AEBN (Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network) has, to the best of my knowledge, the largest collection of online porn - and damn it's large alright. Thousands upon thousands of DVDs from hundreds of porn studios, covering almost every imaginable niche.
Videos can either be streamed with a pay per minute option, rented as streaming videos for a short period, or downloaded in a high quality DRM protected version that will play for 7 or 30 days.
If you're just looking for any random hardcore video porn pay per view is hardly the cheapest way to go, but if you're after something specific (like nearly every single movie your favourite porn star has ever made for instance), AEBN is definately one of your best bets.
(Read the pros and cons below)
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Site info updated November 11 2008
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Reportedly 65,000+ DVDs
Windows Media (wmv), Flash Player (recent videos) and RealPlayer (older videos) available
Best quality (streaming): 640/720x480, 2000 kbit
Quality (download): 640/720x480, 2000 kbit
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Pay per minute:
1000 minutes for $84.95
500 minutes for $49.95
300 minutes for $29.95
200 minutes for $19.95
100 minutes for $11.95
60 minutes for $8.95
30 minutes for $5.95
15 minutes for $3.95
The following prices may be higher for certain titles:
48 hours rental (streaming): $7.95 per DVD
7 day download: $9.95 per DVD
30 day download: $12.95 per DVD
"Own it", permanent download: $19.95 per DVD
XXX 2 Burn (burn to DVD): $24.95 per DVD |
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You won't actually see the name AEBN when you visit the site from one of the links on this page. The "Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network" have a number of different "theatre" user interfaces - I chose to link to a neat looking black and red one titled "Porn Pay Per View".
Nothing but colors, name and the movies or movie categories shown on the front page vary between the different threatres, the actual content, features and layout are exactly the same, and user logins are of course universal. |
Update, November 11 2008
Despite my persistent main complaint about pay-per-view porn, the relatively high prices - depending on how much you use the service and whether you can settle for the fairly decently priced minute packages or regularly choose the expensive download options - I still find myself using AEBN several times a month, as it's still absolutely second to none in terms of volume, and (aside from spending a fortune on the physical DVDs) it remains the no. 1 site when you you want to watch the latest, or oldest, videos with your favourite pornstars.
A new integrated Flash Player option for many recent videos now make a fine alternative to using Windows Media Player, and even if your connection can only handle one of the lowest of the four different video qualities, it will still fill out your browser window rather than play in a small area of the screen, it will just be significantly more pixelated and blurry than the higher 768 and 1024 kbit options.
A fairly recent change I'm not particularly fond of is that the latest videos from certain major studios (Evil Angel, Vivid, Jules Jordan and several others) are often released without pay per minute options (which tends to be added a month or several later), so you'll have to fork out for one of the download options if you want to watch.
On the other hand I guess these new releases might not even have made it onto the site in the past, and obviously no one is forcing you to pay for anything at AEBN.
Overall AEBN remains one of my favourite sites, even if my opinion of pay-per-view porn - as indicated above - isn't solely positive.
Oh, and so you might stand a better chance of making up your own mind about pay-per-view, AEBN links on this page now give you 10 minutes free of charge - just follow the instructions on the page.
Update, February 3 2007
Two new features have very recently been added to AEBN - an "own it" download option is now available for seemingly most movies (as you can no doubt imagine, checking all 65,000+ DVDs one at a time didn't really seem like something I would want to do). Unlike the 7, 14 and 30 day downloads, there's no expiring movie license, it's yours to keep.
The other new feature is called "XXX 2 Burn" - I haven't tested it myself, but it's supposed to work by downloading and installing a small Windows program (there are detailed instructions, links to the program and everything else you need on the site) that checks which XXX 2 Burn movies you've purchased (done with a shopping cart on the site as usual), and burn them to blank DVDs.
Since only a very limited number of DVDs is available in this section of the site so far, and I guess there's nothing stopping you from just burning one of the "own it" downloads, I assume the XXX 2 Burn DVDs are actually the full uncompressed original DVD files, and if that's the case you're looking at something like 2 to 4.7 Gb for each DVD. Needless to say that's probably not a feature those of us with connections slower than 8-10+ Mbit will be particularly interested in using.
Still, I imagine AEBN is doing this to be among the first in this no doubt growing area of high quality video content delivery.
Pros
+ A staggeringly huge collection of DVDs from hundreds of porn studios (ranging from big names like Vivid to the smallest and most obscure niche studios).
For obvious reasons I haven't quite been able to verify the the claim of 65,000+ DVDs (I contacted their support department to get this number as it's not available on the site), but from the time I've spent in the AEBN archives I have no real reason to doubt it
+ Around 200 new DVDs added every week
+ Powerful category and search options make it (fairly) easy to find what you're looking for, and the ability to add everything from DVDs to individual scenes, porn stars, directors, studios etc. to a favourites page is an invaluable help as well
+ At least three different quality options for the vast majority of the movies ensures that broadband and dialup users alike should be able to find a suitable quality
+ The download option is pretty neat if you find movies you want to watch in better quality than what you can get with the streaming videos. It's not exactly cheap though, and be prepared to download files sometimes larger than one Gigabyte
+ Screenshots of DVD covers (front and back) available for all movies
Cons
- If you're on a fast broadband connection (2-4 Mbit or faster) you may find yourself longing for a better quality on the streaming videos. A 720x480, 2000 kbit version is available for some videos, but still only a tiny fraction of the total number of movies
- Some of the oldest videos are only available in RealPlayer format (of which I'm not a fan as the player is a big, bloated, adware infested annoyance)
- Pay per view isn't exactly cheap compared to regular monthly membership sites. If you just want as much hardcore porn as you can get for you money you'll be much, much better off with a site like VideoBox or VideosZ.
If on the other hand you're looking for eg. as much as you can find with your favourite porn stars you'll love AEBN. A few examples. Jenna Jameson: 105 DVDs, Silvia Saint: 160 DVDs, Taylor Rain: 159 DVDs.
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