Type of Site: Video Network
Address: www.premiumpass.com 
Price: 
$29.95/month
Date of Review:
March, 2007
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

AUGUST 2007 RE-VISIT

This is just a quick update a few months after our initial visit because they'd added a bunch of new stuff (as promised). These sites include Cum In the Face, the Jenna Haze official site, and Jules Jordan's official site. Scoring Jenna and luring Jules Jordan away from the Evil Angel network are major coups. Right away they add loads of high-quality, professionally produced content. Plus the content is exclusively licensed to this network. If you're a fan of either Jenna or Jules we would recommend this network very highly, especially since they do have a lot of other stuff as well. Like the pro sites offered by BrainPass, neither of these sites seemed to have much personal involvement from their name-brand stars, though this is apparently still in the works in Jenna's case.

So definitely if you're a Jenna or Jules fan this network is now the place to be. Here's hoping they can keep signing up content this good! They've certainly come out of the gates setting the standard pretty high. 

MARCH 2007 REVIEW

Premium Pass, as the name suggests, is a network. The next question is "What kind of a network?" And the answer to that is "A network kind of like BrainPass." That isn't just because it borrows a lot of the same format as BrainPass, with regard to the way the video is presented in particular. Indeed, some of the videos we've downloaded from BrainPass in the past year have had Premium Pass watermarks on them and the two labels share office space. What's different is that it's also organized as a network of semi-independent sites (like Porn Access or Deluxe Pass). However, once you're into the main members area the navigation and most of the downloads we did were from a unified layout. Which is the way we like it anyway.

So, here's what you should know:

(1) As noted, it's set up kind of like BrainPass. So you get lots of good download options with the video. The best is a full scene version in Windows Media at 2000 kb/s and 720x480. Or each scene is broken down into clips, and you can get high and low res mpeg or Windows Media files, or iPod/portable files as well. The site is also organized like BrainPass in that everything is broken down into scenes, not the DVDs the scenes are taken from. There is a search function but it didn't seem to be fully operational when we visited. Some big name models weren't listed in the model search and some of the category searches seemed to bring back results that were clearly not relevant. 

(2) Not a ton of content yet, for a network that is, though we hasten to add that our visit was only a couple of months after it launched. Still, there's a fair bit here. Just not much that you haven't seen before. Taking the tour will give you a good idea of the kind of content you can expect and how it's laid out.

(3) Two sites are advertised as "exclusive" parts of the network, and these are the potential difference-makers. One of these we have under review: Jules Jordan's Ass Fixation. We're not sure how 100% exclusive it is (see our review for a fuller discussion), but it does feature lots of quality content from this director. "Coming soon" when we visited was JennaHaze.com, which is a name we've really been looking forward to! Who the fuck hasn't? Unfortunately, we can't tell you anything about it because it wasn't up and running at the time of our review.

Mainly this is just a fairly typical video download network. It's still new so it needs to beef up the content and fix some of the little glitches. The "exclusive" material is very promising though. Ass Fixation has some great stuff and our fingers are crossed for the Jenna Haze site!

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