Frat Boy
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Reviewed on 02 Oct 2007
Fratboy is a site brought to us by 8teenboy, which is a division of Helix Studios (8teenboy, SpankThis and hotstuds access to all sites included in membership). The focus here is on 18 - 24 year old boys in action, the newer videos are mostly hardcore while the older ones are mostly solo with a few blowjobs as well as a couple of guys jerking off together. The tour doesn't say much, but it seems pretty self-explanatory and looks almost exactly like the member area.
Both the tour and member area of Fratboy starts on page 1 of the video listings. There is a link to customer service at the top of the page, a link to Movie Listings, which is actually sends you to a page that shows each movie by DVD and also offers the DVDs for sale, and at the very bottom are links to the players you might need to view the vids. On the left are links to upcoming the companies movies that are soon to come to DVDs and below is a link to sign up for a mailing list and an ad for another site. Each video is listed with several thumbs plus links to the content and a link to the DVD title so you can view all the scenes from that title.
There are currently 90 movies inside Fratboy. There are no descriptions nor are the models' names always listed for each scene, however the dates are listed on every vid, which is appreciated - and it shows us that although some months have a number of videos added, some months have none. In fact, the current month has only 1 video added. Each video is offered in 2 sizes of WMV that are labelled 640x480 and 320x240, although some of the newest videos are actually shown at 720x480. They are also offered in 1 size for iPod in m4v format. All the vids are full movies and can be downloaded or streamed as you prefer.
The first videos I tried were a couple older ones at the 640x480 size. It's bitrate was a mere 452k, which is suitable for 320x240 but just wasn't good enough for the bigger screen size. Not surprisingly, these are fairly blurry as 452k just isn't a high enough data rate to produce a clean, sharp video at that size. I was hoping that the 320x240 vids would look a little better, but the bitrate was lowered to 245k, so don't expect any miracles.
As we move to somewhat newer videos, I checked a couple more movies, and they were actually a little lower quality than the older ones. It is not till you work your way toward the new videos that the bitrate and quality improves - the latest vids are shown at 720x480 with a bitrate of just over 2 Mbps, and while they look better, they don't look as sharp and clear as one would expect for their size/bitrate. In fact, the iPod videos I watched, while on the small side, were the sharpest and clearest videos I found inside Fratboy.
Each video comes with a set of photos. These are vidcaps, and while the older ones are pretty low quality, the newer ones look good for vidcaps. The pic sets come with from just under 20 to over 40 pics each, all browsable in thumbnailed galleries.
While the Fratboy models are cute amateur college-type guys, and lots of us would love watching them stroke their hard cocks, the quality of the movies here just doesn't do it for me. I'm not that picky, but some of the videos here are pretty blurry - all except for the iPod vids. While the monthly price is reasonable, I'd rather pay more for access to sharper, clearer videos. While some sites offer lower quality vids so you'll have to buy their DVDs, Fratboy doesn't really push the DVDs that hard, so there's no way to know if this site is a glorfied sample video site or if the owners just aren't aware of the bitrates and quality seen on a lot of other sites of this type.
Fratboy offers the most for those who don't mind the smallish screen size of the m4v clips, which are the sharpest vids in the site. Those who prefer sharper vids also have the option of watching the 640x480 movies at 50% so that they are shown at 320x240, which will make them appear somewhat sharper. There is a pretty good amount of content here, all college aged amateurs, but the quality of the vids isn't the best and the site seems to update rather haphazardly rather than by schedule. Fratboy may be worth joining if you're a fan of Helix or some of the guys on the tour really turn your crank.
Things we liked:
- Content is all from Helix Studios
- Videos are downloadable
- No DRM used
Things we didn't like:
- WMV vids could be higher quality
- Updates are very irregular
Membership prices: ( billing by CCBill Paycom )
- Monthly: $29.95 (recurring every 30 days)
- Monthly: $34.95 (non-recurring)
- Quarterly: $69.95 (non-recurring)
Freddie | 18 Mar 2007
My rating:
Kinda crap site, compared to lots of other really good College sites out there this one hasnt got much. Just check out Corbin Fisher and you can see what i mean.
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