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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
12.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
5.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
50.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Some okay video options.
2. All-video based AVS.
1. All the sites are the same.
2. No update schedule.
3. Too expensive.
4. Quality needs work.
"For me, this site is doomed from the start when compared to the competition out there." |
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Today we're going to take a look at a site called Adult Video Planet. With the words "adult video" in the title, I'm already excited at what we're going to see. Unfortunately, my hopes were dashed a bit when I found out what type of site it is exactly. This site reminds me a lot of Deluxe Pass, which is a video AVS we reviewed a while back. The deal here is that the site is really made up of these sub-sites (similar to other AVS systems) that random webmasters make. Here, the sites are nearly identical to each other. Maybe Adult Video Planet has strict guidelines when creating them.
After you log in, your only real decision to be made is to choose a category/niche. All the available sites are video-only, so you don't have to worry about choosing what type of content you want to see. They have pretty much all of the main niches including amateur, lesbian, orgy, gay, interracial, etc. Don't come expecting a normal AVS experience, with a search engine guiding you through thousands of webmaster-submitted sites; here, they have just about 100 sites listed, which are all very small in nature, and all found on a single page.
As I said before, all of the sites are setup nearly identical. Don't expect large sites; most sites have about 15-20 videos. I think all the content is from one source, as the download and quality options are exactly the same. Maybe Adult Video Planet has more say in it than most AVS sites do.
Thankfully the viewing options are pretty good, since there's no real variance going on. All of the sites I checked out (which was quite a few) only had Windows Media Video. However, they had four quality settings, and scenes were broken up into clips as well as having the full download available. The quality ranges from 180x120 at 56k to 570x380 at 768k. The content is pretty standard DVD stuff, so the quality is decent. Download speed was pretty good, too, although not outstanding at 200KB/sec. Pictures are available, but they are just screen caps (at 570x380, just like the video) so are kinda worthless.
The site is a weird one. It's a deceptively simple site at first, making the whole thing look smaller than it really is. There's no set update schedules anywhere (for new videos, or new sites), which is a little disturbing. Also, the monthly cost of $30 is pretty high. While the videos here are cool, they don't have nearly as many features as some of our top video sites do which charge the same, or less. Overall, it's not a horrible site, but I definitely wouldn't pay $30 a month for it.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 08-15-06 |
Wow, it's been a while since we've been here, and surprisingly things look similar to last time. Of course there has been some growth in the number of sites, but the basics remain the same. The $30 price tag is looking a bit out of place now with so many other sites dropping prices to sub-$20 levels, especially when you consider that you're not getting a shitload of content, and the videos you might have seen elsewhere before. The quality needs a bit of work now too with a lot of sites passing the 640x480 and 1000kbps mark as an average. The overall AVS thing just doesn't really cut it for me anymore with the weak navigation, no extras or info, and lack of originality.
Score decreased from 82.6 to 73.0.
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