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Yes, I've reviewed quite a lot of toys/masturbation/lesbian sites here at Mike's Porn Site Reviews, and handed out some pretty spectacular scores, but that's because these sites have often, for whatever reason, been setting the standards for how most porn sites ought to be doing things.
You can add ALS Scan (All Ladies Shaved) to the list of spectacular (and in this case fairly extreme and very varied) sites covering the full range of dildo and hardcore lesbian fun. The site design might look a bit too much like 90s leftovers, but the video and photo content is incredibly hot and constantly updated, the clean shaven ladies gorgeous and the technical quality great.
This one goes straight to my list of personal favourites.
(Read the full review below)
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Site info updated January 22 2010
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Approx. 70,000+ photos (approx. 100-800 per model)
1400 px resolution (optional 2700/3200/3800+ px version available for sets from the last three years) |
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970+ (approx. 10-30 minutes each)
WMV, DivX, H.264 MP4 and streaming Flash formats available (DivX and wmv for non-HD videos)
Highest quality: wmv 1920x1080 (1080p HD), 8000 kbit
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Bloopers and outtakes
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1 month recurring: $/€29.95
2 months recurring: $/€44.95
3 months recurring: $/€59.95 |
Update, January 22 2010
A quick update before my current membership expires (I'll most certainly be rejoining later this year, this remains one of my absolutely favourite sites). ALS Scan continues to add great and usually very hot solo masturbation and lesbian content - including lots of dildo action and solo and lesbian fisting - at the same quick pace as usual, with the total number of videos on the site now weighing in at a whopping 970+. And plenty of sharp, high resolution photo content for those interested in that as well.
As I've mentioned several times before, the site design - tour and member area - still looks like something that would likely have been considered pretty ugly back in the mid to late 90s, but don't let that deter you. Site functionality is decent enough - hell, they even have a streaming Flash option for videos these days - and the actual content quality is as good as it comes. And so are the babes in the videos and photos, new girls as well as old member favourites.
Update, May 1 2009
ALS Scan keeps growing at a very fast pace - the total number of videos on the site is now up to over 760. Additionally, as I noted in the review of ALS Angels I wrote just a few days after my previous update to this review, the people at ALS Scan/Angels have done as I had expected and gone back and made most of the HD videos at ALS Scan available in both 1080p and 720p HD (720p is still the most common format at Angels).
Previously those added at ALS Scan before November were "only" available in 720p.
Without a doubt ALS Scan and ALS Angels - but the former in particular, mostly due to the faster update pace - remain two of my favourite solo masturbation and lesbian sites. The babes, old and new, and the sex are just so damn hot.
Update, November 16 2008
Two things in this review update. First of all the permanent video archives have been extended further back, so that all videos added since April last year are now available (the old rotation system was explained in the original review below). That means the total number of videos is now up to almost 600, and there's still a new one coming every day.
The second thing that may be of interest is that they've once again boosted the already exceptional video quality at ALS Scan. The 720p HD option is still available, but for the few latest of the recently shot videos there's now a 1080p (1920x1080), 8000 kbit option as well - and it sounds like this option will be coming for all new videos (they still mix in rereleases of older, pre-2007, non-HD content though).
Another thing some of you might like is that videos released since last month have had a streaming Flash player option, so no waiting for those 400+ MB (720p) or 900+ MB (1080p) downloads if you want a quick peek first, or just don't care about razor sharp video quality.
Oh, and as for the content itself - it's still among the hottest solo masturbation and lesbian content out there in my opinion. And yes, the site design (except for the content preview images embedded within it), still provides that bewildering, antiquated contrast to the state of the art content quality and gorgeous models.
Update, May 21 2008
Damn, time flies by fast. I was just going to do a quick update of the info box above, but then I noticed it's already been a year since my last full update.
Since I still have an active ALS Scan membership, I figure I might as well add a few comments here as well then.
As usual nothing fundamental has changed - and neither should it on such a fantastic site - but the member area did receive a small design makeover recently, meaning that rather than looking like something that was slapped together in the early 90s, it now looks like it was made in... well, the late 90s.
Alright, I guess I had already accepted that the site design itself was an odd contrast to the gorgeous model and the fantastic technical quality of the content, and that hasn't really changed all that much with the new design change. Outdated basic looks aside though, it has actually improved navigation in a few vital areas, most notably photo gallery browsing (assuming you use that instead of just downloading the handy high resolution zip files).
Another thing worth mentioning is that a larger portion of the video content is now in full 1280x720, 3500+ kbit HD quality - in fact everything is now shot in that format, although the older content that is regularly reintroduced into the archives is "only" reencoded in a 720x540 format.
Oh, and one thing I definately shouldn't forget to mention, it looks like the old system where new video content only remained on the site for a month (some of it to be reintroduced later as indicated above) is gone. No videos have been removed from the site since December, which means the total number of videos on the site (regular archive plus "Director's Hottest Videos") is up from a previously steady (but constantly changing) 90-100 to more than 240 at the time of writing.
Quite an improvement as the old system was frankly a bit strange, and I had never seen anything similar used on other sites.
Overall I guess my final conclusion will - not surprisingly - have to be that ALS Scan remains one of the abosolute best porn sites mixing solo masturbation and lesbian sex (with frequent lesbian fisting, of which I can never get too much), all with beatiful, 100% natural, clean shaven girls.
Update, June 3 2007
Apparantly the good people at ALS Scan decided that the fairly significant video quality boost we got back around March 1 wasn't quite enough, so instead we're now getting full HD widescreen quality at 1280x720 for some of the new videos (only six of the daily videos for the last month so far, but I'm hoping and expecting they'll pick up the pace soon enough, not that all the 720x540 videos are exactly looking horrible).
Two different 1280x720 versions are available, one in DivX format at 3500 kbit and one in the H.264 MP4 format. I'm not really up to date on the technical details on various codecs, but I think the last one has a reputation for offering the sharpest looking videos, asssuming it's coupled with a high resolution (check) and a high bitrate (check, though none of the players I tried could give me an accurate number, probably a tad higher than the DivX version).
The MP4 version is also a big larger in filesize, but on my shiny new 22" widescreen Samsung monitor at 1680x1050, I was hard pressed to see any difference between the DivX and the MP4 versions, even with side by side comparisons of the first minute of a couple of videos - obviously they both look fantastic.
Still, it's hard to complain about having options, even though it looks like overkill in this particular situation.
The third option is a DivX version at 852x480, 1500 kbit. The filesize is about half that of the other two, but clocking in at over 200 MB for these typically 15-20 minute videos, it's safe to say that ALS Scan has now thoroughly joined the sites who estimate that the vast majority of their members (and potential members) are on broadband connections. And I guess that's probably a fair assumption these days.
Now if only they would do something about their site design. It's quite odd to have a site offering the best possible technical quality (for both videos and photos), and yet their website looks like it was designed in the mid-nineties (which it was) and hasn't had a makeover since (which it probably hasn't). But I guess that could be intentional, it does set it apart from all the glossy site designs of this millenium afterall. I still think it's ugly. Even with all the pretty girls around to divert attention.
Update, March 6 2007
A little over a week ago the video quality at ALS Scan was improved from an already great looking 640x480, 1400-1500 kbit to 720x540 with bitrates between 1800 and 3000 kbit (DVD resolution is 720x480, the 540 vertical resolution here is because the ALS Scan videos aren't shot in widescreen but regular 4:3 format).
So basically, they look pretty damn good now - though I'm not entirely sure what's up with the fairly large variation in bitrate between the eight latest videos (one was 1800 kbit, another 3000 kbit, the rest somewhere in between). Maybe the ALS Scan guys are still in the process of trying to find the best balance between quality and file size.
In any case, even at 1800 kbit "crystal clear" is a pretty accurate description of the image quality.
As before a segmented 320x240 version is also available for all videos, in case your Internet connection isn't quite up for the task of downloading those high quality 250-400+ MB files.
Original review
If you've spent some time looking around this site it should have become quite apparent to you that a very significant number of the sites holding the top spots here at Mike's Porn Site reviews belong to categories like lesbian, masturbation/toys and the pretty broad label "babes".
Sure, those categories may be among my own favourites, but even if that means I might on occasion end up being a tiny bit biased, there's no denying that few sites - no matter the category or niche - can match up to the likes of FTV Girls, Sapphic Erotica, Club Sandy etc. when you factor in all elements and look at the whole package (which obviously doesn't mean you should pick one of those if you're after hardcore anal porn or, say, midgets in pantyhose).
Well, here comes another one to join the cream of the crop in the toys/lesbian/babes categories - and it's not a new one either, it's been around since '96 in fact - I've just been a bit slow in adding it to my review schedule, even though I was in fact an extremely satisfied member for a few months earlier this year.
ALS Scan - All Ladies Shaved... Scan. A magnificent and constantly growing collection of photosets and videos with some of the hottest 18 to 20something babes in adult industry, including many of the East European ladies I rave about on every occasion I get, and who have already done their's to crank up the entertainment factor on several of the other sites I've reviewed before.
There are no cocks at ALS Scan, but there are shaved and extremely inviting pussies in large numbers, dildos and other toys in all shapes and sizes, frequent lesbian and solo fisting, public nudity, a bit of squirting and even peeing, varied locations (including many scenes shot at exotic locations like St. John, St. Martin and Jamaica), very high production values, and great technical quality on both photo and video content.
(Member area screenshots)
The model archive at ALS Scan holds around 170 beautiful clean shaven pussies, attached to around 170 equally beautiful babes.
Chances are, as mentioned above, that you'll recognize a fair number of them - Sophie Moone, Sandy, Jo, Nella, Taylor Rain (who looks just as great with a huge dildo buried in her ass as a real cock), Sarah Blake, Jana Cova, Justine Joli, Charlie Lane, Amy Lee and several others - and the rest of the lot generally doesn't fall far behind, if at all, in terms of beauty and raw sexuality.
I've already mentioned that you'll be seeing these babes in a mix of lesbian and solo videos and photosets, but at least for me there's been one girl in particular where I've gotten something at ALS Scan that I've never seen her do before.
Nella - one of the most popular and frequently returning models here - has always been one of my favourite girls at Sapphic Erotica (where she goes by the name Jackie), but while she's been the one lending a very experienced hand in the lesbian fisting scenes there, at ALS Scan she's on the receiving end in several insanely hot videos. Those scenes alone damn near made the membership more than worth it for me.
You get five new photosets and seven new videos every week at ALS Scan, and the total number of photos is currently at around 30,000 (the most popular models have from around 10 to 30 pages of photos, around 30 on each, and the pages can be downloaded in zip files).
The videos are unfortunately on a rotation system which means they are only available for four weeks after release. The best ones (currently 50 of them, including all those fisting videos with Nella I mentioned above) are moved to a permanent "Director's Hottest Videos" section, but judging by older photosets, and knowing that many if not most of them came with a video, I've definately missed out on many videos I would have loved adding to my own collection.
Still, the video collection doesn't disappoint (how could it really with more than 90 long videos at any time and a new one coming every day), it's just this annoying feeling of knowing that you might have missed out on a bunch of hot videos with your favourite babes by not joining a year ago.
I guess from the site owners' shrewd point of view that's a nifty little trick to keep their members rebilling. With such a spectacular site it's a bit hard to get really mad at them though.
Moving onto the technical quality, the photos - even those dating back several years - look spectacular at a 1400 pixel resolution. All the recent photosets additionally offer a huge 2700 pixel version.
The videos look just as great with the single file high option in Windows Media format at 640x480, 1400-1600 kbit with a lower quality multi segment option in DivX format at 320x240, 700-1100 kbit.
The tour pages of ALS Scan - and the member area design as well for that matter - may look a bit amateurish and late 90s style, but don't let that fool you. Everything else at ALS Scan is top notch and the video and photo content extremely hot.
This one might just edge out FTV Girls and In Focus Girls as my favourite hardcore masturbation and lesbian site. More varied than the first, which has only limited lesbian and fisting content, a bit more extreme than the second - the dildos are usually (a lot) bigger at ALS Scan. It's up there with the both of them for sure.
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