The site offers over 100 DVD-quality movies at a low price. How do they do it? According to their FAQ, they rely on word-of-mouth-advertising rather than other costly advertising methods, thus keeping their overhead to a minimum.
The site is nicely categorized in a variety of ways for your surfing pleasure. You can view DVDs by genre-- from “sex pigs,” to interracial, to glory holes, to rimming, to DILFs, and everything in between. Some categories, like amateur, have more DVDs to choose from (around 15-20), while other categories are lacking (Asian only has one DVD as of this review).
Each DVD has a slew of key words associated with it (hung, amateur, hairy, etc), so when you do a search, you're more likely to get the type of content you're looking for.
DVDs are offered streaming or fully downloadable, with no DRM to deal with. Considering what they're offering, and how some sites are starting to operate nowadays, that's a notable feature.
Every movie is divided into shorter clips, with a nice display of thumbed screencaps to preview before you download. The clips are pretty damned big. The smaller ones I saw were anywhere from 30-50 Mb, while many were well over 200 Mb and occasionally over 400Mb.
The download speed is very good ( we clocked up to 750Kbytes/sec ), but if you do not have a high speed broadband connection, get ready for some long downloads. The quality is excellent so it is well worthy the wait.
What's really nice about Gay Videobox is that, despite potentially long downloads, they've done a really nice job of making the site as video-friendly as possible. Along with plenty of screencaps, you get a very cool feature where you can drag any screencap from any scene into a video box, and start your movie at the scene that looks most appealing to you.
You can also download and view movies at low, medium, high, and DVD-quality/connection speeds/file sizes, so even dial-up users get good use of the site. All movies also have descriptions for your convenience, and they even include the cast names so you can find new favorites.
The site is very clean, very easy to navigate, and has great search functionality. You can search by keywords and titles, studio, star, or series. Every section has the ability to sort by name, date, or popularity.
You also get nice tabbed browsing for individual movies that show general DVD information and description, or you can choose to view the scene index and screencaps. You can also add DVDs to a “My Favorites” area.
The attention to detail is excellent. The update schedule-- they update every other day with a new full-length DVD-- is consistent and a great value. I did experience a few broken thumbs when clicking on the scene index tab, but clicking on the x-ed out thumb did take me to functional screencaps.
Gay Videobox offers an incredible value at an incredible price, and they're not pulling your chain. I loved that I didn't feel bombarded by ads and third-party content, and the site was so easy to navigate that the long downloads of the bigger files sort of didn't matter at that point.
Videobox Men also has a premium option for only a little bit more, $14.95 per month, you can download High Definition DVD quality movies 720 x 480 at 3.69Mb bitrates - remakable quality !
While some categories may only have one DVD, many of the categories have several to choose from. The update schedule rocks, so even if you don't find 800 Asian DVDs, you'll find plenty of other hot hardcore in most niches to keep you happy.
Sites like this make me happy, and restore my faith in porn's ability to actually deliver great quality and great service at a great price... I highly recommend Videobox Men.
