo sets are just partials.
Asssmoothie: This I don't quite get. You see girl, girl strips, girl fires up the blender, girl lays on floor and dumps goo in her booty, girl pushes goo out the tail pipe and then it goes down the hatch. Breakfast of champions, mmmm. This is the same setup for virtually every set; all 150 vids and 52 pic sets. They have HD vids here which is a waste because if you've seen one you've seen 'em all.
Swirliegirls: High school nerd abuse? Not really, just another site I don't get. Every scene (25 pic and 25 vid which are OK) has a girl in a toilet doing some violent bj stuff and then getting her head flushed. Tries to be brutal but most of it isn't. Again, everything is the same in every scene.
Herlastfuck: This is like a slow motion car wreck, you know it's going to hurt but you just have to peek. The vids are average at best and the pics are worthless. It's all seriously ancient eastern euro women looking for some rubles after the Soviet Union collapsed and their pensions disappeared. I couldn't bring myself to wach the 86 yr old woman give a bj. Fat and nasty is the theme here.
There are a few more sites here which, again, have varying quality and pretty standard content and rate high 60's or low 70's but they don't merit any real discussion. With such a range of quality, only OK photos, and sporadic updates I couldn't score this site in the 80's. Given that so much is average, average be the score.
I did the 2 day trial and that was more than enough to take what I wanted and get out. Don't bother with the month here |
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11-05-08 05:00pm
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Twistys
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85.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Tons of babes and content
+ 3 photo set and 2 vid updates daily
+ Pic sizes up to 3000 pixels
+ Vids from 2009 onward go up to 1280x720
+ High quality search and model directory
+ No download limits or DRM
+ Good 2 day full access trial for $2.44 through the bonus sites
+ 6 other sites offered of which only 3 have original content
+ Professional, high quality content
+ One of the better forums I've seen for members
+ Smallish or nonexistent watermarks
+ Good customer service |
| Cons: |
- Download speeds were a bit slow for me but it may just be a prolem on my end.
- Vids before 2009 mostly max out at 480x360
- Most of the pic sets clock in at 1020 x 720 or smaller
- Some advertising on the site but not terrible
- The 3k pixel photos only available in zip format
- A lot of nonexclusive content |
| Bottom Line: |
I was last here in '08 when I dished out an 81. Glad to see things have improved although, as we know, there's always room for improvement.
Pictures: About 9500 solo sets, 1350 HC sets and 880 lez sets. As noted, in '09 Twisty's started putting out 3000 pixel pictures but only in the zip sets. Why Shap? Especially since other sites go this big as an option and sometimes we just want to pluck the good stuff as opposed to downloading an 80mb file only to toss most of it later. Most sets have about 100 pics. Pics are professional and generally very good in terms of quality and lighting with some airbrushing, mostly on the solo sets. All sets have a zip function. Watermark is small, posting dates are included, and slideshow option is available (all definitely welcomed). About the only real negative is that most of the pics are 1020 or smaller but this is somewhat expected given the extensive history of content available.
Videos: About 1900 solo scenes, 950 HC scenes and 250 lez scenes available. As noted, the new stuff clocks in at 1280 sized and is very impressive in terms of quality. However, most of the stuff is 480x360. Once you go back more than about 18 months, you don't even get vid caps to see what the scenes contain (pain in the but). The oldest vids only come in clips, not full length scene. DL's available in WMV, MOV or pointless "phone" sized.
The model directory is excellent although, like most sites, sometimes models mysteriously pick up new names. The search has numerous variations available to sift through the content. Mostly, the tags seem pretty thorough but they are a bit weak on the oldest content in my opinion.
While they do have some exclusive content, most of the stuff is nonexclusive and can be found at other megasite / pornstar sites. Not necessarily bad, especially considering the trial price, but quality is sometimes downgraded in my comparisons to other sites when it comes to pic size, pic count per set, and video DL options.
The forum seems to be inhabited by people who are usually successful in getting their point across and they have lots of useful topics there. One of the better forums I've seen in pornland (excluding PU naturally).
I'm giving my score of 85 based solely on the Twistys content. Bump it up to about an 87 or 88 when you factor in the other sites (Annette Dawn, Bluefantasies and Naughtystaff are the only ones worth visiting).
Basically, you're not getting the cream of the crop of here in terms of quality or exclusivity. However, you are getting a ton of pretty good to very good content that keeps updating regularly and can keep you occupied for a while. This site should be rocking in a few more years when they get a lot more HD vids and if they bump the pic sizes to 3000 pixels outside of the zip only function. |
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01-26-10 07:49pm
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Twistys
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81.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- 10,000+ photo sets with about 1200 hardcore and all have zip function. Newest material is 1600x1070, most is 1280x850 and a few are 800x600.
- 2250 vids with about 1000 hardcore with good download speeds in QT and WMV, most come in 640x480 size
- No DRM
- Small watermarks
- Good trial / discount price through TBP (currently you can join at a 2 day trial for $2.26 through Blue Fantasies and other Twisty's sites)
- Access to about 6 sites with membership
- Very good search function
- Several updates every day |
| Cons: |
- Mostly non exclusive material
- Updates dont' keep up with other "mega" sites (see "bottom line" for discussion)
- Most of the other sites available are Twisty's clones with the exception of Blue Fantasies, Naughtystaff and Annette Dawn
- Pics only come in one size |
| Bottom Line: |
I've been a member at Twisty's in the past and I rejoined on a two day trial membership through Bluefantasies.
There is a ton of content here so if you're rather newish to the porn surfing world you're going to find a lot to like. The content is mostly centered around pornstars in professional style shoots with some amateurish stuff tossed in. However, if you've been around a while you'll recognize most of the sets. There's a lot of material from Vivthomas and pretty much the same material as the Sexy-babes / Dreambabes sites and a few other mega sites. It's been about a year since I was a member at a mega site and quite honestly I only found about 40 "new to me" hardcore sets -- this includes their bonus sites. A lot of their new updates is stuff that other sites seem to have had for a while now.
I will give them Kudos for having a very good search function and model directory. Also I liked the fact that they have upgraded a lot of their older photo sets from 800x600 (which they used to be) to roughly 1020 by 720 or larger now.
The bonus sights, as mentioned, are almost all clones.
Standing on it's own, I'm giving Twisty's a score of 81. If I included bonus sites I'd bump the score up a couple of points more. While the content is good it is nonexclusive and other mega sites do it better with more up to date content. If you're newish to the porn surfing scene then it is well worth checking out; just don't plan to go back anytime soon |
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07-25-08 05:07pm
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Twistys Network
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80.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Thousands of pic sets and vids to tempt you.
+ Daily updates (hardcore only updates 1-2 times a week)
+ Good sized pics (2000x3000), usually 100+ pics per set and come with zips.
+ Good pricing deal at $10 a month through TBP
+ Generally attractive models and mostly known porn stars.
+ Updates are date stamped.
+ Mostly original content but what they do filters out to other sites pretty quickly.
+ Stream rates were good on all downloads with little variation between high and low traffic
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+ No DRM and no d/l limits.
+ Multiple download options for pics and vids including mobile.
+ Variety of scene options (solo, lez, and hardcore). |
| Cons: |
- Navigation, search and layout are a mess.
- Prechecked cross sales on signup and ads when you log in and in the site itself.
- Upsell purchase required to see all of the Twistys content from old.
- HD vids only come in at 720p but still look good.
- Technical problems across the board, just like everyone else who has reviewed this site the last few years (explained below).
- Zips don't work on pic sets older than 2010.
- No vid and/or pic set icons for older scenes.
- Pretty generic in terms of overall scene interest and photography.
- Problem with model names, notably giving "new" names to established Euro girls. |
| Bottom Line: |
For years Twistys (now the Twistysnetwork) was the old reliable. If you wanted a bunch of porn for a reasonable price that's what you got. Nothing flashy or niche based, just good old fashioned naughty bits in a professional package. This used to a standby site for me but with the new network design, new owners and array of issues this one is getting shoved on the back burner. Here's the breakdown:
PICS: Good pic sizes and lots of variety but that's where it ends. For their hardcore, they have one primary photographer so you pretty much see the same type of sex set after set after set. Many of the hardcore sets are heavily cropped so if you like full body shots then this ain't your site. The solo shots are better but they are pretty generic in character. Some problems with photographer using auto focus with too narrow of a focus field (pics get slightly blurry just outside of the central focus dot - probably because the pics are just HD screen grabs from the video shoot and the photographer can't figure out how to change his settings).
VIDS: HD maxes out at 720p but it was good quality and no issue to me. You get in browser playback but it was incredibly choppy - I had to go to the download option and watch there. I lost the ability to hear sound after watching 6 - 8 vids and had to exit the site and re-enter to fix it (sound just fine when downloading though). I had no problems downloading vids like some other recent reviewers noted. Vids usualy 15 - 30 minutes (shorter on the solo, longer on the hardcore).
NAV: This is the part that chapped my ass. The site underwent a major overhaul and like most software upgrades, you often leave some functionality behind. Here it was A LOT of functionality. The site is all flash based but there is no in site flash navigation. If you open a set on page 5 and use your "back" button you go back to page 1 every time. You have to right click and open every scene in a new window or else lose your place. Since you can only move up to two pages at a time you need be careful on a site this sized.
Advanced search is pointless since it relies on tags and the tagging is inconsistent. Model directory seems complete but names on Euro girls are sometimes different.
You lose the ability to download zips before 2010. Also, around 2010 you lose the set / scene icons (all it says is "no pic available") and those that do exist aren't representative of the content or even the model.
You need to upgrade to see all the older / oldest content they have.
Most of these sites (7 in all) simply update across the board with most of the content. This isn't new but it is a pain since if you have to do a lot of digging if you want to see as much as possible (each scene says which site it was updated to but this isn't reliable or consistent).
Overall, this is a decent glam oriented site. However, it could easily be more and better but simply chooses not to be. They've obviously cut their budget and it shows. So, for $10 you can't really go wrong but don't expect to be wowed. |
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01-09-15 01:53pm
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Viv Thomas
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82.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Great $10, 7 day full access trial through TBP
+ Full access preview before joining (can't view individual sets but can view all model and category content)
+ Very professional production
+ 17 categories of photoshoots, all sets have zips
+ No DRM
+ Top quality models for the most part |
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- Updates only every other day
- Videos are in short clips only
- You've probably already seen the older content
- Pics max out at 1280 pixels
- Limited model info |
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Vivthomas is a top notch photographer who's stuff you've probably already seen on sites like Teendreams, ATKgalleria, and others. His focus on Euro glam porn. This is my second time joining and I only hopped on for the trial.
For those interested in vids, forget this site and consider Vivthomasvideo. All you get are short clips and access to some streaming vids. I didn't really mess around with this but I note that the clips played at 640x480 in wmv. Most of this stuff is only a few minutes long.
The pics are the real reason to go here. He does a very professional job in terms of production value and overall quality. Very few blurry shots or bad lighting. He also uses a variety of sets so it's not overly reptitive. Most sets have fewer than 100 pics which I tend to like since you don't get 10 shots of the same thing. There is a small watermark in the cornor of the pics.
The hardcore was good but it doesn't update that often. Viv is probably at his best when shooting solo models. He does a good job of shooting lingerie and seems to bring out some sexiness in the models which a lot of sites seem to lack. There's 17 categories to choose from and you get about 650 models and there's about 165k pics. Some models have bios and bits about them but most don't have anything. The model directory appears to be complete and accurate.
There is also a forum which has a fair amount of activity and you can buy his dvds from the site too.
I'm only scoring this site an 82 because so much of his older content is leased out that I've seen most of it before. The new stuff is exclusive but it too will eventually start cropping up elsewhere. I certainly had no problem getting what I wanted during the trial period and if you've been around porn for a while you shouldn't have any problem getting by on a trial either.
I'm also scoring the site an 82 because of the lack of video content. Granted, he has a video site which costs more but I think I'd rather see him merge the two sites together and charge a bit more to get all the content.
My last reason for the score is that his photos sometimes appear in larger sizes on other sites. I just joined Teendreams and their Vivthomas pics are much larger. You get a little graininess but it's minimal. So all I have to say is "Viv, grow 'em bigger!".
So, if you like pics, like hot euro babes and want a cheap distraction, then I suggest checking it out. |
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02-24-09 08:58pm
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Wicked Pictures
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73.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+ Large amount of all hardcore content (700+ DVD's with about 4200 total scenes).
+ Updates several times a week, averages about once a day.
+ Mostly exclusive content (some teenmegaworld content being added now).
+ Get access to their parody vids.
+ Mostly professional production values.
+ Good TBP price of $15 month |
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- Navigation, tags, search and model directory all suck.
- Almost all scenes use condoms if that's an issue for you.
- Prechecked cross sale on signup, lots of advertising within the site itself. Site has upsells too.
- Live shows are dead (but you can buy old ones).
- Not really a picture site (almost all scenes have pics with zips though).
- Poor file labelling (just numbers)
- Download speeds are all over the place (I ranged from 1-2 mb/sec to about 100 kb/sec)
- Lots and lots of very generic porn that gets old fast with a lot of the same contract girls.
- Lighting can be really bad at times.
- Oldest vids are very low quality and I couldn't get many to play. Reliable scenes only go back to about '93/94 but are, understandably, quite low res.
- Lots of music in the vids that continue up to only a few years ago.
- You don't necessarily get all the new Wicked updates, new updates can be content that was released years ago (I think you you have to upgrade to get the hot "new" stuff). |
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I was debating whether to even review this one but the lack of recent reviews sort of made me buckle down with a few drinks and pound this crap out. In short, I was a member here back when the pyramids were being built and thought it was a decent site. However, my return was met with a completely overhauled site that left me scoring it a 73 only for the shear volume of content. Here goes nothing:
PICS: The newest scenes have awesome sized pics (2500x1600) but the pic counts are very low. It's only in 2013 and earlier that you get any decent number of pics (pics end in 2006). However, by late 2011 the pic sizes drop to 800x500 which is pointless by today's standards unless you like looking at pics on your phone. The pics all have large watermarks too.
VIDS: The newest vids are good sized and look good. However, by late 2011 the quality quickly drops and you get a lot of psuedo HD stuff (540 HD) that it just OK looking. Music starts appearing in the middle of the action as well. Had some issues with vids being way too dark. Lots of closeup shots and a lot of single camera viewpoint shots (guys, at least move the camera around once in a while).
NAV: This part really sucks. You got 84 pages of scenes that come up and you can only jump 2 pages at a time (note, just type in the page you want in the url address to avoid this). The scenes are poorly tagged, too generically tagged to be useful or not tagged at all. The model directory is not complete and often misses the group scenes. Model directory can't be searched alphabetically, only searchable by "likes" and "recently added". You get the point yet?
Overall, I can't recommend this site unless you got the royal hots for some of their contract stars and want to complete your collection. Too much "blah" generic action that, if you couldn't see the naughty bits, would be featured on late night HBO. Lots of hot girls but the action and way it's shot with lots of closeups and fixed cameras just dulled my brain. Basically, this site seems more like a dumping ground for Wicked as opposed to an online flagship effort. |
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10-08-15 12:47pm
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X Empire
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87.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Currently $15 a month through TBP.
+ Access to HardX, DarkX, LesbianX and EroticaX sites (785 vids and 1525 pic sets across all the sites).
+ Attractive, mostly American pornstarlets (teens to 20's mostly).
+ A variety of sex and setups. You probably won't get too bored.
+ Professional staging and production values.
+ 7 video download options – from 1080 down to 160 (no 4k).
+ All pics 1920x1280 at 96 dpi.
+ Good download speeds for me (3-5 mb/sec). No download limits.
+ Good looking sleek site design.
+ Model directory appears complete.
+ Options for leaving comments and rating scenes.
+ Exclusive content with daily updates. |
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- Prechecked cross sale on signup.
- Uses a credit card processor my card company didn't like.
- Photo sets and videos are found in separate categories and most don't cross link. Photo set file names are just numbers.
- Until about May of 2017, photo sets were split into 2 separate updates: Glam shots and the Sex scene.
- Basically no model information.
- A fair amount of tatoos but not too bad on the amount of implants.
- Not all scenes have pics and vids.
- Navigation needs some work. |
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I'd been thinking about joining one of these sites recently so when I saw that they had finally put all of them under one roof for $15 a month I jumped on it. As stated, you get access to all four of the “X” sites. For those not in the know, here's a brief autopsy on what each site gives you:
DarkX: 198 pic sets, 102 vids. All hardcore site featuring mostly white girls with the usual overhung black talent. A lot of anal and some dp here. For whatever reason, the girls featured here tend to be a bit curvier than the other sites (most models appear on most of these sites).
HardX: 880 pic sets, 450 vids. All hardcore with a mix of everything going on. Probably a bit more hardcore than a run of the mill hardcore site but not much extreme. Again, a fair amount of anal. Also, a fair number of BTS vids.
EroticaX: 406 pic sets, 210 vids. All hardcore with the “heartcore” or couples vibe going on. I liked in that the couples seem to put more effort into the scenes here than most heartcore sites. Very little anal and no dp action.
LesbianX: 40 pic sets, 22 vids. Self explanatory.
PICS: All photo's come in at 1920x1280 (or vice-a-versa for portrait) at 96 dpi and all photo sets have zips although the zip file names are just a number. The photo's are almost all shot very well with limited pixelation and generally good focus. When viewing in browser I wish they would put all the pics on a single page, some sets can have 15 pages of pics. Until you get to late 2015 / early 2016 the number of photos tend to be skimpy (20-40 usually). After that the pic count jumps up to about 100-200 per set or more. I wish they would have had more full body shots on the sex scenes than they did. As usual, the videos have more content than the pics but not by much.
My biggest beef with the pics is that until a few months ago the “Glam” shots are separate from the sex scenes which is unnecessary in my book. Also, the photo sets are separated from the videos and most sets are not cross linked so you have to search through the pics separately. Lastly, the photo sets are not date stamped but the videos are – I'm guessing this is a “new site” snafu.
VIDS: I had very good download speeds for me. I liked the 7 download options (1080 down to 160). I found myself downloading a lot of 540p vids which look just as good as most 720p vids you see on other sites. The vids are all well shot and lit with high production values. They do have good file names for the downloads on the vids. You can watch the vids in browser (7 stream rate options) which is fast and pretty smooth with minimal buffer time when jumping around. There is preview popup icon on the the time bar when streaming which worked pretty well for all but the oldest vids.
NAV: The site looks good and has a sleek feel. You can view content by each site or overall (all pics or all vids) but you do run into some pagination issues on the latter. You can also watch dvd's although all it does is show which scenes are in a particular dvd. There are tags on the scenes but as usual I found them to be too generic to do a meaningful search. There is no model info but there is room for rating scenes and leaving comments. The biggest bugaboo here is the separate photo and video sections. I found it easiest to look things through going site by site.
This site bills through chargepay.net and is supported by something called openlife. Right after I joined I got a fraud alert text from my credit card company which I had to clear so that wasn't cool but I had no other issues joining (still have yet to cancel).
Overall, I was impressed with the site. While most of the girls are known commodities there is lots of stuff to see and almost all of it is well shot. As a picture lover, I wasn't thrilled with some of the picture issues but it certainly wasn't a deal breaker. At the current price, which I suspect won't last long, it's definitely on the must see list for most hardcore fans. |
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08-17-17 01:29pm
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