Site: www.pornstarxs.com Cost: 30 days - $24.95; 90 days - $59.95; 300 days - $99.95 Genres:: Various, Anal, Anthology, Asian, ATM, Blondes, Blowjobs, Brunettes, Compilation, Facial, Gangbang, Hardcore, Lesbian Condoms: Sometimes One-line summary: A fully loaded porn DVD site that lets you download and keep anything you want. Reviewer: Mark Buckingham

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Want popular porn DVDs? Tired of the video store's paltry selection? Sick of the limited streaming-only options available out there on the Web? PornStarXS.com may be the answer you're looking for. The free site preview boasts all this info, and a slew of content to boot. You can do and see just about everything, short of downloading the actual videos. Check out the various sorting functions for genre, porn star, most popular, and personal faves. See just how much there is; where other sites give you just a glimpse of their very best on a smattering of pages, PornStarXS.com takes you right up to the precipice. It's up to you to commit the dollars to jump the rest of the way.

In keeping with the virtual video store theme, the photos here aren't really the focus. You can trudge through slideshows of screencaps in about the same time it takes to download the whole video, so why bother. The omission of standard thumbnail galleries in this area and requiring the clickable slideshow, not to mention that it took me a while to even find a pic page makes it an almost entirely skippable feature.

But who cares, this is a site for video fiends! The older stuff on the site plays by older rules, being broken up into a few chunks per scene, but they all download fine, with or without a download manager. The newer stuff sports some really robust options, including WMV, MPEG, and MP4 formats (for iPod and PSP viewers), and all-in-one videos. In addition, the Windows Media versions are available in low, medium, high, and super resolution (high res is about 512x384). The movie cutter is nifty as well, allowing you to choose what scenes you want your movie to start and stop with, then download your edit.

There were a few problems, but they're pretty minor overall. For one, about a dozen or so videos that I tried downloading (out of maybe 150; there are hundreds more I didn't have time to try) didn't recognize my login/password. Not a huge failure rate, but worth noting. Also, some of the older videos can be fairly tame compared to modern fare. Fewer positions, shorter runtimes, less risqué behavior, smaller cumshots back then stand out when compared to the harder, noisier, sploogier eruptions of the newer content, which aligns with modern standards.

There aren't any bonus sites, per se, but this is one of those huge repository sites that will likely take you a year and four hard drives to get though. Despite the occasional technical hiccup, it's a stellar page for fans of specific gals (Amy Reid, Monica Sweetheart, Jana Cova, Mister Marcus, et cetera), and if you haven't decided on a favorite genre pretty much everything's covered here, and is a joy to watch, by and large. It really is a good site for just about anyone. From Horny Holiday to Bend Over And Say Ahh to The Passion of the Ass, the masses will be pleased.