review of Active Duty, 2010-02-09

Dink Flamingo's Active Duty features cute all-american military guys from 18 to around 25. It's one of the few miliary sites around that doesn't use the same licensed feature DVDs as all the other miliary sites. Active Duty shoots their own videos and pics, and while they do sell DVDs and pay per view of their content, this is the only website that offers this content in their member area. I really like what I'm seeing on the tour, so I'm to take a closer look inside the member area of Active Duty!

The member area is a sort of combination situation. There is plenty of young men in uniform in solo and hardcore shoots - some are pics, some are videos but this site also REALLY wants members to buy DVDs, so expect to find a fair amount of links to DVDs for sale on galleries, next to videos and on the main member page.

Each week, 6 new movies are added on the Streaming Videos of the Week and the old movies are removed. That means that while there are only 6 videos listed on the page at any one time, there are 6 new vids to watch every week. Each video is available in 2 sizes - 300k and 800k. The sound is good, the quailty is pretty good, but I do have one complaint as these videos are not downloable. Oh, btw - it's worth mentioning that the videos in this section pop up in a new small window. If you click a link and nothing happens, you might have to disable your popup blocker.

The Video Clips section contains about 40 2-minute Quicktime clips. Each clip is basically a trailer from a DVD that the site has for sale, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth watching - they are.

Something I liked about the streaming videos and some of the clips is that the interviews are long enough to make it very clear that the guys are regular military and amateur guys. These are no pornstars. They sound like straight college boys next door.

There is one more place to watch videos here - inside the Active Duty Live! section. In addition to several weekly live shows featuring the models from the movies and pic sets, there are two full years of live shows archived, apparently 3 - 4 per week, which means over 300 of them. The archived live shows are shown at 320x240 with a bitrate of 141k, and they look pretty good - better than some shows I've seen and with good sound, although maybe a little on the loud side.

As far as I can tell, all the videos here use DRM, but you only have to input your info once and it is then tranferred to all the videos you watch.

There are over 400 Active Duty photo sets. Each pic is of one of the very appealing Active Duty models, and as far as I can tell, every gallery is taken from a DVD scene or is of a model from a DVD - and every gallery has a link to buy a DVD, as well. The pics are shown at 480x360, which is on the small side, but not too small. It appears that the pics may be vidcaps, but if so, these are good quality vidcaps - they have the same quality as a good amateur quality digital still.

There is plenty of both solo and hardcore action in the pic sets and the videos. There's also plenty of yummy all-american military guys 18 - 25, some in uniform. The performers definitely do have that all-american look to them, sort of masculine and cute at the same time. Like most guys in their age bracket, the Active Duty guys are horny as hell and their cocks stay hard whether they are fucking, sucking or jacking off.

Members get access to some other stuff including Dink's Diary, which is a blog. While there's some interesting stuff here about the site and models and shoots, Dink's Diary seems to update only once a month or even once every two months.

In addition to the Active Duty content, members also get access to 17 feeds. These are found in the Streaming Theater section. There are a variety of niche from twinks to bears, and there's even a military feed. Each feed offers 4 full DVDs and updates with new vids once a month. I wish the broadband videos were bigger than 320x240 but there is enough to keep members pretty busy.

If you like cute amateur military boys, the guys from Dink Flamingo's Active Duty are sure to hit the spot. While it's true that this site is fairly heavy-handed in trying to sell their DVDs, it's also true that members get 6 fresh videos to watch each week, although the previous vids are removed so there are only 6 at a time and please note that the videos can't be saved. Still, 6 full scenes per week is pretty good stuff and there are hundreds of archived live shows plus several live shows of the Active Duty models several times a week and hundreds of pic sets. While this site does have some problems, overall Active Duty has a lot to offer and is well worth checking out!

Things we liked:

• Exclusive content
• Huge collection of pics (and sets)
• Regular updates
• New vids every week
• Several weekly live shows with actual Active Duty models
• Large collection of archived live shows

Things we didn't like:

• DRM used
• Videos could be bigger
• Videos not downloadable
• Pics on the small side

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