Type of Site: Video Network  
Address: www.americanvice.com 
Price: 
$9.95/month
Date of Review:
August, 2007
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

On the one hand this is yet another video download site. On the other . . . 

The splash page announces that this is "Otto and Audrey's American Vice Rebel." And there's a picture of a rather funky-looking pair apparently dominating some girl. Are they Otto and Audrey? Who the fuck are Otto and Audrey anyway? We didn't see any About page explaining. Is this something we should already know? Hmmm.

Well, in case you were wondering, Otto is Otto Bauer and he is married to Audrey, who is Audrey Hollander (2006 AVN Performer of the Year). Together they run their own porn production company called "Supercore." So now you know.

Get inside and other mysteries await. Apparently American Vice Rebel is powered by "Rebel Search Technology." This mainly seemed to be an advanced form of category search rather than anything totally unique. And for some reason it didn't work for us unless you started it from the Home page. Otherwise it looks good, but we couldn't figure out why they didn't also have a performer index, especially since individual performers are all cross-linked from each of the scenes they appear in. Or maybe there was such an index and we didn't see it.

Another mystery, while we're on the subject. How often does this site update? The short, accurate, answer to that is "frequently." But we can't give you a more precise answer because the date stamps were all wonky. When we visited they had a whole page of new updates dated a week in advance. They also seem to only date the latest DVDs every three or four days. We couldn't figure it out. What we can tell you is that we visited one day and they had 890 DVDs, and when we visited again four days later they were up to 915. So they are bulking up fast.

Here's what really stood out for us as different from most of the other DVD download sites out there:

(1) Editorial quality. Every scene in every DVD comes with a written, opinionated commentary. And each DVD comes with an "Editor's Choice" for best scene in that DVD. Now we didn't agree with everything we read (don't be dissing Ashlyn Gere you bastards! we still worship that woman!) but it does represent a real effort and the opinions are well expressed and professionally informed.

(2) Some odd niche titles. Let's face it, the main thing you want to know about a DVD download site is whether they've got some stuff that you haven't see anywhere else. And since you can browse all of these sites for free, it's pretty easy to check this for yourself. This is what we encourage you to do. For what it's worth, we saw some more obscure fetish titles than we've seen elsewhere. Do a search for Cooking With Mistress Ambra at your own peril! What kind of weird shit is that? In addition to this strange stuff there are also a few different classic and softcore labels. No question they have a lot of movies that are also available on other sites, but we were pleasantly surprised to find quite a bit of material we hadn't seen anywhere else. Apparently Otto and Audrey do have some exclusive arrangements (including all their own Supercore stuff), and that's great news for porn hunters.

(3) Interesting trial membership offer. The monthly rate here of $9.95 is ridiculously low, but it actually gets even better. You can sign up for free and enjoy five free downloads right off the bat. Kind of hard to knock that.

Aside from this, it's pretty much what you'd expect. You can download everything, without DRM, in three formats (all Windows Media): Med (500 kb/s), High (1000 kb/s) and DVD (2000 kb/s). About the only thing we missed here was the "edit your own clip" function that's used by sites like VideoBox and Adult Rated

Good deal? Well, duh. Of course it's a good deal. In fact it's a great deal. You're getting nearly 1,000 DVDs (more by the time you read this) for $10. And it even looks good when placed head-to-head against the competition, especially given some of the more obscure titles they've tracked down. It's still kind of new, which might explain some of the glitches we experienced using the search functions, but otherwise we expect this to be one of the major players in the field very soon, especially if they can keep up the mad update schedule.

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