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Content
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| Quality : |
17.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
61.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.5 / 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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1. Variety of entertaining content.
2. High quality images.
3. Great options for image size.
1. Highest streaming option for videos is 256k.
2. Videos play embedded in your browser window.
"The name Viv Thomas has become synonymous with high quality porn." |
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Viv Thomas.com is the website for famous photographer and content provider, Viv Thomas. Here you will find over 30,000+ images and 300+ videos of some of the hottest, most familiar girls on the Internet. From good ol' old school classics to busty blondes, babes, lesbians, rookies, hardcore, leg lovers and more, it's all here. The site, with its seemingly rough design, is actually a pleasure to browse for the most part and offers quite a bit of handy browsing features. The 300+ videos found here are stream only unless you want to pay an extra $14.95 to be able to download; that's on top of the $19.95 monthly membership fee. So even though this site is slightly cheaper than the video site, Viv Thomas Video, there's roughly the same amount of videos and if you're one who likes to download your porn, you might want to weigh your options between the two.
Your browsing options for the site include: a gallery (categories listed by niche); leg lovers photos & extreme close ups; a list of the top models; members request; a model index in alphabetical order; video; specials (behind the scenes, close ups, erotic art, etc.); and extras. Updates are scheduled once per week, on Fridays, with anywhere from 3-5 new sets being added each time. One of the best features you'll find on Viv Thomas.com is the ability to view each and every high quality picture set in a variety of different image size settings: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, as well as an amazing, full-screen 1280x1024. If you were to check out any of the top content sites it is very likely that you'll have seen at least a portion of these image sets. Though, what's nice about this site is that one, they're all in one place and two, the content here is very consistent and extremely high quality offering some amazingly hot chicks in both hardcore and softcore settings including full spreads (extreme close-ups), toy play, boy-girl, girl-girl, role playing, 3somes, 4somes, hot legs and feet, busty babes, old school 80's porn, and much, much more. There's a great variety of content to be found here, all of which is very high quality and enough to keep even the pickiest of porn connoisseurs happy for quite some time.
Your options for video include an online shop, streaming video, and some behind the scenes footage. The behind the scenes footage is available for download, only the streaming videos require you to pay the additional $14.95. Streaming videos can be browsed by category or model, they run about 15 minutes in length each, and can be watched in full or as a series of short (2 minute) clips. All videos are offered in 56k, 128k, and 256k for Windows Media Player, but unfortunately they only stream embedded in your browser window. The quality is about average to below and it would be nice if they offered an even larger streaming option for those of us with faster connection speeds. Such great porno really should be followed up with some very high quality streaming options for those of us who can handle it. Otherwise, the videos are really cool and feature quite a few awesome sex scenes, some fresh and young cuties, and even some that cater to legs and feet fetishes. The behind the scenes videos offer a nice quality DivX download, however, there's just not as much of a tendency towards wanting to yank the chain when all you're doing is watching all the effort that goes in to making porn.
Overall there's quite a bit of content here and a lot of it, especially the images, offer very cool image size options, opening up to great quality pictures. The variety and fuck factor here is nice and high, making for an entertaining and worthwhile site. My main gripe would be with the low quality options for the videos. Offering files the stream closer to 500-700k+ would make for some awesome quality porn, though, maybe they allow customers who pay extra to be able to download the videos some higher quality files? Either way, I probably wouldn't put in the extra $15 to find out. Offering close to the same amount of pictures and videos, the video site Viv Thomas Video might be worth checking out if you insist on being able to download your porn and even offers some higher quality download options (800k+). The main bonus to this site over the video site (other than the cheaper $19.95 price tag) is that the photo sets here are offered in 4 different resolutions. While the video site only offers one image size, they are normally very high quality images anyway. Viv Thomas.com has its definite positives, but I still think I prefer the video site over it in the end; still a very nice site for an awesome variety of high quality image content.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 06-06-05 |
After about a year or so we like to follow-up with sites and see what's doing? The obvious expectation is an increase in the amount of content, which Viv Thomas.com is no exception. Formally offering around 30,000+ images, that number is now up to around 55,000+, which is great! What I don't understand, however, is how the video collection appears to have dropped from 300+ streaming (only) videos to there now being only 43+. These fewer number of videos are offered in both streaming and download formats, which is nice, but where did the rest of them go? The price has stayed the same, which is nice and overall Viv Thomas.com is still on hell of a site for porno and Viv Thomas porno fans alike.
Score remains at 84.6.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 08-18-06 |
My bottom line for this site is - "the name Viv Thomas has become synonymous with high quality porn" - and now VivThomas.com can also be associated with exceptional site design! That's right, there's a new a beautiful layout here showcasing the high quality contnet; content categories, model index, search features, etc. Updates are continuous but my main concern still has to do with the quality of the videos, which remains at 256k. There is a dire need of some quality upgrading in this department but overall I'm excited to see the growth and improvements that have been made in design.
Score increased from 84.6 to 86.0.
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