OFFICIAL
75.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
14.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
55.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 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. Updates are coming.
2. Lots of hardcore material.
3. All exclusive content.
1. Have to enter your pw too many times.
2. Updates are usually every two weeks.
3. Video quality needs work.
4. Pretty expensive.
"Unfortunately the lagging quality, slow updates, and high price hurt them in the end." |
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Channel 69 VIP is a network we're going to take a look at today, and judging by their homepage, it looks like they're the home of headless women! Their little header up top is actually headless, and I'm not sure why I'm complaining about that exactly. It's a little hard to tell which sites are included here, as they really put up some small thumbnails here, but you can click through and see what they have to offer: BBB 69, Chunky Chicks 69 (do I notice a numerical theme here?), Hairy Honies and more. We've reviewed all of those sites, and they've scored a bit on the low side unfortunately. $35 a month is their membership cost, which is definitely on the high side.
The goods:
- Updates are coming. Looking around the sites, you won't see too many older dates listed, though they're not exactly coming at a great pace either (read below).
- Lots of hardcore material. While there aren't any single huge sites here, most all of them have 30-50 scenes online, which adds up considering you're accessing nine different sites here. We'll say they have around the mid-300's in terms of scenes now, and about 15-20 new scenes per month are coming up as well.
- All exclusive content. I think they shoot all this stuff themselves as it looks pretty consistent at all, and that's always a plus.
The bads:
- Have to enter your pw too many times. This is one of my pet peeves on networks, when you have to enter your password to each and every site you want to look at. On top of that, half the time they link straight to domain.com, which forwards itself automatically to www.domain.com, making you enter your password AGAIN for the same damn site. If you choose to download a video, WMPlayer may well need a password entered as well - I'm just sick of it all :)
- Updates are usually every two weeks. I thought weekly updates were the minimum posted these days for sites, but here the norm is every two weeks from what I see (with one random site being even slower). It still adds up to a good number of updates per month across the board, but other networks are doing double this amount.
- Video quality needs work. I was seeing 320x240 and 700kbps across the board which is just ancient. Other mediocre sites are doing 480x360 and 1000kbps+, while the better sites are closer to 640x480 and 2000kbps. These just looked quite dated and didn't work for me.
- Pretty expensive. $35 a month is a lot of dough to lay out when there are other, presumably better, sites out there for less money. It's not outrageous, but I'd love a lower price point here.
Conclusion:
I guess this network isn't awful, but it's really not that good either. Some positives are the exclusive content, and decent numbers if you look at the whole (though each specific site could use some growth I say). However, the lagging quality, lack of weekly updates, annoying navigation, and just lack of anything special all around are what stick in my mind here.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-06-07 |
Besides one new site being added to the mix here, nothing is really new. The sites continue to grow pretty slowly, but are getting larger at least. The quality still lags way behind, especially in the videos. They still have that high price tag too, which is a pretty tough sell considering. Unless things really turn around here, you'll have to be content with what they offer I guess. At least the niches are a little unique!
Score decreased from 76.5 to 75.5.
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