Type of Site: Studio
Address: www.wickedpictures.com 
Price: 
$29.95/month ($4.95 3-day trial)
Date of Review:
February, 2007
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

We have a lot of sympathy for traditional porn movie studios. They are, to some extent, part of a twilight industry. Direct download is the way of the future. In fact, some commentators have suggested that DVDs, of the mainstream or porn variety, won't be with us much longer. We'll just be watching streams or saving the stuff on our hard drives.

Such an outcome is not unlikely. Which puts a studio like Wicked in a tricky position when it comes to their official site. Their main business, after all, is not selling memberships to this website. Their main business is selling DVDs. So there's a bit of a conflict there.

Make no mistake, Wicked produces some first rate movies, with terrific production values and top-name stars. They work hard putting out a quality product and it shows. None of that godawful POV amateur gonzo shit that you'll find all over the Internet here. These are real movies, and we love them.

This site, however, wasn't as rich an experience as we were hoping for. For the most part it's set up pretty well. They just did a re-design and we thought the navigation worked really well. There's also a very detailed search function that helps a lot. 

The presentation, however, didn't blow us away. The photo galleries are stacked with production stills. These aren't always the most interesting pics you could imagine. Just pics snapped during the filming of the movies basically. And the size is nothing to get excited about either, at 600x900. The movies, yes, are streaming only. You watch them in an Adobe Flash Player. Now this did not come as any surprise. We knew beforehand that there was no way Wicked was going to let us download their titles. Even the older ones. And to be honest we thought the Flash player worked really well. Each movies is broken down into scenes and you can jump around within scenes quite easily. The problem was that the picture was only just average. There are three settings, S, M, and L. Plus there is a button that supposedly takes the movie out to "full screen." But this is not the case. It just opens the picture up so that it fills the full screen of the player window. Which is not full screen. And the picture quality, while good, is not crystal clear at that size. Put simply, we've seen better.

The amount of content they had up was OK. 1718 photo galleries. 376 movies. Unfortunately we couldn't tell you what the update schedule is. Whatever it is, it's irregular. But they seem to be adding a few titles every week. And a lot of these are their latest, biggest name titles too. In fact, where we found the site fell down a bit was in the archives. We went looking for a number of older movies (because we are, to be honest, older porn fans) and found stuff listed but without any clips or photos. Perhaps they will be adding more of the backlist as time goes by.

So . . . great movies, in fact some of the very best in adult entertainment, that you're not going to see anywhere else online (legally), but nothing they're going to let you keep. Nice stuff, but in our opinion just a bit pricey for what you're getting. The trial, however, is an option. It's a full trial (at least at the time of this writing), which they can get away with since you're not getting to download anything anyway.

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