Naked Sword
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Reviewed on 31 May 2006
Naked Sword is a sort of hybrid site - it contains 50 movies with scenes you can watch if you have a membership and 171 movies with scenes you can watch as pay per view videos. You'll find videos from such truly outstanding gay porn studios as Falcon Studios, Raging Stallion, Colt Studio Group, Titan and Lucas Entertainment. There's also some fun exclusives for members including porn gossip shows and blogs. And there are plenty of sample videos from the pay per view movies that members get access to. Let's log into the member area and take a closer look at Naked Sword.
On the left of the main member page you will find plenty of links including Membership Titles for those who want to get right to the stuff included with their membership. There are also sections like Best of Rental, Renltal Only titles, Live Shows, Original Productions or you can select your favorites from video themes. There are also some fun exclusive features.
There are currently 300 titles listed in the Membership Titles area, including a large number of categories from many studios. These are all titles you don't need to pay a rental fee to watch. Many of these titles only a small 80k version of the entire video in Real Player format. These videos are shown at a screen size of around 195x140. While these are dialup speed, they offer good sound and if you are okay with smaller videos, they can be a lot of fun to watch. Don't expect quality to be better than average on these smaller videos. But don't worry, there are high quality videos, too.
Most of the video listings include some kind of pics, generally vidcaps, to help give you an idea of the action inside the videos. For the most part, these pics are pretty small but are still helpful to decide which scenes and videos to watch. You can also find stills in the Dream Team section, which you can read more about below.
If you join to watch movies rather than to rent, the most important feature in the member area is probably advanced search. You'll find advanced search in the upper right corner of the page just below a search box. What advanced search helps you to do is to find movies that are membership only films - or if you want, rental only films or all films.
You can search any of those options by star, director, niche or studio or you can just leave off further search options and list them all.
Remember to select "films with scenes only" or you will end up with a large selection of videos with pics from the scenes but no actual videos. I didn't find any small videos listed here - only videos that were a minimum of 350k streams, most offering higher quality downloadable versions as well.
A lot of the rental only films include either a PREVIEW MOVIE, which is a trailer. In fact, if you feel like browsing through all the rental movies, you may find quite a few short videos to watch you would have missed - although some movies don't offer a sample or small version video. So this is like hunting for buried treasure, with more interesting results.
The newest scenes and movies at Naked Sword are pretty nice to watch. They are available in WMV and stream at around 698k. There are some pretty big videos in the newer releases, but watch out as my average download speed was only 140k. If you stick with the streaming videos you will find them much faster, so download only if you are a patient person or don't mind watching a streaming video while you download. One of the full videos I downloaded was 564 mb and took around an hour to download but was good quality once it was finally downloaded.
I think it's worth mentioning here that the downloadable WMVs use DRM so expect to have to put in your username and password the first time you play one of these videos.
Beside the porn videos, members get access to some special features. First, there's the Tim & Roma Show. This is a fun look at the adult industry and some are downloadable in 2 formats - Real Player or iTunes. There are interviews with some great stars and producers. Real videos are available in 3 speeds - 56k, 150k and 350k. There are 68 Tim & Roma shows, spanning from 2006 back to 2003 and they are shot exclusively for Naked Sword.
Another Naked Sword exclusive is called Wet Palms. It's a combination of sexy porn video and soap opera, partly done for laughs and well worth checking out. Available for Real in 56k, 150k and 350k, there's also a 562k WMV format which you can stream or download. Beside these two shows, you'll find a porn blog at Naked Sword and some more features as well.
One of my favorite features is the Dream Team. Every month, a pornstar is chosen and featured. You can read his profile and bio plus check out some stills. At the end of each year one pornstar is chosen to receive the Naked Swordsman award. The pics are pretty nice and you can see the Dream Team for 2003, 2004, 2005 plus we're halfway through 2006.
The Naked Sword member area can be rather confusing. It took me several minutes to get oriented, and even then it's hard to guess with the movies whether you will be getting a high quality full video or an 80k stream until you've checked the movie's page. Each video can be bought on DVD, so in a way those 80k videos are like full length preview movies.
If you like browsing through porn movies, don't mind smaller videos sometimes and enjoy special features like the Tim & Roma Show or the Dream Team, there's a lot inside Naked Sword to keep you busy.
I think Naked Sword has a lot to offer although there are not as many high quality videos for members as I would have liked to see. There is a good selection of gay porn, including a lot of lower quality full videos, special features and previews of rental videos, the montly price is on the high side. If you are comfortable with the monthly price, why not check out Naked Sword? The tour shows you all the titles and studios members get access to as well as more about each special feature.
Membership prices: ( billing by CCBill )
- Monthly: $39.95 (recurring)
- Quarterly: $89.95 (recurring)
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