Archive for March 2008
Pornstar Profile: Vicky Vette
Filed under Pornstar Profiles :: Posted on March 21 2008
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Who’s the hottest MILF in porn? Well, that’s a matter of opinion of course, but I think I would have to go with Vicky Vette.
At 42 this busty blonde of Norwegian origin still looks utterly amazing – hell, she would look fantastic for for a 30 year old – and in fact she didn’t actually start her very succesful career as a pornstar until 2003, which must be somewhat unusual in that business.
Vicky Vette has been quite busy in those five years though, as she’s currently featured on no less than 158 DVDs at pay-per-view site AEBN, and you can find her in a quite impressive 30 scenes at VideoBox as well (37 if you count the behind the scenes stuff), if DVD download sites is more your thing.
Here are direct links to Vicky Vette’s scenes at AEBN and VideoBox
Aside from her amazing good looks, there are obviously a few other important factors contributing to making this sexy babe one of my favourite MILFs – anal, lots of anal. And occasionally double penetration as well, including one or two full blown gangbangs over the course of her career.
So basically all the ingredients I tend to look for in hardcore pornstars then. Not that there’s anything wrong with a good basic blowjob or a bit of cock-in-pussy sex of course – but you do sort of tend to get those thrown in “for free” in most anal and DP scenes anyway, and admittedly her blowjobs in particular can certainly hold the attention of even an die hard anal fan like me.
Not surprisingly, Vicky Vette has done so many really hot scenes that it’s hard to pick just a select few favourites or standouts, but if I had to give it a shot I would probably have to go with her 41 minute double penetration gangbang on Mommy Gangbang 1 (available at both VideoBox and AEBN), her unbelievably sexy point of view scene on MILF POV 3 (AEBN) and her shiny, oiled up performance on Big Wet Asses 3 Iron Sides (VideoBox, AEBN).
If – like me – you’re interested in more of her DP scenes, I also recommend taking a look at Deep Cheeks 9 (one of Vicky Vette’s early movies from 2003), Double Parked 16 and Incumming 2 – all available at AEBN. And once I’m done writing this I think I’ll be watching a gangbang scene I don’t think I’ve noticed before, on Gangbang MILFs. Based on the screen caps it doesn’t look like a repeat of the one on Mommy Gangbang (which can actually be found in edited versions on a couple of other DVDs as well).
And while I’m at it, let me throw in Vicky’s scene from American Ass 2 as well – available at VideoBox. No DP but still a really hot semi-POV anal scene.
HD Porn – not just on your PC monitor
Filed under Tech Talk :: Posted on March 10 2008
In January I finally got my 15-year old, inherited, 25″ Phillips TV replaced with a shiny new 40″ 1080p Samsung HDTV, which obviously meant it was time to try to watch a few… alright, a lot then, of the hundreds of porn movies on my harddisks, on a screen a bit larger than my usual small(ish) 22″ and 19″ PC monitors.
Fortunately the Playstation 3 I had bought together with my new TV was up for the task of wirelessly streaming video from my PC – after some messing around with Windows Media Sharing and assorted folders on the latter.
Well, it was sort of up for the task anyway. Even though WMV and DivX are both supported formats, the PS3 didn’t really like files in those formats from certain sites, including unfortunately my favourite source of hardcore porn, VideoBox, and it wouldn’t chew through the DivX (or more recent mp4) files from Club Sandy and Pix & Video either.
And the whole streaming thing really didn’t work particularly well either with high resolution videos, presumably because of the somewhat limited bandwidth of a wireless connection (both my PC and my PS3 are connected wirelessly) – it was more like watching an extremely jerky slideshow when I tried my luck with videos over a certain resolution and bit rate.
Good thing then that it’s possible to copy the video files over to the PS3 harddrive – or when you run out of space, buy an external USB harddrive, hook it up to your PC and shove your entire porn collection onto it and then proceed to plug it into the PS3.
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Worth mentioning though, is that the other day (I originally wrote most of the text for this post a couple of weeks ago) I actually found an alternative to Windows Media Sharing – TVersity – that not only has proved able to handle streaming of 720p, 4000 kbit videos without any stuttering, but also – thanks to using the PC rather than the PS3 for video “transcoding” as they call it – has allowed me to stream pretty much any format, including those VideoBox WMV files I complained about above as well as the DivX and mp4 files from Club Sandy and Pix & Video.
TVersity is also less resource hungry on the PC side than Windows Media Sharing, and overall faster and more responsive when I’m browsing video/photo folders from my PS3.
So if you’re looking for a media server, I definately recommend taking a look at TVersity. As a nice bonus it’s entirely free of charge – though potentially a bit tricky to set up correctly if you skip through the documentation a bit too fast.
Alright then, so don’t go in expecting to actually watch any porn for a couple of hours the first time you try this out, but at least most of this only has to be done once and then you (almost) just have to hit “play” the next time.
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But how was the quality on a screen around or more than twice as large as a typical PC monitor? Well, just like when you’re watching video on one of the latter, that obviously depends on the resolution and bit rate of the videos in question.
Some of the 4:3 format videos (black bars at the sides, I don’t like the stretched format I’ve seen many people use on 4:3 broadcasts/video, just to fill up an entire 16:9 widescreen TV) I tried in 640×480, 1500+ kbit actually didn’t look too bad even on such a large screen – though obviously the image was blurry and lacked in detail.
Next step up was the uncommon but generally very good looking 960×540, 2000 kbit widesceen format from my favourite lesbian site, Sapphic Erotica, and now we’re really getting somewhere. Yes, the relatively low bit rate (comparatively, when we’re talking about DVD/HD movies and not just Internet porn) meant these videos aren’t exactly ultra sharp either, but they really do look great, and obviously all the more impressive as they are filling up the TV with their 16:9 format.
And then the ultimate test – downloaded HD porn (you can see a full list of the HD video sites I’ve reviewed here).
Now obviously current bandwidth limitations mean rather severe comprimises on bit rate, typically 4000 kbit vs. a staggering 20-40.000 variable bit rate on Hollywood Blu-ray movies (somewhat less on HD broadcasts, and 9.800 kbit, 720×576/480, on regular DVD), and with so far a couple of exceptions, 720p HD format rather than 1080p, although this last part shouldn’t make the biggest difference, particularly since most of the HDTVs in the living rooms out there only support 720p anyway.
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What this ends up meaning in practical application, is that the 720p HD porn videos I’ve been watching on my 22″ widescreen monitor, thinking “fuck, that looks unbelievable”, fare somewhat worse on that 40″ HDTV.
Alright, they still look pretty great, but now that I’ve had the option of comparing them (somewhat unfairly, thanks to the lower bitrate plus the fact that I rather doubt many porn studios have Hollywood or broadcast level equipment) against proper HD on Blu-ray movies and broadcast channels like Discovery HD and a few European HD movie channels, it’s quite obvious that downloadable HD porn – and from what I’ve read, even digital delivery of regular HD movies – only barely qualifies for the “high definition” label.
The resolution (1280×720 or in a few cases 1920×1080) is up to standards, but Internet speeds in general aren’t up for the task of delivering both high resolution and high bit rate video just yet, and that means the incredible sharpness and detail level that defines HD (Blu-ray, broadcasts and the recently defunct HD DVD) just isn’t there.
But of course this doesn’t in any way impact the fact that those 1280×720, 4000+ kbit HD videos we’re seeing on an increasing number of porn sites still look significantly better than all the rest out there – and are well worth watching on a large HDTV if you’ve got a PS3, XBox 360, Windows Media Center Extender (set-top box), some other media server solution or your PC connected directly to your TV.
And even porn in lower quality can certainly benefit from a large screen.
Pornstar Profile: Sasha Grey
Filed under Pornstar Profiles :: Posted on March 4 2008
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19-year old (20 later this month) Sasha Grey – a sexy, slender brunette – is without a doubt one of the most popular new porn starlets, and in less than two years she has already appeared in around a hundred hardcore movies from major studios like Evil Angel, Zero Tolerance, Hustler, Red Light District and numerous others.
Sasha Grey doesn’t shy away from anything, anal, double penetration, gangbangs, lesbian, squirting – hell, even occasionally some simple old fashioned, one-on-one, cock-in-pussy sex or “innocent” solo masturbation.
And if the first three categories didn’t already hint at it, watching a few of her videos quickly confirms that this babe tends to love it rough. Sasha Grey is no quiet, timid girl getting thrown around by the guys in group scenes – she knows what she wants and she doesn’t mind asking, or screaming, for it.
In fact I think her only “flaw” is that she’s often a bit too vocal for my taste – but the rest of her performance, and her looks, more than make up for that.
So where do you go if you want to watch Sasha Grey in action? Well, unfortunately the selection at the DVD download sites is somewhat limited at the moment, but VideoBox does have nine scenes (eleven including behind the scenes features) and VideosZ seven – a few of them overlapping between the two sites. (Update, September 2009: VideoBox in particular now fares much better in the Sasha Grey department, with currently 47 scenes, which VideosZ now weighs in at 18. Zero Tolerance and Third Movies are also quite decent choices.)
I also noticed a few Sasha Grey videos in the Evil Angel network I reviewed recently, including a hardcore lesbian scene with another favourite girl of mine, Dana DeArmond, and I’m also quite certain I’ve seen one or several of her videos at various other sites I’ve reviewed, but tracking them down is unfortunately not particularly easy.
As the case usually is with hardcore pornstars, the most abundant source of Sasha Grey movies is the huge pay-per-view/download site AEBN. They currently have 93 of the DVDs where she’s starred in one or more scenes – which is damn near the full collection.
Pay-per-view is not quite a value-for-money deal on par with the DVD download sites if you’re just looking for the most hardcore bang for the buck – but in specific cases like this where the content at the smaller DVD download sites is somewhat limited, it might very well be worth a look. And obviously you only pay for what you watch (well, more accurately you buy minute packages, or individual downloads or rentals), so pay-per-view could end up being cheaper than a regular site membership if you’re just looking for a few hours of video entertainment a month.
Here’s a direct link to Sasha’s movies at AEBN.
I haven’t yet watched all of Sasha Grey’s movies myself – and probably never will, as I’ll likely stick mostly to what I feel this babe does best, anal and double penetration. Fortunately particularly the former appears to be among this lady’s favourite hobbies (still hoping for, and expecting, more DP movies in the future, that collection is unfortunately still rather limited), so there’s not exactly a shortage of recommendable movies.
A few of my own favourites (all at AEBN) include her four scene, 150 minutes marathon performance in Gang Bang 5 Part 2 (and part 1 comes heavily recommended as well by the way, it stars the almost always amazing Naomi) as well as Teenage Heartbreakers, Girl Next Door 2 (available at VideoBox as well as AEBN) and Blow Me Sandwich 11, the last of them featuring a really hot POV blowjob scene putting Sasha together with Maya Hills.
And I could easily add many other movies to that list.
Pornstar Profile: Sophie Moone
Filed under Pornstar Profiles :: Posted on March 2 2008
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Here is the first of hopefully many pornstar profiles to come at the new blog here at Mike’s Porn Site Reviews.
This one is a minor rewrite of a profile I wrote a while ago for a Eurobabe project of mine that I quickly decided to drop, but next week I’ll get started on the research (that would in this case be a euphemism for watching a lot of porn) for the next original profile.
But let’s get on with Sophie Moone for now.
This 26-year old blonde Hungarian babe has been sitting at the top of the model top 10 list at Club Sandy and Pix & Video for as long as I can remember, and no wonder really, she’s hot as hell.
My own personal hit list may overall be favouring brunettes, but Sophie Moone definately deserves a spot near the top here as well.
Sophie Moone has been working as a model since 2001, and aside from her own official site (launched in late 2005), Club Sandy and Pix & Video (like the official site, both also run by 21Sextury) are probably the two best online sources for her always incredibly hot solo and lesbian videos and photosets. In fact at Club Sandy no other girl but Sandy herself is starring in more videos and photosets than Sophie (many of them overlapping as they’ve done a lot of lesbian scenes together), and she has been a regularly featured model ever since the two sites launched in December 2003.
Here is a direct link to the list of Sophie’s videos and photosets at Club Sandy – her Pix & Video content is also listed further down the page.
Another great source of older Sophie Moone content is 1 By Day, where you can find 42 videos and photosets in their old archives section, dating from 2002 to 2005.
Twistys is not a bad place either, for photo content at least, with 39 photosets and three masturbation videos, though only a very small portion of it exclusive to that site (I haven’t done any extensive cross referencing to see where the rest might have come from though).
While Sophie Moone is sticking to lesbian and solo toy fun these days, she did do a few hardcore guy/girl scenes earlier in her career. You can find one of those videos at Club Sandy (a pretty hot anal scene from early 2004), two at 1 By Day and a few photosets at Twistys.
Additionally this blonde babe doesn’t mind taking part in a threesome with another girl and guy once in a while, and while she keeps her attention on the girl, the end result nevertheless still tends to be pretty damn hot. You can find a few of those scenes at her official site and Pix & Video.