OFFICIAL
76.1
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
57.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
1.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
11.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
7.6 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
7.6 / 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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| Editor: Spencer |
Initial Review: 05-14-04 |
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1. Lots of episodes, and all exclusive!
2. Newest videos look really good.
1. Site is a bit expensive for a single site (no network).
2. Older video quality is pretty bad.
"A decent reality site with a large library of content is marred by poor quality, and a weak website." |
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What always interests me most about reality sites is the gimmick the use to supposedly lure the girl into the (figurative) sack. Today's site is called California Pimp, and the gimmick is a pretty simple/standard one. Basically they lure girls to meet them by offering a job modeling for a calendar. Once there, the girls are such sluts that they just drop their panties and want to start fucking whoever happens to be there. That happens a lot to me in real life, too. Chicks just can't get enough of us internet dorks.
The tour is pretty nice-looking, but once you login to the member's area it's like a different world. You get mostly a page full of text, without much graphics at all. Along the top there is a menu to get around, but that's it. The black and white page wasn't appealing at all; I'd feel pretty jipped after spending $30 to see this crap awaiting inside.
Along the top, the menu breaks their content down by when it was produced. It looks like they've been doing this since June of 2000. Once you click a time period, a page will show up with thumbnail previews of the girls from each episode, and links to the high-quality or low-quality version of the videos. Depending when you're watching, the video quality changes a ton. The older ones frankly just don't look that great. They're usually offered in MPG and Real Video format, with the MPG version looking slightly better. They both have picture quality problems galore, with lots of jagged edges. There's also some low-light issues in some of them, although that doesn't have to do with how they were encoded. The newer ones offer Real Video encoded at 590kbps, which make them look much better. They appear to be on a Real Server, which means they really are streamed, so you can jump around in the video right away. The MPG versions look better as well, although not as good as the Real counterparts on the newest stuff! If the standard quality on the site was the newest Real Video, I wouldn't have any problems. Since most of their stuff is older though, and that looks a lot worse, I'm going to have to say that on average the video quality isn't up to par.
Each video is setup in pretty much the same format. If you enjoy it, great; if not, you could get a little bored since the content is all pretty similar (new girls each time though!). There are no pictures available on the site at all, which is weird these days (most sites at least contain video caps or something, although those don't do much for me anyway). The only extras are some behind the scenes footage, and some rejection clips. I enjoyed the rejection clips a bit (where the girls supposedly don't wanna go through with the shoot), but the quality was pretty low on most of them so it wasn't worth a lot of time. They sell VHS/DVDs as well, but there's only four available and they're $35 a pop.
The site, overall, just didn't impress me. If we had a better design in the member's area, and a majority of the content was the better quality we see in the new stuff, I'd like the site a lot more. But for $30, without access to any other sites (no network involved), with sub-par content, I just can't recommend it. Perhaps a year down the road, when more high-quality videos are up, I'll feel differently.
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