OFFICIAL
77.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
19.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
10.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
6.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
57.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.5 / 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: 08-03-04 |
| Follow-Up Review(s): 11-30-05 |
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1. Good vid quality.
2. Fun British chicks.
1. No dates on content.
2. Sluggish updates.
"A simple straightforward site with some fun amateur British videos." |
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Man, I love the British. I usually only hear the word "fortnight" when I watch Wimbledon every year. Real Couples puts that word to good use when they say "Updated every Fortnight with Fresh Exclusive Content". For those of you who don't know that means they update every two weeks, which is kind of slow but at least the language sounds sophisticated. I mention just to make sure you know these are indeed British videos. I actually think that's a real plus since I always dig the accent and it's always nice to see new performers instead of the same American starlets I see over and over.
Other than its British chicks and mix of dudes, Real Couples plays out like an ordinary amateur video site. In the 25 videos the sex is virtually all one on one boy/girl except for one 2-on-1 group scene. Included are the standard blowjobs, hardcore, and facials but to their credit some of the scenes feature anal and creampies which add some variety. Real Couples might be a somewhat misleading title since their site states these are "Exclusive movies featuring Angel Long, Sarah Wright, Michelle Thorne...". It's not like these are all real life "couples" getting filmed. Most of the girls act and perform like they've done this once, twice, or a dozen times before. The benefit is most of the girls have the bodies and looks necessary for porn (with a couple exceptions).
Quality and exclusivity are two strong traits of the movies. You're not going to find these things all over tons of movie sites. The biggest drawback is the total number of videos is only 25. The single format is WMV but two quality choices are available. For High Quality each video is divided in to two clips of roughly 100 MB in size. These are excellent looking videos with a very sharp and crisp picture. The Low/Mid Quality have each video in six clips of about 8-15 MB each. There's some grain on those but they're definitely still watchable. All clips can be both streamed and downloaded to your computer.
Extra content of note includes One Eyed Jack's Movie Archive and the Amateur Hardcore Picture database (50k pics). The movie archive is a nice collection of scenes although they only can be streamed in an in-browser player which is a real bummer. I've seen this collection on several other sites, they lease it out to paysites, but it's not nearly as common as some other content feeds.
If you're interested in what Real Couples offers, then definitely click over to see One Man Banned, a larger collection of movies from the same company. Real Couples is kind of like a mini version of that site. The price is a bit smaller here too, $24.95/mo as opposed to One Man's $34.95/mo. Right now it's the small number of videos that's holding Real Couples back, hopefully they'll pick up the pace of new additions.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-30-05 |
Real Couples hasn't changed too much with the exception of some growth. During my initial review I pointed to that issue as the key to improving this site. The basics like member's area design and content downloading/quality remain as they were so there's no need to rehash my thoughts on those. The number of movies has doubled to over 50 which is a big help indeed. That'll increase the quantity score a bit but more importantly it puts things more in line value-wise in comparison to the price.
I suppose they still update every couple of weeks. There aren't specific dates on the content so it's tough to tell. The only thing I have to go on is the growth so obviously updates have been getting done. It seems the bonus content has shifted away from the One Eyed Jack archive to a mixture of feeds, some downloadable BJ/HJ videos, and some live cam networks.
Score increased from 76.7 to 77.5.
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