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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
8.2 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
8.2 / 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. Lots of high-quality videos.
2. No download restrictions.
3. Great looking site.
1. Limited movie types (mostly DivX).
2. Pretty expensive.
3. Less sites than other AVS sites.
4. Similar stuff can be found with more features.
"A video lover's dream, the network is pretty good overall, but you might find better deals elsewhere." |
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If you're wanting to get into the AVS world this late in the game, you better have something new to offer or I wouldn't even bother. Enter DeluxePass, a newer AVS (even calling themselves an Adult Entertainment Network, or AEN instead of AVS) that focuses itself on the video market. The AEN label I think is pretty much a technicality thing to work with the credit card companies. What it basically changes is that DeluxePass hosts all the sites in their network, and has some control over the content (barely). The included sites are still built by other people who make money by selling memberships, but this way DeluxePass alone is responsible for what they show.
The main benefits of this setup come in if they do things the right way. Since they host all the sites, if they have good servers and a good internet connection, you won't have to worry about some sites not loading as fast as others. Also, this may help them control the included sites a bit better, cutting down on sites that have long since stopped updating.
The site itself is very pretty, in all aspects of the word. First, it's pink/peach. Second, the site actually looks pretty slick. I'm glad to see the AVS-like sites have come a long way since the first ones I remember, which had horrible text and graphics and were a nightmare to surf through. $30 gets you in the door (yikes!, that's a little higher than other similar sites), and you're ready to browse some video action.
If my calculations are correct, they proudly boast almost 7,000 GIGABYTES of available content on their network. That's a lotta shit to see! Somehow they figure out how much content each site has available, and lets you browse by the biggest sites. Other quick options are the top rated sites, newest sites, and last updated sites. Beyond that, you'll be stuck browsing by categories only, which kinda sucks. Thankfully they don't have a ton of sites like other networks do (almost 700 though), so browsing through the lists won't be as awful as it could be. Most of the sites seem to be of better quality than most AVS sites, so that's another benefit. While browsing through their list, you get a homepage screencap, the title, and the size of the site. Since they obviously have info on when it was last updated, and the rating, it'd be nice to see that info here as well. A short description wouldn't be bad either. From here, you can either enter the site, or add it to your bookmarks for later browsing.
Getting to the sites is easy enough, although you should keep your username and password handy as I had to enter it many times while looking around. Anyhow, as I said before, the sites overall seem to be pretty high-quality. Obviously the video slant is a big thing in my opinion, as I love videos. The biggest problem while browsing was actually the extremely high-quality of videos made the downloads take forever! Most all of them are in DivX format (as well as XviD, which is an open source codec similar to DivX I guess), which means great looking clips but long downloads.
They also have some extra sites to check out, which are more normal porn sites if you get bored with their webmaster's offerings. I guess this is in lieu of offering their own member's section like other sites do. This site could go either way for me. I see the problems being that they don't offer as many sites as others do, and it's rather expensive. If they lowered the price down to $20 a month, I'd love it. On the other hand, they offer up some pretty good sites, and tons of high-quality video. For $30 though, I can't see why you wouldn't want to look at Climax Corner or Ten.com and get just as good looking videos with better search functions to find exactly what you want. Compared to other AVSs, it's pretty clean and good, but compared to video paysites, I'd have to say it's not worth it. Still, you definitely wouldn't be too disappointed with what you got, just with the fact that you're down $30!
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-03-06 |
I'm actually a little surprised that nothing new has really popped up here in terms of navigation, design, extras, etc. They still update like crazy and have a pretty huge collection, which is their big strength, but there's a lot of good competition out there now and I wouldn't mind some changes to keep up with the times. I'd say if you don't mind having a slightly more difficult time browsing, and paying a bit more than you need to, it's a solid choice for some decent videos here. Unfortunately there are just some fantastic sites that directly compete here that are adding new features every couple months that just makes this one a slightly harder join each time.
Score decreased from 87.8 to 82.2.
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