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Content
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| Quality : |
17.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
16.5 / 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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| Editor: Vanessa |
Initial Review: 10-20-06 |
| Follow-Up Review(s): |
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1. So much content.
2. Nice organization and site design.
3. Gorgeous women.
1. Picture quality felt grainy/blurred at times.
2. Somewhat expensive.
3. Image size could be larger.
4. Video streams could be higher.
"It's definitely Hustler content but slightly doesn't always feel like Hustler quality." |
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Time for a 5th look at Hustler.com, which would be our 4th follow-up, meaning...re-review! Oh how I love these ;). What a site this is, though! They've been down (84.5), they've been up (89.5, to almost our top 15), and they've regrettably gone back down again (84), but not too far mind you. You see, it seems as though Hustler was offering a special $9.95 price tag for quite some time, but after a while they decided to completely re-structure things and placed the rather high $34.62 price tag back in tact. Don't get me wrong though, this is a huge site offering more than 100,000+ Hustler images and over 108+ full-length DVD's. From the looks of the tour, they seem to have changed much more than just the price and I really like what I see but I still have some problems with the quality.
The Good:
- How is over 100,000+ images and 108+ 60 minute DVD's sound? Not to mention that you get access to every single Hustler Magazine issue since March of 2000. The Current Issue, Back Issues, Centerfolds, Pictorials and Features are all available to browse through by using the main menu, however I would have liked to have seen more browse options (search by date, centerfold, keyword, etc.) Overall though, there's just a ton of content to check out and new content is being added often.
- The Hustler DVD section does offer pull down menus to help you browse: title, star name, and category. The videos are broken down into scenes and stream with 3 choices for bandwidth: 128k, 384k, and 768k. I would like to see an even higher quality stream added as well, and they could probably lose the 128k stream.
- In some ways the site design here isn't all that much different from before in the way that it works. However, they've really cleaned things up and made it much more streamlined. Getting around is easy and besides a search feature, I was pleased. There are also a ton of extras to check out here, too.
The Bad:
- Quality still isn't up to par. The Magazine images are lacking the crispness and clarity that one would expect and the gallery images, although nice, are somewhat pixilated as well and only go as large as 770x496 pixels. I'd really love to see them much larger! The videos too only stream up to 800k, whereas the rest of the Internet world these days is offering streams anywhere from 1000k and up to 4000k!
- Videos are DRM protected which means you must remain a member here in order to view your downloaded videos.
- Price is on the higher side, and may be a bit too high considering the site lacks high quality content.
The Conclusion:
As much as I love the Hustler name and their content, I can't help but feel let-down a bit by the quality of the content they offer. That aside, all else is great! The new design is smooth, the sheer amount of all Hustler content can't be beat and there's so much great action here overall. I guess I'm just missing the old, much lower price tag? If you're a fan of Hustler content (and who isn't?), then I think you will agree with the potential here. But for almost $35 bucks per month, I'd really love to see some bigger changes than just a smooth site design; let's get some large high-res images and higher quality streams going? Please?
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