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| Content Quantity: |
17/20 |
Content Quality: |
16/20 |
Updates: |
10/10 |
| Entertainment: |
11/15 |
Navigation & Design: |
3/10 |
Download: |
2/5 |
| Value for Money: |
10/15 |
Reviewer's Tilt: |
2/5 |
Total: |
71/100 |
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Site info help
Site info valid on date of review
| Pictures: |
2,000+ photosets (that's a guess, check the site cons below for details)
Resolution varies, 1200 px on recent sets |
| Video: |
Approx. 350 teen videos are available on an external site (limited membership included with Club Seventeen) |
| Bonus: |
Lots of 3rd party plugin content |
| Pricing: |
1 month recurring: €29.95 (approx $38)
3 months recurring: €79.95 (approx. $102) |
Pros
+ A large(?) (but extremely confusing, see cons below) collection of teen photosets and videos. The photosets cover a wide range of different subcategories - anal teens, black teens, dirty teens, glamour teens, lingerie teens etc. - and seems to span all the way from recent content with wellknown teen babes, back to "the best from the 80s", complete with girls in headbands in legwarmers in neon colors.
It does say on the top of the tour page "Since 1975", so I'm inclined to believe Club Seventeen is a more or less official site for an old, but still active, porn studio. The offsite video section (based on DVD series) indicates the same.
+ Lots of variety (though I think I already covered that above), and ranging from both solo softcore to hardcore guy/girl
+ No shortage on hot teen babes either (and if you go back to the oldest content the 80s hairstyles and outfits are good for a laugh)
+ Daily content updates
+ Special features like girl of the week, fuck of the month and special requests. Not sure if there's really anything particularly remarkable about these features, or if they are just a way to make things a bit more interesting
+ Recent photosets look great at typically 800x1200 pixels
Cons
- I don't think I've ever been so confused by a site interface before. Inconsistent page design, new and old sets sometimes mixed together, small pic/text boxes advertising the latest (or perhaps upcoming?) special features mentioned above.
It's really hard to actually put into words what exactly makes this so confusing, I've seen plenty of sites with more categories, their own versions of special features etc., all easy to navigate. On Club Seventeen it's just a mess for lack of a better word. That alone doesn't make it a bad site, but it certainly takes some getting used to (and I just couldn't at all).
Just as I'm writing this I discovered there is a sitemap though, which at least gives a decent overview of Club Seventeen
- I honestly don't have a clue how many photosets they have, thanks again to the messy interface and inconsistent gallery/archive design. I've actually had to go and check out what a few other review sites said, so I'll take them on their word when they say 2,000+.
It doesn't really seem to me like there are that many (after a bit of frustrating counting and multiplaction in some of the categories), but I guess there might be once you add it all up. All those daily updates gotta go somewhere afterall
- The technical quality of the older and oldest photo content range from decent to pretty damn horrible, which isn't entirely unexpected given the age of some of these photosets
- The video section is actually located on another site, Seventeen Cinema, but thankfully your login does include access here. Well, at least around 350 videos. They do mention that paying an extra €19.95 will let you "watch the entire movie archive", whatever the hell that means
- Many if not most of the videos are only available in RealPlayer format (and I still refuse to install that bloated junk player). The ones in wmv format are supposedly in excellent quality though, 720x540, 2200 kbit. I say supposedly because my modest 1 Mbit connection can't really handle streaming videos of that size, and while they are supposedly downloadable by choosing a link titled "open in external player", that just gives me an error page from the browser.
I can't rule out that's a problem on my end, but it nevertheless means I haven't been able to view any movie content at all. On the other hand, you could argue anyway that it's not actually part of Club Seventeen, although (limited) access to Seventeen Cinema is included in the membership
- Too expensive
- Just a plain frustrating experience (for me at least). There's some good stuff here, no doubt about it, but it's just too hard to find and everything is a mess (wait, didn't I say that already?)
(Member area screenshots)
Click here to visit Club Seventeen
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95+ Excellent
85-94 Very Good
75-84 Good
65-74 Acceptable
-64 Don't Bother
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