OFFICIAL
67.5
worth a look |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
9.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
49.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.0 / 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: Spencer |
Initial Review: 07-13-06 |
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1. Pictures look decent.
2. Updates do come.
1. Very plain member's area.
2. Needs some growth.
3. Updates are erratic.
4. Video quality could be improved.
"There are just too many problems here right now, but they're fixable!" |
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Show Teens doesn't have much to do with Broadway musicals from what I figured out (those are show tunes), but they are offering up some teens who like to show off. Their tour offers up some decent-looking, European content from what I can tell, but doesn't really explain much about the site. Check through the samples I guess to get an idea, and if you want to get inside you'll have to shell out $30 a month.
The goods:
- Pictures look decent. They are a decent size and look pretty good all around for the most part. The content seems to come from somewhere in Europe and definitely has that distinctive feel to it, but that also means the pictures look good which is the case here.
- Updates do come. It may be two days, and it may be 10 days between updates, but they are coming and the site is growing (which is needed, especially for the price). I wish it was more consistent, but at least they're coming still.
The bads:
- Very plain member's area. Once you login, you basically have a very simple list of the content they offer. There are no categories (even for photos vs. videos), no scenes info, no options, etc. They only put four galleries on a page, and don't number their pages so you're stuck just clicking around a lot of the time.
- Needs some growth. This is especially true for the video count, but overall they just need more content (especially when they charge $30 a month for access). Hopefully in time this will get better.
- Updates are erratic. They do come, but you just never know when. They can come as quickly as 2-3 days after the last, or as many as 10 days or more. A set schedule of three updates per week would be nicer for consistency.
- Video quality could be better. The pictures look okay, but the videos need some work. The bitrate and size just basically need to be bumped up to today's standards as they're definitely trailing behind a bit.
- Downloads were slow coming. They came in around 1/6th of our normal speed unfortunately, which made even the smaller video clips buffer and stutter a lot for me. Hopefully it's a temporary problem here.
Conclusion:
Show Teens just doesn't impress me much unfortunately. The pictures look okay, but that's about the only positive I could come up with here. The updates even out to an okay schedule, but the inconsistency would be unnerving if I was paying a monthly fee. The video quality needs work, and the site itself needs a big overhaul.
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