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| Content Quantity: |
18/20 |
Content Quality: |
20/20 |
Updates: |
7/10 |
| Entertainment: |
14/15 |
Navigation & Design: |
6/10 |
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2/5 |
| Value for Money: |
13/15 |
Reviewer's Tilt: |
2/5 |
Total: |
82/100 |
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This Adult Entertainment Network offers members a sizeable collection of hardcore videos from popular porn studios and DVD series, and a nice bonus in the form of two small reality sites and 16 other sites with both video and photo content.
Aside from sheer quantity, the video quality is also excellent and way ahead of most porn sites.
AmazingPass and AVN/AEN's in general are starting to show their serious limitations in design, navigation and features though, and while still excellent sites in their own right, are unfortunately no match for a few of their more recent competitors in these areas.
Worth a look, perhaps even joining, but I would probably check out the competion first.
(Read the full review below)
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| Pictures: |
Reportedly 200,000+ photos spread out over the included sites (not verified, but a very rough count makes it seem probable)
Resolution varies from around 640px to 1600px |
| Video: |
350 DVDs (varying number of scenes, each scene approx. 15-40 minutes)
XVid (avi) available, Windows Media (wmv) on some sites
Highest quality: avi 640x480, 1100 kbit
No DRM protection |
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AmazingPass is an AVN/AEN (adult video/entertainment network) made up of 120+ small sites
Also includes 16 bonus video sites and 2 reality porn sites |
| Pricing: |
1 month recurring: $24.95
3 months recurring: $59.95 |
If you want a whole lot of hardcore video porn for your money, Adult Video/Entertainment Networks have been a very good option for several years, and they probably remain that way even though they now have some very steep and direct competition in sites like VideosZ (they started out with an AVN in fact, still running) and VideoBox.
AmazingPass has been around for a few years, and currently offers members a fairly impressive collection of 350+ downloadable hardcore DVDs from various porn studios, with the scenes spread out over around 120 small themed sites, most of them with around 6-12 scenes.
In addition to the sites with DVD content, membership also includes two small reality sites as well as 16 niche sites with various other videos as well as a pretty huge photo collection.
Covering all the content would be a pretty large task, so let's just stick to saying that most of the DVD content is pretty damn hot, covering a variety of hardcore niches and generally taken from popular studios and movie series - which also means that hardened porn fans are likely to have seen a lot of it before, either on the original DVDs (assuming you're still one of those actually buying those things) or on other sites using licensed DVD content.
I usually don't spend a whole lot of time writing about site design and navigation in my reviews - unless it's so bad it bears mentioning. That's not exactly the case with AmazingPass, but as much as I would prefer to leave comparisons out of reviews (they do have their place sometimes though - this being one of them), when most of the content is essentially the same as what you can find at VideosZ, VideoBox and other similar sites, it quickly becomes apparant how huge a step ahead those sites are in terms of user friendliness.
At AmazingPass (as with other AVN/AEN's), you're generally left to leisurely browing the large number of small sites (and log in to each one of them - quite an annoyance actually) in an almost random search for what you're after (they are of course divided by categories like anal, lesbian, pornstars etc. - although in the case of AmazingPass they could use quite a bit of extra diversity). That's in very stark contrast to VideosZ and co. that are extremely well laid out and with navigation and search features that makes it very easy to find pornstars, movie series, studios, niches etc. - all on a single site.
While I'm not too thrilled about the AVN/AEN approach when viewed in comparison to the more slick competition, AmazingPass does have one area where it takes the lead - video quality.
The XVid format is used on most of the sites (there's a link to the required video codec if you don't have it installed already), and the videos look great in 640x480, 1100 kbit.
There's a downside to this as well though, this option is the only one for the vast majority of the content, meaning you're looking at 150-300 Mb downloads for every scene. No problem if you're on a fast broadband connection, but an absolute no go for dialup users - and probably even people on slow broadband lines, unless it's coupled with a great deal of patience.
So with all this critique is AmazingPass worth your time and money then? Well, there's definately enough hardcore video content here to be worth the $24.95 a month - and it certainly doesn't hurt that the quality of most of the videos is excellent.
Since a review site is a buyer's guide, I won't lie to you though - if I was looking for downloadable DVD content, AmazingPass, or any other AVN/AEN, wouldn't be my first choice these days.
An AEN like AmazingPass may still objectively offer great value for the money, but it's just too difficult finding the content or the DVDs you are looking for when they are spread out over 100+ small sites with inconsistent designs, rather than all being grouped together on a single huge site with excellent navigation features.
AmazingPass is the first AVN/AEN I have reviewed. It may not be the last, but personally I feel these types of site networks have grown a bit obsolete over the last few years given the competition I've mentioned several times in this review.
This is also the first time I've made serious use of direct comparisons with other sites - maybe not entirely fair towards AmazingPass, but in this case, certainly not fair to you either if I hadn't, considering many, even most of these videos are available at a number of other sites as well.
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