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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
60.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
8.1 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
8.1 / 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 viewing/download options.
2. Fun stuff within the niche.
3. Lots of content here.
1. The design/navigation could be better.
2. Pretty expensive!!
3. Video quality could still be improved.
"A pretty nice bondage site here with a lot of content, though the quality could be a little better." |
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I remember when I was a little boy, if I did something wrong I'd get hogtied up in the backyard until I was sorry for what I did. Thankfully the cute neighbor girl would come over and pay me some attention which was well worth the humiliation.
Okay, nothing like that ever happened. I've never really gotten into the tied up thing before, but here at Hogtied I'd have to guess they are very into it. The site looks quite familiar, since we've looked at a few sites from this company in the past (most notably Fucking Machines). It'll cost ya $30 to get in the door here, which is on the high end of the spectrum. I'm assuming what you'll get is some good, exclusive, hardcore content - we can hope at least.
The member's area is setup the same as their tour, though they have a link to a beta member's area as well. That one looks to be setup similarly, with a different color scheme being the biggest difference in my 15 second peek. You'll have to hit their updates link in the top menu to get anywhere, and from there you can also switch away from the full view to either the brief view (less image previews), or no images version. I liked the brief view the best, giving you a medium-sized preview image and a good description.
Each scene has both images and videos, and it looks like they go a bit crazy in their setups. Their image galleries have two picture sizes, so be sure to hit the hi-res link if you want larger pics. That will get you 1200x800 pics instead of 800x600, but you have to remember to hit the link for each new gallery you check out. Picture quality is good here, with a bit of an amateur flair. You can also create a zip file from specific images if that sounds appealing. Galleries are usually large, with several hundred pictures each being the norm.
Videos can be streamed online, but I went to the downloadable clips to check them out. The standard option is a Windows Media Video clip (no full-scene videos from what I saw), but again up at the top you can toggle it to Real Videos instead. The streaming version is a full-scene video, but in Real Video only unfortunately. The newest WMV clips look pretty nice since they're 640x480, but the encoding is only at 500kbps which seems a bit lower than I was expecting. Most of them are only 320x240 and 350kbps though, which leaves a bit to be desired. I'm glad they upgraded a bit, but I would have liked to have seen it a bit better even still. A full-scene WMV file would be nice, too :)
There is a lot to see here, with over 27 pages of galleries up. A new scene is added once a week on the dot it seems, which will help continue this site growing. Although the video quality could be improved, you get a lot here for your money which is a welcome change. Besides the stuff I mentioned before, there's not much I'd change really. Definitely worth a look if you like the BDSM scene, and more specifically seeing girls tied up. There's some good stuff here.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 05-15-06 |
Well, things look mostly similar around here which isn't too bad of a thing. Updates are still coming regularly, which makes the site as big as ever. There are a few small changes to note. First, the bad news is that the price is up even higher at $35 a month. That's expensive for most any site these days (we're in the process of trying to get sites to lower their price!). Second, the better news is that there was a small jump in Windows Media Video quality to about 700kbps, which is still not quite high enough for my liking of course :) So the essence is pretty much the small with a few technical changes, so the score should remain close.
Score increased from 81.5 to 82.1.
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