Gay Cinema Club
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Reviewed on 06 Jul 2007
The tour of Gay Cinema Club starts off with pics that I happen to know aren't taken from any movies - they're from pic sets that webmasters can buy from a content broker, and they're older pic sets at that. The reason I mention it is that you won't see those models inside the site - they're there only for design purposes. The site offers exclusive daily updates, access to 6 bonus sites and thousands of hardcore full movies available in DVD quality.
When you log into Gay Cinema Club, you are taken to the first page of video listings. In addition to the 4 most recent updates, the page also shows the most downloaded videos, top rated videos, the most recent videos you yourself have visited and the videos you have listed in your favorites. Funny thing is that I can't find a way to rate the videos - only the pic sets.
The member area lists the episodes in the same format as the tour does - one large thumb, four small thumbs, a link to the movie and a link to the vidcaps, the title and movie length. One difference is that in the member area, there is a date the movie was added to the site, but though there is a different video at the top of the first page, there are the same number of updates there were yesterday. I suspect that a script shuffles the order and dates the top one for today's date, the next one yesterday's date and so on.
There are currently 49 full scenes inside the member area of Gay Cinema Club which adds up to around 11 or 12 DVDs. All movies are offered as full scenes - no clips are available. For those who prefer streaming, the videos are WMVs in your choice of High or Low and streaming or downloadable. The high versions are shown at 640x480 at 732k and while some looked sharper than others, they all looked pretty good. One of the downloadable versions was smaller than the streaming version, but it was the only one I found like this. The low versions of the videos are suitable for dialup users with a little patience who will find the extra wait worth it when they see the quality of the vids, which is better than a lot of movies I've seen for dialup users.
For those who would like to watch the movies on their handheld portable devices, each movie is offered in 3 versions - an MP4 version for iPod, an MP4 version for your PSP and a 3GP version for your cell phone. The MP4s looked and played well for me and were a good size for those wishing to watch porn on their MP3 players.
There is something missing for those who prefer to stream their videos rather than download them - controls. You won't find the contols on the page right under the video. You can contol it by right clicking directly ON the video, but for those who simply want to be able to pause and fast forward eaily, I'd recommend you try the downloade link, which will allow you to play the video directly in your Media Player.
For those who would like to search the videos by keyword, there is a handy searchbox located at the top of each listing page. I tried it using the term "uncut" and got a bunch of results - no way to easily tell how many as the results don't list a number of pages or scenes. And want a laugh? The dates on my results say that the first page of results were added to the site NEXT month :D
Gay Cinema Club uses no DRM and all movies downloaded quickly and had good sound. Here's something for you Firefox users. Downloading movies in Firefox doesn't work. Sure, it'll download something, but it's not something you can play on your players. To save the videos, make sure you're using Internet Explorer.
Some issues are apparent here. While downloading a single movie I was unable to go to another page in the site and was also unable to download 2 movies at one time, although I was able to download a movie while streaming another movie. Then there's the update dates being there for show rather than being the actual dates the videos were added. Also I would have liked to know the name of the studio and stars of each movie.
Is Gay Cinema Club worth joining? Well, if you like the samples of the videos shown on the tour, possibly so. These aren't exclusive movies, but they are downloadable and the quality, while a far cry from the DVD quality promised on the tour, is fairly good. Also for those with an iPod or other handheld player that works with MP4 or 3GP format, there are 49 good qualty full scenes ready to load into your device. And there are 6 bonus sites. This is a good site for iPod and other MP3 player users but while it's an okay site for the rest of us, if you are looking for a huge site or a site with high quality videos, this may not be the site for you.
Things we liked:
- Videos are downloadable
- No DRM used
- iPod and cell phone vids available
Things we didn't like:
- Fake dates on updates
- Streaming vids have few video controls
- Could only do 1 download at a time
Membership prices: ( billing by Paycom )
- Trial: $5.95 (3 days, recurring every 30 daysn at $34.95)
- Monthly: $34.95 (recurring every 30 days)
- Quarterly: $59.95 (recurring every 90 days)
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