GayDemon's review of Raw Rods

Raw Rods is a new site, and there are a couple things that really caught my eye about it. One is the site's niche - very hot amateur black men barebacking. We're talking athletic ebony hunks with great bodies and big cocks, and the small screenshots for each episode makes the action look very promising.

The other thing that stood out for me is the content, and the reason is that the videos are offered in full HD - you can tell that because each episode listing includes the size of the videos.

The Raw Rods member home page is simple and easy to use. The navigation links run across the top of the page, and below them are 5 thumbs, each linking to an episode. The site is just opened in late Aug 08, and since updated with 1 new episode per week.

Each episoe page includes the names of the models, a juicy description, links to each gallery page and a link to download all the pics in a zip file plus the video links.The videos are offered in a streaming format or can be downloaded in either WMV or Quicktime format. But if you're looking for the best this site has to offer, you'll be downloading the 1280 X 720 WMVs. Why? Because they're huge and the quality is very high due to the bitrate, which is around 5 Mbps. We're talking full HD and very good stuff here. The only downside to the 1280 X 720 vids is how long they will take you to download - each movie is over 500 Mb, and a couple are just under a gig.

For those who don't feel like waiting to download the HD vids, the rest of the offerings here are also pretty good. There's two smaller sizes - 768x432 and 512x288. Both of these sizes are offered in both WMV and Quicktime, and they look good, although I did see a little artifacting in one of the smaller Quicktime videos. Even better, they're downloadable full scenes.

None of the videos inside Raw Rods uses DRM, so whatever you download is your to keep. Or if you prefer not to save the videos, you can watch the streaming video, which is the smaller Quicktime videos. These start playing instantly and, like the other versions of the videos, play smoothly.

The pics are probably vidcaps, but HD vidcaps are a lot sharper and clearer than regular vidcaps. In fact, the quality of these pics are good - good enough that they could be digital stills that are shot along with the videos. One episode's pics were pretty dark, but even so they were good quality - the only issue seemed to be the lighting.

If you love watching big black cocks pound tight ebony asses with no condoms, Raw Rods delivers. The men are well-built and very horny, the action is hot and condom-free, and the best-quality videos are in high definition and look great. The catch with this site is that it's fairly small - with 13 videos - but they have consistently updated with 1 new episode every week since the opened. We'll check on this site in a few weeks and let you know how the updates are going. And luckily the price is pretty reasonable, so if you love black barebacking and want to go download the HD videos and see how the updates develop, Raw Rods is worth checking out.

Things we liked:

• Exclusive content
• Black men barebacking - horny theme
• Excellent quality videos
• Videos are downloadable
• No DRM used

Things we didn't like:

• Site is small and needs to grow
• Smaller vids have some artifacting

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