HD Porn review

Ever since the concept of High Definition video ever came into contact with the brainstorm R&D departments of porn’s largest production houses and distributors, fans have been aching for a site devoted entirely to presenting the clearest, most colorful, most dynamic adult videos possible. Sure, you could go out and buy every new Blu-Ray release of an adult fuck flick, but that doesn’t provide the instant gratification (or ease of discreet storage) that digital video files downloaded from a website do. Could HD Porn be the site we quality-whores have been dreaming about, a site that delivers a nonstop assault of multi-thousand pixel pornographic renderings of the human body engaged in all its carnal glory? Shit, dude, I fucking hope so! So many sites advertise their huge HD archives to justify a high monthly membership price, only to throw about a dozen HD scenes the fans’ way and laugh all the way to the bank. With a fairly low monthly membership cost of just $19.99 to begin with, HD Porn won’t be laughing too hard, if at all; that is, of course, unless the site is so great and so heavily loaded with stunning HD visuals that it races to the top of the highly influential Mr. Pink’s Top Sites list and sees the teeming masses flocking to sign up immediately. Will that be the case or will HD Porn be just another cash-grab complication on the matter of High Definition porn?

Pros:
Hey, guess what? There are HD videos inside HD Porn! That much is obvious, right? Well, whatever you were expecting, the HD videos available here look very, very good hitting resolutions of 720p in both downloadable and streaming form; the downloads look substantially better than the streams, but both present the action in clear, highly detailed frames.

You want a constant influx of new HD material to fap your brains out to? HD Porn has it covered with daily updates to the already impressive archive of almost 500 scenes, about half of which are exclusive to this very site.

HD Porn hosts a great roster of top-tier porn talent, providing each model with a profile and bio that, however brief, is a good start to helping you learn a bit more about who you’re going to be spending so much time ogling for the next 20-odd minutes.

Pretty much every scene on the site comes with an attached photo gallery that, like the video options, presents everything in high-resolutions and looks fantastic. You will undoubtly find enough detail in a 1365x2048 pixel photo of your favorite pornstar.

Cons:
Only about half of the near-500 scene archive is exclusive and features HD download and streaming options; the rest is presented in unimpressive 640x360 resolution and, when compared to the HD offerings, look very, very weak. The exclusivity of content is a strange issue as it’s difficult to determine whether the HD scenes advertised as exclusive are totally exclusive to HD Porn or whether they’re just exclusively available here in High Definition.

Upon selecting any scene and hitting its viewing page, the video stream automatically loads. This may not bother some members, but if you’re in the habit, as I am, of simultaneously opening multiple scenes of interest from the main update list, you’ll find a cacophony of obnoxious porn music and pre-scene interviews soon filling your ears and clogging your bandwidth.

Currently the only two ways to browse the archive, the chronological update list and model roster are very helpful, sure, but nowhere near as helpful as a category menu or keyword tagging system would be. It’s more difficult than it should be to track down a scene that caters to your preferred pornographic interests.

Something is lacking here at HD Porn, something that all HD porn sites should consider an essential component of a successful website: reliable high-speed servers. While it’s great that we can now view porn in almost ridiculous detail, it’s a drag that file sizes are still well over 1GB for 25 minute scenes; even more frustrating is when said files take hours to download on even the speediest home connection.

Conclusion:
What good is a revolution if it’s only halfhearted? Now that High Definition has overtaken the home video market, it’s thrilling to see porn attempting to keep up with mainstream movies. The very fact that a site called HD Porn exists should be a good sign of the great things to come. Instead, it’s a fairly weak attempt at using what is a decent amount of HD content to buff up an otherwise average hardcore porn site. Yes, HD Porn has a roster of some incredible performers and quite a load of content currently available, but until the majority of the archive is in HD resolutions, the appeal of the title is close to negated. Who wants to join a site called HD Porn just to end up getting pissy over weak-looking videos half the time? Instead of throwing down the full monthly membership cost and potentially regretting it, consider the two-day trial membership, which, allowing full access to the site and costing $4.99, is a much safer way of finding out whether you’ll be a negative nilly like I apparently am, or impressed with what HD Porn does right; which, incidentally, it really does do a great job with.