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Type of Site: Magazine
Address: www.hustler.com 

Price: 
$34.95/month
Date of Review:
April, 2009
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Hustler is the well-known men's magazine that has been, as this site proudly puts it, "hardcore since '74!" If you're interested in more information on how it all started, check out the 1996 movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. But of course all that was yesterday. This is the internet generation, baby. So what are they doing online?

Well, if you want the magazine they have an archive of them, at least the pictorials. Top girls and quality photography too. However, at least for now they only had issues going back to 2000. So if you're keen on looking at some of the vintage stuff you may be disappointed.

However, Hustler as a label has grown to encompass a lot more than just a magazine. In particular, they've put out a lot of movies, including popular series like Hustler XXX, Real College Girls, Ghetto Booty, Asian Fever, and Jail Babes. If you're a fan you'll see all of these titles, and more (including the ridiculously popular Sarah Palin parody starring Lisa Ann), represented here. The site boasts 4 000 scenes. And since you can download them and they are exclusive to this site, they're probably the main draw.

We weren't overwhelmed by how the video was presented. It's not bad. You select a DVD and then pick a scene and are immediately taken to a Flash player. From there you can choose a stream or pick a download option, either Windows or QuickTime, in a bit rate of 1200, 768, 384, or 128 (ouch!). That sounds OK, though even at the high end it's not really killer quality. But in some cases the best option, the 1200 kb/s, wasn't available. Then for some DVDs there were no thumbnails or scene information for the individual scenes. There was just a blind link, sometimes with the lead performers name, to download the scene. Which was kind of frustrating.

The navigation was pretty good, which is important because the main site is made up of 24 individual sites (for example: Beaver Hunt, Hustler's College Girls, and Busty Beauties) that are effectively integrated into the main area. Some advertising for sites like Brazzers and Nubiles appears on the main page. There's a performer index but it didn't seem complete when we tested it. Then there's an odd special model index of big name Hustler stars that we couldn't really see the point of. Or you can search by DVD title, category, or activity. We couldn't see the difference between these last two, except for the fact that the activity index operates from a drop-down menu and has more keywords. In any event, we mainly stuck to the DVD listings.

While not a bad site -- how could it be with this much content and talent? -- overall we were left a little let down by this one. They've obviously been busy making changes and when we visited it was still being billed as a "new" layout and design. If you read older reviews on other sites you'll find a lot of complaining about DRM. Apparently that has all been removed. On our visit we didn't encounter any. But there was plenty of evidence that the site is still a work in progress, which is weird given the label and the resources behind it. The site index page only had links to 15 sites, while the sidebar site menu gave links to 24. Some of the photos were missing (we got database error messages when we clicked on the thumbnails). The video is not standardized, either in terms of quality or in presentation. Not having vidcaps for all the scenes is just crazy. And the best quality downloads, 1200 kb/s, aren't fantastic either. Then there is the fact that the magazine archives only go back to 2000. Are the rest being added? We don't know. The update schedule is also kind of wonky. When we were there it looked like they were adding six or seven updates every couple of days. 

Throw in the really hefty price point and we can only give this a cool recommendation, instead of rating it a must see. However, it does look like they're putting some effort into it and we suspect they'll have all the bugs ironed out pretty soon, making it a lot better. God knows they have the content, it's just a matter of packaging.

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