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Content
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| Quality : |
18.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
10.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
63.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 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. Free photos.
2. High quality videos (new ones).
1. Price/token system.
2. Some missing names
"A top contender for real celebrity nude videos, if you wanna pay!" |
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Ahh, another simple site. I'm getting to like these! Celebrity Movie Archive brings you sexy (and sometimes nude) videos of celebrities of all types. The beauty of the site is that there is no members area per se, you are welcome to browse around everything for free. Even the photos (screen caps) are free to look at. So if you've had a hankering to see Madonna's boobs lately, look no further as you can see them here without any BS.
If you want to see the really good stuff, you're gonna have to buy some tokens. I'll get to those later, but basically each video you download costs you a certain amount of tokens. The good news is that they give you some pretty good info before you go spend your hard-earned tokens on a video you don't like. You get a brief description of what's going on, the total size of the video (in megabytes), the length, and whether or not they are nude in the scene. Some of the nude/not nude decisions are a bit close in my opinion, but that's what the free preview pics are for!
The photos vary greatly depending where they were taken from. Most are collages of a scene, with four smaller pics in each large pic being the norm. Some older movies have photos that are about 700x480 (total for the four pics, each individual pic is obviously smaller), while some of the newer movies are grabbed from DVD and are 1400x750 or so. They are, as expected, not the highest quality of pics, but I think they do the best they can with what they are working with.
The videos are offered in MPG format, and you can either stream it or download it to your hard drive. Some of the DVD captures look really good, while others that were grabbed from TV (or something else) look just so-so as you'd expect. Depending on the quality, the size of the video can range from 1-2MB per 10 seconds of video (or more), so watch your download limits. They do a pretty good job of letting you know how much you have left to download before you have to reload your account.
I'm not a fan of these token systems at all. In theory they might seem ok since you only pay for what you want to see, and the webmaster gets to cover all their costs for sure as they're charging you for each and every video you download. However, in the long run I think the webmaster makes a lot more money off these things than needed. The best deal you can get here is just under 2 cents per MB downloaded. Now most webmasters can easily find bandwidth at $1 or less per gig used, while they are charging you the customer about $20 for the same. I understand that you also have to compensate for the time involved getting these videos, and running a website; obviously the webmaster also has to make a profit as well, but I think you're getting less for your money with the token type systems right now. I'd rather pay a monthly fee just once and have access to whatever I want to see, but that's my personal opinion. If you've been looking everywhere for a specific video, at least you won't spend an arm and a leg to pick it up here.
Besides the billing method, I actually like the site quite a bit. I thought Mr. Skin was the be all, end all of celebrity sites, but Celebrity Movie Archive definitely has a good product as well. The quality of the videos they get off of a DVD are amazing, which is a big benefit for me. Plus the fact that you can browse around the photos for free is very nice as well. There's a lot of people I've never heard of here, and a lot of the people I do know don't get nude (damn!), but if you look around enough, you'll find a lot of interesting stuff too. Overall, everything is good for me except the billing!
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 05-12-04 |
Man, about the only thing I see new here is the amount of content. Thankfully, that has jumped up quite a bit from last time we're here. And afterall, the content is why we're all here right? They added a few thousand more pics, and about one thousand more videos as well. It's still not as slick as some of the other celeb sites out there, but overall it's a decent little site, especially with all the videos.
Looking over my score, I'm going to bump up the quantity score, but lower the editor's curve.
Score remains at 92.9.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 01-27-06 |
Man, if I could just keep this short and simple, I'd say, "The site is much the same as it was last time, but it has been growing consistently which is what we like to see!" Does that work?
Seriously, the site looks and feels exactly the same as it did before, with the same large collection, same pricing structure, and a lot of the same celebs. It's grown quite a bit of course, which is expected when your update score is a 10 out of 10 though! So things are good, check out the original (and first followup) reviews to get a good idea of what is offered, as it still stands today.
Score decreased from 92.9 to 89.0.
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