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Content
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| Quality : |
18.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.5 / 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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1. Unique, niche content.
2. Lots to see!
3. Updates come frequently.
1. Navigation is a little chopped up.
2. Quite expensive.
"This good site could be great if it weren't so dang expensive." |
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Most women on the internet are portrayed as submissive sluts who'll do anything for a dollar or two. If that isn't your thing, you may want to check out Lady Sonia, who bills herself as "Britain's Premier Domme." She has a single-model site, based on herself obviously, which you can join for an astronomical $35 a month (which is almost unheard of for single girl sites these days, especially without a network of sites available as well).
If you dare to pay the price, you're treated with a very nice-looking website. I like the chrome look on the logo - I'm a dork I know, lol. She has a few different entrances once you're in the member's area, which is a little confusing. I hit the "explore Lady Sonia" link first, although they also had Bitchy Boss, Fetish Video, and Fetish Office sections as well. From there you have basically an individual site on its own right here.
Picture galleries are divided up into a few fetishes, including nurse/doctor, latex, equestrian, and more. She has quite the unique content, which is great to see something new. Pictures are decent for the most part, although I did get sick of the white/light-colored backgrounds after a while. They seem to usually fall in the 800x600 range, and the galleries are usually on the small side (20 pics or so each I'd guess). The other sections you could have chosen in the beginning have similar content, but from a bunch of other ladies. Here, the picture size varies more (600x450 to 1024x768 and beyond), but if you enjoy Sonia's pics you'll enjoy these as well. Sonia does offer zip files, although they only contain ten pics each so it's not ideal for what I'd use them for (to grab the whole gallery in one download).
Videos on Sonia's site come in two sections. The first one I checked out is just called the video library. Here each video has two Windows Media options, and two Real Video options. I checked out the higher-quality WMV obviously, and unfortunately was very disappointed with the video quality. The specs aren't great at 320x240 and 266kbps, but the picture it spits out looks even worse. It's a shame, too, because the thumbnail preview looked great, but it doesn't seem to be captured from their video from what I can tell. Any movement creates lots of jagged lines which is what ruins it.
I went back and hit the premium video library, hoping things looked better here. Here you get some nice-looking photos with each video gallery, and four viewing options for the actual videos (MPG, WMV, and Real versions in clips, and a full-video WMV download). These look much better at 320x240 and 925kbps. While they look pretty good, there's still some artifacts to be seen if you zoom in at all, which is surprising with such good numbers. This is the place to go to check out their videos; the other section just gave them a bad name! The only problem I ran into was very slow download speeds at 35KB/sec, which made for a lot of buffering (or slow downloading).
I went to the other sections to check out their videos, but they are much, much smaller in size. The Fetish Video Empire link is actually a link to a third-party plugin so that wasn't much good either to judge the site's content.
Sonia also keeps an active journal, which she updates once a week, although they seem to be stories more than anything (but long ones, and worth a read if you're into them since there are tons of them). The extra sections of content are great for keeping you busy, and she also offers quite a bit in the form of plugins as a last resort here. The sheer amount of content she offers is great, especially when compared to other single-model sites. The big problem is just the price, which can't really be changed unfortunately. I do agree that it's worth more than your run-of-the-mill site out there, but $35 is a lot of money each month. The only other thing missing was dates anywhere, so I have no idea how often she updates. With her site being so large, I have to guess that she has a decent schedule, though.
The other sections (Bitchy Boss, etc.) are actually billed as separate sites, which I wanted to clarify. I think the site is a good find, especially if you're into fetish content. It's an extra bonus if you really dig Lady Sonia herself, as you'll get to see a lot of her. If you've got the money, take a look as I think you'll like what you see.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-12-05 |
I kinda missed Lady Sonia for some reason, maybe she's got herself in my head with some new dominatrix tricks! Things look a lot the same around here, with the always-present high-quality content. The site has grown thanks to the updates (as expected). The videos look 100 times better with much better quality options, which I'm glad to report. Her diary is running and active which is a good way to keep in touch with what's going on. So, pretty good news all around here, though nothing much new if that's what you were hoping for.
Score increased from 83.3 to 84.0.
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