This site currently features exactly 3495 titles (almost 20,000 scenes) at the time of review, but with no photo galleries as you might expect.
All videos are available in the Flash Player and WMV formats, displaying usually at 640x480 at their highest quality (2400kbps). The premium membership gets you access to higher quality movies 720 x 480 @ 3500Kbps. The site is generally updated 5 times per day!
This is one of those sites that if you don’t know it, then you really have got a lot to learn. Many pretenders have emerged on the scene in the last couple of years ago, attempting to dethrone it as the king of all DVD download sites.
Whilst a couple have gone pretty close, VideoBox always finds away to somehow put a little more distance between them and the chasing pack. They’re always looking to improve and innovate, not being content with being, and I don’t hesitate to say this, the best.
Since their launch in December 2002, they have built up a stunning and almost unmatched archive of DVDs. That archive is only speeding up too in terms of its size, as they are now adding new titles at a rate of five new titles per day, compared with one per day which they settled for throughout most of their life online.
This rate is almost unprecedented, but the sheer breadth of the titles, stars, niches and genres covered is frightening. And all this is without a DRM in site.
Personally speaking, I was never quite sure about the price that saw you paying almost double the monthly fee is you wanted to watch the ‘DVD quality’ versions which only come up at 640x480 anyway, but now that the archive numbers almost 3500 (which it will pass the day after I write this review anyway!) it is well worth the money.
VideoBox has an excellent, nice and easy to use interface. One of the best we have seen anywhere! The new interface that this site has taken on in the last couple of months takes many of the best aspects of its previous navigation and adds several wonderful new features.
The highlight of this is the ‘drop and drag’ scene selection system, meaning that by clicking on a frame of any video you want in the screenshot section, you can start the video almost exactly where you want it to start. This unique system of video browsing is a wonderfully useful tool and quite unlike anything you’ll ever see.
Elsewhere, this site completely excels as well. The download speeds are still absolutely excellent, with update information being similarly impressive as well.
The various indexes for genres and stars are really well organised with a member rating system employed well so that it doesn’t intrude too much if you’re not interested in the views of others. It used to work really well anyway, but somehow manages to be even better now.
Looking at the rebirth of
Video Box you really do have to wonder if the opposition will ever catch them. It’s doubtful. Not content with just having lots of DVDs, VideoBox is determined to continue to better itself and make the lives of its members that much easier.
The DVD selection is, of course, fantastic and almost completely without fault. But the navigation has lifted this site into another dimension yet. For sheer value, scope and innovation, VideoBox cannot be praised highly enough.
Membership pricing is as follows:
$15.96 ( monthly recurring - standard resolution vids)
$19.17 (monthly recurring - DVD resolution vids - Special Discount Price )
$79.96 (Annual non-recurring)
