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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.0 / 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. A good amount of exclusive videos.
2. 5 weekly updates.
3. Good quality.
1. Not the best quality, at times.
"A good video site, putting a little more action to Suze Randall’s' photo content." |
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So we all remember our pleasant review of Suze Randall's site, Suze.net, and how well it fared with our reviewers and I shouldn't expect anything less from her video site, Suze-Video.com. If you'll remember back, Suze Randall is a big time photographer with over 30 years of work under her belt, taking pictures of the porn industry's most sought after and beautiful models, such as the ones you'll find in Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse. Many times over the years her work has been featured in these magazines and Suze's style is definitely one of love for the erotic and beautiful nature of the human body and all it encompasses. She plays with bright colors, shadows, and sharp lines, her pictures are clear and pristine and each photo shoot is unique in its character. This, being her video site, "is updated twice weekly with brand new Hardcore sex scenes", and features over 175 adult film stars, "500 video downloads" totaling in over 60 hours of video for $24.95/month.
I'm not all too surprised that Suze offers her images and videos on separate sites, I mean, she certainly has the amount of content to cover each, but it does suck to have to pay a separate monthly membership in order to see both the artists image and video work and not even be able to see it all in one place. Although, I think I mentioned in my review of Suze.net that she does offer a half off deal if you join both sites. Essentially these videos are actual footage from the photo shoots so you might see a parallel in a lot of the content here. And talk about big name stars; you'll find porn stars here like Chasey Lain, Aimee Sweet, Briana Banks, Ginger Lynn, Jenna Jameson, and Tera Patrick, plus many, many more. If there's a big name pornstar in the biz, you can bet your bottom dollar that Suze has shot her.
The main video content on the site is broken down into: new releases, Suze XXX DVD's, Xtreme sex DVD's, 100% hardcore, chixxx on dixxx, girly girls, classics, trash talk, etc. Overall there are more than 10 categories of videos to choose from and the only other way in which to browse the content is by using the model directory, where each girl is listed in alphabetical order along with a nice 175x263 preview thumb. Clicking on a girl gives you access to all of her videos on the site as well as a short bio. From here, however, browsing the videos gets a little sketchy and the site design take the turn from professional to slightly amateur in style. The videos in each category are organized in no real order that I could find, though they do give you a small preview thumb and video description to help aid your decision, but there's no search feature that allows you to search the content by niche, etc. Though the site advertises of 500 video downloads, I counted closer to 300 actual movies (some are broken down into 3+ scenes), with most sections containing around 30-40 videos and the chixxx on dixxx section containing the most and I can tell you that they do place videos in more than one section from time to time, though, it's not obvious.
When it comes to the variety of content found here, I was pretty impressed. There's a good mixture of hardcore and softcore videos and all of the models are hot babes! Though there are always at least 3 options for connection speeds: 150k, 300k, and 700k, I was slightly unimpressed with the quality of the videos at times. Even the 700k quality videos sometimes got highly pixilated when trying to view them at 200% the average size (320x240), but overall they are still nice, falling just slightly above average in quality. One thing that you have to remember here, though, is that these videos are mostly taken from Suze's actual photo shoots. Therefore, you should expect to find more than just fucking's, as there are plenty of people in the room commenting and taking pictures. Often times the actors and models have to stop mid sex to "pose" for the camera. But the sex is still real and still sexy, just often interrupted and noisy (not in a good moaning and groaning way). If it's the 100% hardcore vids you desire, you know, the ones without all the documentary coverage and interruptions, the 100% hardcore section is ready to fill the bill. That is where you will find the true fuck scenes in all their pornstar glory. Of course the centerfolds and strip tease sections offer you a little bit more of the "soft stuff" if you're just looking to get warmed up.
Overall, I like the site but I'm not sure it owns up to the Suze Randall measure of quality that I had hoped it would. Offering the videos in 3 connection speeds obviously makes the site universally friendly for web surfers, which is nice, but I was hoping for some great full screen quality action! Though the videos are certainly viewable full screen, the quality doesn't always allow for the best quality viewing experience for some downloads. As far as the categorization goes, each of the 11 sections does it's best to break the videos down into suitable categories, but that doesn't always mean it'll be easy to find a few of the more niche specific type of content. Implicating a search function would help solve this problem and make the site more user friendly. Another gripe that I have is with the placement of the menu, or site index, at the bottom of the page. Both top and bottom placement, or a permanent menu listing at the top, would make browsing through the different sections a lot easier. If you like big name porn stars and enjoy some of the behind the scenes type of footage, Suze Randall's video site might do the trick, but it wouldn't be my first choice for a movie site.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-10-05 |
Not too long ago we did a follow-up on Suze's photo and sister site, SuzeRandall.com so it's fitting that we're doing this one now. In the last 11 months or so since we've last looked at the site it looks as though a few things have changed besides just an increase in content with updates still coming 2-3 times per week. The main change that I see here, though, is the increase in price. A monthly membership here will now cost you $29.99 per month, upwards from $24.95. While over 500+ video downloads is surely nothing to scoff at, neither is $30 bucks a month considering you'll still have to fork out an additional $30 bucks if you want to check out her image content. Even still, Suze Video remains a good site for fans of her work and mainstream porno in general.
Score increased from 81.3 to 82.4.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 09-28-06 |
It's been quite some time since we last visited Suze Randall's Suze-Video.com, and fortunately there are a lot of cool things to talk about. First and most impressive is the new site design, which offers a few more options and better graphics for smooth navigation of all 668+ videos currently online. Updates are at a steady 5x per week basis and the best part is that the price of admission has dropped from about $30 bucks per month to $25. Next time we're here I hope to see the video quality bumped up a bit since the norm these days is anywhere from 1000k - 2000k+, although 768k is still satisfactory. It's nice to be back and overall I'm pleased with the direction of the site.
Score increased from 82.4 to 84.5.
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