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Content
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| Quality : |
19.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
8.6 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
8.6 / 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: Duke |
Initial Review: 03-31-04 |
| Follow-Up Review(s): 03-01-06 |
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1. Great quality movies.
2. Tons of content.
1. Too many pwd prompts.
2. Long download wait time.
"Deluxe Pass weeds out most of that picture crap and focuses on giving members lots of porn movies." |
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Deluxe Pass isn't your typical AVS. By that I mean these guys forego the piece-of-crap 30 picture sites that make up the vast majority of listings at an old school style AVS. They do things differently and in fact Deluxe Pass is strictly about movies (there are 33 pictures sites, but that's not the thrust of this network). To me, this is a movie site through and through. Membership is also simplified with no basic and premium membership choices, just one standard rate of $29.95/mo for everybody. The irony is that the title "Deluxe Pass" makes this thing sound complicated but in reality it is a simple, but extensive, database of porn movie websites.
Site design is professional and easy to browse. All their sites are put into about a dozen categories, you know Amateur, Oral, Ethnic, and other typical niches. Each site has a small thumbnail screen capture that provides a bit of a preview about how it looks. Other helpful categories include Top Rated Sites, Biggest Sites, and Latest Updates Sites. Personally, I went straight for the Biggest Sites and Top Rated areas to get right at the ones with the most and best movies to download. There is one navigation feature that is not user-friendly. Whenever you click on a site that you haven't visited yet, a prompt comes up for your username and password. I must've had to enter it dozens of times and it really got on my nerves.
The movies offered by all these sites are great. With few exceptions the quality is top notch and it's a whole lotta hardcore porn. It seems like plenty of sites are included for each niche, for example Amateurs has 76, Oral has 49, and Teen has 89. They are professionally produced porn movies from popular studios and you'll find them entertaining, that is if you're a person with a lot of patience. These things take a long, long, long time to play. They're formatted in XviD AVI and the majority of the file sizes hover around 100-200 Mb. Be prepared to wait for one, two, or three minutes, or more before getting a chance to view a clip you select. A lot of the sites don't break their flicks down into smaller and more manageable segments. Nope, instead I found all too often I had to click "download" and wait... I guess they figure good things come to those who wait.
When you visit Deluxe Pass as a non-member the tour will show you their included sites and allow you to see preview versions. It's a useful tour and a very accurate one since the member's area of all the sites mirrors that of the previews. In other words what you see is what you get and the only difference is your Deluxe Pass membership will replace all those "Join Now" buttons with "Download Video". To sum up, this AVS type networks has a gigantic amount of sharp looking porn movies to be downloaded with the one sticky issue of one video format and long download wait times.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-01-06 |
A long time has passed since our initial review of Deluxe Pass. That's okay though the site itself hasn't changed much at all aside from continued growth to both the number of sites and total amount of content. Deluxe Pass is still one of my top AVS services and it really can compete with some of the better video sites around for surfers looking for a huge database of hardcore movies. In the couple years since our initial review gained more perspective on what I look for from a site with downloadable movies.
Sheer amount of videos, video quality, and a professional site design remain Deluxe Pass's clear strengths. Navigating from site to site is still an issue since it requires entering your username/pwd separately for each site. Also, the individual sites themselves don't typically have very good organization. Instead most list the videos simply in chronological order. The Deluxe Pass member's area has some of that with a DVD listing page with a search function, studio listing, and category breakdown but most member's probably use the sites to find movies. Full length DivX AVI remains the typical single format for downloading although I did run across some movies that also had WMV and/or clips too. These scores have changed: Quantity +1.5, Entertain +1, and Easy -0.5.
Score increased from 85.3 to 87.6.
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