Big Boob Pass (aka Brazzers)
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Category: Site Networks
Additional Keywords: Big boobs, natural boobs, fake boobs, themed big boobs sites (teens, milf, tit fucking, secretaries, doctors etc.), butts, pornstars
Reviewed May 28 2007
(Subsequent updates in 2007, 2010 and 2011)
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| Content Quantity: |
19/20 |
Content Quality: |
20/20 |
Updates: |
10/10 |
| Entertainment: |
14/15 |
Navigation & Design: |
10/10 |
Download: |
5/5 |
| Value for Money: |
15/15 |
Reviewer's Tilt: |
4/5 |
Total: |
97/100 |
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Site NetworkIncludes 28 sites, 3 reviewed and listed below |
| Pricing: |
1 month recurring: $24.95
3 months non-recurring: $49.95
12 months non-recurring: $95.40
2 day trial (limited access): $1 |
Update, September 18 2011:
I'd like to start this review update with mentioning a really cool feature I've never seen before. Integrated Flash players with a "timeline" system that shows thumbnail images when you hover over the progress bar, is something I've come across on several sites, but in the Brazzers network they've taken it one step further and linked the timeline segments to category tags as they apply within a given point in a scene (note that the implementation of this feature appears to be ongoing. It's available for all the 2011 videos I checked, but going further back it seems to be a bit random which scenes have it and which don't).
So below the Flash player - which is capable of showing a range of video qualities from low resolution up to 1080p HD where available (you'll need a very fast connection to stream HD videos of course, just as it's a bit pointless to choose 1080p if you don't plan on clicking the full screen button on the player) - you'll find an alphabetical listing of relevant niches/category tags, and when you hover the mouse over one of the segments shown beneath the tag, a small screenshot pops up just as an indicator shows where in the movie that segment is, and you can then click it to jump straight to that point.
Irrelevant for people who always watch a porn scene from start to finish, but a truly useful and unique feature for those of us who frequently just go hunting for "the best parts" of a scene. However, I did come across cases where the tags used for a given segment were a bit of a stretch - or just plain wrong. Overall though, when tagged properly it's an inventive feature right up there with some of the best interface related things VideoBox has done over the years.
But moving on, like most other sites or site networks with reviews I've updated one or several times, not much if anything has changed in the style the content here, it's still a pretty wide range of themed hardcore porn (big boobs still very much in focus on several but far from all of the network sites, and so are specific outfits and/or settings) with an even wider range of pornstars - many of them well known and the majority, based on the ones I recognize, American (though I did spot some familiar Eurobabes here and there as well).
Also as usual one thing that has changed is content volume, as Big Boob Pass/Brazzers keeps growing at a quick pace - one to three new scenes every day - and the total amount of scenes across the network currently weighs in at over 4,200 (plus a fairly generous load of 3rd party streaming content easily accessible through various content pages). And unlike one of my previously favourite networks, BrainPass, I believe all the content at Brazzers remains exclusive (except for the clearly marked 3rd party streams).
In my previous review update I mentioned HD content. A couple of things have changed for the better there - volume first, there are now over 1,740 HD scenes in the network - and the way it's included in the membership second. Previously you had to remain a member for a frankly plain unreasonable period of time (six months) until you were granted access to HD downloads, or pay a rather exorbitant sum for individual HD scenes, but I've now had confirmed that this was changed a few months ago and all members now have access to 720p and 1080p downloads from the moment they join. Much appreciated, and probably needed from a business perspective seeing as HD is so common these days.
Download speeds - obviously very important if you plan on downloading those large 1080p videos that, for the longest of them, can weigh in at as much as 3+ GB a piece - have improved further since my last visit, and I've faily consistently been seeing 2-3+ MB/s on the scenes I've downloaded and at times they even hit the maximum 6 MB/s my 50 Mbit connection is capable of, meaning it only takes around 10-15 minutes or less to download a 2 GB scene. No buffering hiccups during 1080p Flash streaming either.
However download speed is obviously always subject to not only the speed of your connection, but potentially also other factors that might be impossible to control, such as the routing from your computer to the server, or the servers possibly running into capacity problems at times. So all I can do here is relay my own experiences.
With the changed policy to HD downloads, a truck load of varied exclusive hardcore content, and improvements like that very nifty tag based timeline system on the Flash player (so nifty in fact that I actually ended up streaming rather than downloading most of the time, and I'm otherwise among those who still typically prefer old fashioned downloads. And obviously still do for videos I deem worthy of keeping in my collection), Brazzers is now definitely a site network I'll wholeheartedly recommend.
I've added two points to the content quality score - given that such a large percentage of the content is available in HD - boosting the total score from 95 to 97.
Update, January 5 2010:
I've been meaning to update this review for months, and should have thought about it even earlier, but kept postponing it for no particular reason. Well, here we are, finally, more than two and a half years after my original review (and the brief update added just a few days later), and what I'm looking at now in the Big Boob Pass member section is a network that is - as you would expect or at least hope given the time that's passed - a lot bigger and with improvements to site interface (pretty much a complete redesign) and video quality.
Let's look at one thing at a time. The Big Boob Pass/Brazzers network now contains 28 sites - quite a step up from the original 15 back in 2007.
Not all sites are equally large, and some are no longer updated (one of the three I reviewed, Jug Fuckers, hasn't been updated since July 2007 for instance, the other two are still going strong), but altogether the network in its entirety currently has a quite respectable ~2,900 scenes, and looking at the content update dates for the network as a whole, you usually get two or three updates every day.
Definitely not bad for a network that's still mostly dedicated to one main topic, boobs (and to a smaller extent also butts), albeit across numerous sub niches (milf, blowjobs, anal, group sex, interracial etc.).
With regards to the member area redesign, it's been so long since my last visit that I only have the screenshots I took back then to remind me of how things used to look, but I would say there have been definite improvements in terms of navigation and content presentation and not just the visual design.
As has become common there's now also an integrated Flash video player, and it appears to work for most videos all the way back to 2005 (some of the old ones do come up with a "stream not found" error, and additionally some of the very earliest videos in the network - from 2004 - appear to have gone entirely missing, even as downloads. Only a useless Flash trailer exist for those, along with, not suprisingly, numerous member comments asking where the hell the full videos have gone).
The network also has a very active forum if you've got questions or just like to read what other people has to say.
Video quality on downloads was improved in Spring 2009 from the original 640x480, 1500 kbit, to a somewhat sharper 768x432, 2300 kbit.
They also started adding HD versions at the same time, but if I've understood this system correctly the 1080p versions will only become available if you stick around for six months, or if you pay $8 - per scene!
720p Flash streams are available, and at the time of writing I can also download 720p, 8000 kbit WMV files, but there's a banner on the front page in the member area suggesting this is just a holiday offer (albeit one that should presumably have experired January 4th, yesterday).
There are still relatively few large site networks out there with HD video on most or all sites, or even any at all (so far the 21Sextury Network is the only one I've reviewed), but when you do have them, not permanently offering at least the 720p downloads to all members seem like quite a rip off to be honest.
In total currently 423 scenes out of the ~2,900 in the network are available in 768x432 format as well as (theoretically at least) HD.
Download speeds have also proven great on the 25 videos I've downloaded so far (it's something I've only touched upon in a few other reviews and review updates, but it's obviously becoming more important these days when you've got HD scenes weighing in at sometimes 2+ GB) - around 1.2-1.5 MB/s on my 50 Mbit line (which is theoretically capable of 6 MB/s, but that only happens once in a blue moon, porn or otherwise).
So overall, aside from those disappointing HD limits or exorbitant extra charges, Big Boob Pass is still a really great network. If you're just looking for more or less any hardcore video content - or have a special thing for Eurobabes like me - you'll want to look at one or both the two larger networks above this one on the Site Networks category page, but if you're a boob lover (and I'm most certainly that as well) the Big Boob Pass is definitely a very good place to be.
(The new member area design)
Update, May 31 2007
Alright, it's three days later, I've reviewed a few of the individual network sites and I've in general had time to watch a fair bit more of the content. And we're back to what's happened with network reviews before - I'm gonna knock off a couple of points. I really ought to start saving the main network review for last rather than do it before the individual site reviews.
In any case, I've added a point or two under cons and while Big Boob Pass is still a fantastic network for boob fanatics (or just anyone who don't mind watching beautiful girls and popular pornstars with big tits having sex), I'm lowering a couple of the individual scores and we end up with the total score at 95/100 rather than the original 97/100.
Pros & Highlights
+ The Big Boob Pass network gives you access to not just the nine sites currently advertised on the tour page, but 15 in total (plus a number of bonus video feeds). Nine of them the variety of big boobs sites shown on the tour, the remaining six are a mix of a few more boob-centric sites plus a few dedicated to well shaped butts rather than boobs (and that includes a fair amount of anal sex) as well as one "big dicks" site, "Pornstars Like It Big"
+ Let's focus on the boobs here though, that's probably the main reason why you should be interested in this excellent site network. Each of them (the sites, not the boobs) is based on a specific theme, like teens, milf, interracial, tit fucking, natural tits (plenty of those on many of the other sites as well) as well as a few slightly more unusual and creative (and pretty damn hot) themes, like secretaries/female bosses (Big Tits at Work), teachers/students (Big Tits at School), a two girl prostitute service and last but not least, busty doctors fucking their patients.
Pretty much all the sites in the network are quite large, most of them with between 40 and 80 videos and photosets but also several with 100-130+
+ If you've already taken a look at the Big Boob Pass tour page I probably don't need to assure you that we're generally talking about really big tits with many of the ladies on these sites. But just in case the big tit fans among you are having doubts. Don't. Yes, I guess they've sneaked in a C cup here and there, but that's more than made up for by the load of double Ds and larger
+ Plenty of more or less famous big titted pornstars are making one or several appearances across the network. Also lots of sexy ladies I can't recall seeing before
+ Lots of hot sex (mostly one-on-one guy/girl, but also an occasional lesbian scene as well as FFM), and usually not of the rather bland variety you tend to see on many reality sites (and I guess some of these sites falls under that label). I personally wouldn't have minded a bit more anal though
+ Regular updates on most of the sites (only one seems to have died entirely late last year). A new scene added usually once a week, sometimes only every other week. With so many sites it does mean you can expect something new on at least one of them every day
+ Very good quality on most of the videos I checked out. 640x480 on most videos it seems, bitrates between 1000 and 2200 kbit. Many of the older videos (and the occasional more recent one) still look decent at around 480x320, 1300 kbit, though I did also find quite a lot of less impressive 320x240, 500 kbit videos among the oldest on several of the sites. Considering how many 640x480 videos you do get though, the 18/20 score is probably still fair (afterall, just six months or so ago I would probably have given 19 or 20 for that).
With some exceptions among the oldest all videos are available in two formats, wmv and mpeg (wmv looking better, and with smaller filesizes to boot), and can be downloaded in either a single file, in typically four to eight segments or even in small one minute segments.
+ Aside from the videos, many scenes also come with a load of photos (and often somewhat less interesting video stills as well), often in excess of 300. Photo quality varies a bit, but usually around a pretty decent if not particularly impressive 600x900. All photosets can be downloaded in zip files
+ Good looking and consistent site design for all the included sites. Great in terms of features as well, both for user friendliness when browsing and downloading/viewing videos and photos as well as some extra useful additions like a rating system, an option to add any scene to your personalized favourites page and last but certainly not least, a cross site alphabetical model/scene index and search box
Cons
- I think I recognized some of the early scenes on at least a few of the sites, meaning that there's a good chance not all the content is exclusive (likely those without photos but only video stills). Hardly much of an issue though, as chances are you'll have seen at most a handful or two of the videos unless you've been trawling the boobs category at AEBN for a few months
- Watching a guy lick pussy is for some reason a major turn off for me, and unfortunately it looks like they've decided to include that particular part in the vast majority of the scenes. Good thing I can always skip past that minute or two in the videos.
Since this is obviously a personal issue of mine I haven't let it have any impact on the entertainment score, and it is afterall usually just a couple of minutes out of every 30-50 minute scene
- Not a lot of other negative things to say really. Big Boob Pass is not just a great boob site network, it's a great network, period.
Somehow though, as has happened a few times before with site network reviews, I do feel that the total score ended up a few points higher than I really feel it should when I look at the individual sites. But again there's that tired old phrase "the whole is bigger than the sum of its part".
Well, I don't know if it really is, but the whole is most definately great here, and I kept looking over the scores without being able to find one that I really felt I could justify lowering. At least not taking into account what I've handed out before and the somewhat top heavy scale I use (yep, that one has come back to bite me in the ass a few times now, bad planning from the start, but too late to fix without giving myself a major headache)
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95+ Excellent
85-94 Very Good
75-84 Good
65-74 Acceptable
-64 Don't Bother
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