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Mount Equinox

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Mount Equinox certainly looks like a blast from the past - the design reminds me of 1999, but I'm hoping that the content won't! The member's area is laid out somewhat oddly. The video section is right at the top, urging me to click it to look. Scrolling down past are the photos, although there are a ton of different little section boxes that just make me wonder if it was really necessary to list them all out like that.

Once I went into the video section, I saw something that really made me think I stepped in a time machine: "NETSCAPE OR INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 OR GREATER REQUIRED, WEBTV WILL NOT WORK! " Holy crap! This is set up as randomly as the main page, and I can't help but notice that they misspelled length on every single full length video. Most of the listings on this page are for third party feeds and content - in fact, there's only one section that seems to actually be on Mount Equinox itself.

Once I loaded up a streaming video, I could at least breath a little sigh of relief. I was looking at a 640x480 WMV with a 2.08 mbps bitrate. That certainly wasn't what I was expecting with this design. Bringing the video up was a bit weird though - I had to pick a photo, then choose view the video set. Usually it's vice versa. The vidcaps don't look too bad, although the right click is disabled (hate that) so I'd have to estimate that they're around 1200x800.

Updates for this section seem to come in batches every month or so - looks like they add a few videos on that day and then nothing for some time afterwards. I can only get to 22 videos, although I'm assuming they're just limiting the amount you can see (all are within the last 4 months) Oh and a quick note - this is the section right underneath the pink Mount Equinox video section. The pink one is just an upsell for AEBN, the one right under that actually gets you 20 minute videos on the site. There are 54 third party feeds on this page, with a rather impressive range of niches.

Now to take a look at the photo sections. The first two links go to newsgroups - the next seems to be the actual Equinox photos. I'm beginning to hate frames almost as much as I hate flash - maybe navigation elements with F should be forbidden in general. This is a confusing setup, much like the rest of the site. I thought the groups with the models might have actually linked to a damn photo set - but other than being the most prominent aspect of the navigation, all it does is show a beveled model pictures (seriously...bevels...). You'll need to go with the drop down selection right in the middle and ignore the sidebar pretty much. Unlike the videos, the photos are pretty small, although the quality is good amateur. However, that part is hard to see when I'm squinting to take a look at a 307x382 photo.

There is a zip file for only the 5 latest sets, and with no dates I'm not sure how often this section updates, but there's around 460 galleries here. They do have a search feature, although it seems to be for video search...in the photo section. There are 28 third party feeds and content areas with the rest of the photos.

Mount Equinox is not impressing me with any part of the site. Although I was glad to see that the video quality was up to modern standards, the rest of the site made me feel like I was back in the dark ages of internet pornography. Plus, 90% of the content is non exclusive, and even the material that's on the actual site is just a grab bag of gay porn. It's not bad, but there's not really that much of a hook to keep me around compared to other sites.

Things we liked:

• Good quality video

Things we didn't like:

• Bothersome navigation
• No video downloads
• Small photos
• Slow and sporadic update schedule

Membership prices: ( billing by Independent)

• Trial: $3.95 (3 days, recurring at $24.95 monthly)
• Monthly: $24.95 (recurring every 30 days)

Reviewed on 2008-07-21

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