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htb066
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11/08
Posted - May 28 2009 : 8:48PM
i haven't been able to access videobox.com for the past few hours. anyone else having that problem? sorry if i posted this in the wrong section.
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - May 28 2009 : 8:52PM
It's up now, but barely...taking forever to load screens. It was down for me most of the afternoon.
However, I was surprised to see that nobody else had posted anything on it so assumed it was just me. Obviously....not.
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Marv Montag (@PornOfYore)
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2/09
Posted - May 28 2009 : 9:28PM
As a semi-off-topic question for those of you who are members, do you guys know if they ever got the "iPod" versions of their scenes to actually work on iPods?
I was a member for a couple of years, and they added this feature--but I had to convert each one myself after getting it b/c it was sized incorrectly and wouldn't load onto the iPod directly.
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - May 28 2009 : 10:50PM
I don't do it often, but I can easily view their "iPhone" format via my iPhone 3G or my iPod Touch via WiFi. Works faster via WiFi of course. I wasn't aware the feature was ever broken, but I've not been a subscriber for that long.
I just use Safari on the iPhone to browse the website, find the scene, finger-click on that little "iPhone" icon under the scene and porn uhhh...streams? spews? cums? Pick your metaphor...it works.
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Marv Montag (@PornOfYore)
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2/09
Posted - May 28 2009 : 10:57PM
^I was trying to put it in iTunes and transport it over to a 5G iPod. With Brazzers, it always works out perfectly--same with moviebox, when I was a member of that.
Perhaps that's the difference.
Thanks for the information, though--I appreciate it.
 
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
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Posted - May 28 2009 : 11:02PM
Well they have 2 different versions actually, both are iPod/iPhone compatible.
They have an h.264 MP4 format at 64 hex 480. This is close to the high-res WMV format. It will play instantly inside of iTunes and on my iPod Touch/iPhone. I don't have an older video iPod to test this.
Then they have the aforementioned iPhone 32 hex 240 format, also mp4 and also h.264 codec. This will stream to the iPod Touch/iPhone. But I know from experience that I can also snag this as a download, import to my iTunes library and instantly synch it with my iPhone. The only difference between this format and the one above is resolution, bitrate and file size.
But like I said...not familiar with videos on the video iPods.
LubeNLuv
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3/06
Posted - May 28 2009 : 11:04PM
BTW, site seems to be up and stable now for me. I'm downloading 11 scenes in the background and things are moving slow but....moving nonetheless.
Still haven't seen a single mention in comments from other users about the site being down and given how vocal this community is that surprises me. I wonder if it is/was a regional issue?
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Marv Montag (@PornOfYore)
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2/09
Posted - May 28 2009 : 11:10PM
Sounds like they fixed the issue then--as there shouldn't be a difference that I can see, given that there isn't a difference for the same thing with other sites.
Thanks! Maybe I'll re-join at some point.
jettyman
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732 Posts
12/08
Posted - May 30 2009 : 8:07PM

I can't access Videobox today, are they having problems? There have been some negative comments on the quality of their updates on the site, I hope the site not going tits up!!!
Edited by - jettyman on 5/30/2009 8:08:16 PM
poloprinz
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We didn't bring a compass 'cause we ain't got nowhere to go
173 Posts
4/09
Posted - May 31 2009 : 12:01AM
@LubeNLuv: I couldn't get to the preview area on 5/28, too, so - not a local problem.
Site was down for some hours.
@jettyman: Works now. Negative comments on updates? Technical quality or content? Sometimes they have 1-2 days of updates that have less of a "mass-appeal". That usually gets complaints from members who feel ripped-off
I don't think the site is going caput. When i was a member some months ago, problems like this came up once or twice. Always got fixed pretty fast.
jettyman
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732 Posts
12/08
Posted - May 31 2009 : 3:58AM

@poloprinz, I was talking about content.

I am still unable to gain access, a google search tells me the link to the site appears to be broken. This may be a local problem. Does anybody in the UK have a problem with Videobox?

LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - May 31 2009 : 10:39PM
I've been on VB for past 24 hours solid, doing lots of downloads. So whatever problem I had is now fixed.
No idea what is going on. They've not posted a thing about it on their blog and seem to have ignored comments from posters who claimed to have the same problem. Maybe I'm spoiled but I would have expected at LEAST a little "Hey folks, technical difficulty, sorry about that, should be ok now" sort of post.
Honestly, with all the threats and news about ISP's suddenly on a bandwidth-throttling crusade again, I kinda freaked out. I put the word "un" in "unlimited bandwidth."
Edited by - Lubenluv on 5/31/2009 10:40:19 PM
LubeNLuv
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Posted - Jun 1 2009 : 10:04AM
Hey on the plus side here....
VB just did something rather unique. Normally, they are posting a lot of older DVD's...stuff released back in 2007 or earlier. Yesterday they posted RLD's "100% Natural #18" with the bodacious Ami Jordan (rawr). I thought this looked kind of new as she's not been in that many flicks since showing up on Reality Kings. Sure enough, Adultdvdempire says that this video is a new release, April 29 2009.
If that's the right release date, this is pretty much first-run fare.
jettyman
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732 Posts
12/08
Posted - Jun 1 2009 : 4:38PM

lubeNluv wrote:
Yesterday they posted RLD's "100% Natural #18" with the bodacious Ami Jordan
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Now I'm getting pissed off, I like Ami Jordan.
I still can't gain access to the site even though I'm a member, even links from ADT forum pages don't work. I can't even log on to cancel my membership, I don't think they like me.
M vanHouten
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183 Posts
3/04
Posted - Jun 1 2009 : 4:51PM
RLD must be in dire straits.
 
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - Jun 1 2009 : 9:40PM
^ Y'know, I was somewhat wondering the same thing. Why would a DVD production house release a 1-month old DVD onto a bargain bin aggregator site like Videobox?
jettyman
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732 Posts
12/08
Posted - Jun 2 2009 : 7:53PM

Panic over, I'm back online. I e-mailed Videobox and they sorted the problem out.
"100% Natural #18" is a great update plus they have just updated "Cum Stained Casting Couch #13" another quite new RLD movie. These movies are nowhere near the bargain bucket in the stores, they can't be moving off the shelves. On some other VOD sites "100% Natural #18" a new movie, is not even being charged premium rate minute's like other new releases, strange.

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LubeNLuv
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3/06
Posted - Jun 7 2009 : 3:44PM
There appear to be other technical issues.
I'm collecting some scenes from some of my fave performers and finding that almost everything I try to download from Nov 2008 or prior is returning an error:
"Please Try Later
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we had an error in copying this file from the primary file server. We are initiating a copy from a secondary file server. Please try again in a minute."
It's been like this for several days now. I'd say about 1 in every 3 vids I try to download returns that error. That's not my ISP...that's an internal VB-generated error message.
**EDIT**
Anyone else with a VB account, do me a favor please? Try and download any of the scenes from "Gash Masters," originally posted on VB back in Sep of 2008. Let me know if you can do so successfully?

Edited by - LubenLuv on 6/7/2009 3:48:01 PM

poloprinz
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173 Posts
4/09
Posted - Jun 7 2009 : 6:24PM
^
Works for me (Gash Masters/Annetta).
The error message seems to describe what is actually happenning. Most of the time, it takes up to 5 minutes until you can dl, some rare times i had to wait about an hour.
However, i could never find a pattern in my encounters of the error message, as you describe it.
When i first saw it, i thought it was a means to regulate DLs, but it's so random, it can't be that.
jettyman
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12/08
Posted - Jun 7 2009 : 6:30PM

Hi there lubeNluv, I just tried to d/l the Naudia Nyce scene for you to see if it works. The d/l worked o.k. I did suffer problems a few days back, I contacted them and they sent me an e-mail part of which said this "the problem was due to Videobox.com upgrading their systems.
Right now, they are transferring about 2,000 customers a day to the new upgraded systems"
I must admit Videobox e-mailed this 2 hours after I sent my e-mail and I was back up and running 3-4 hours after that, pretty good I think. Maybe you should contact them about your problems....J.
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - Jun 7 2009 : 7:51PM
Thanks to both of you for trying it out. As of right now, I'm still getting that same error on all scenes/all formats for that movie. I've cleared my cache, tried this on multiple browsers and on two different PC's. I've even tried via my cellular modem to see if it was my ISP that was interfering. Just can't seem to download anything from that movie without getting the same error over and over telling me to try again later.
Perhaps it's server centric and this is related to the issue reported earlier in this thread...different users get access via different servers so some will/some won't encounter problems. All the new stuff...no problems, D/L's working just fine.
I've emailed support but it is the weekend so don't really expect anything until tomorrow. We'll see.
poloprinz
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We didn't bring a compass 'cause we ain't got nowhere to go
173 Posts
4/09
Posted - Jun 7 2009 : 8:43PM
One last thought: Your situation is in fact that you see the error message every time?
I'm asking because it took me a while to find out that you have to trigger the error message (=open the dl link in a browser window), else the new dl option on the other server will not be created. If you just do a right click and notice that the file has a .htm extension (=no file) instead of .mp4 or .wmv and try again later, you keep having the same problem.
Once you have realized what happens, this is of course obvious.
It took me so long to figure it out because i dl to disk, not into a browser window.
LubeNLuv
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1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - Jun 8 2009 : 12:04AM
Yes, I get that error message if I just single-click on one of the video formats. If I right click on a video format and choose "Save As" I don't get the error, but then again all I get is a 1K file download instead. I have to single-click on the video link and then get that error message. If I do what it says (Go away, come back later) then the file will eventually show up and be available for download.
I've no idea what's up....it's like some really fucked up "file fetching" system.
LubeNLuv
Senior Member

1854 Posts
3/06
Posted - Jun 17 2009 : 8:23PM
Don't let Daddy Know 7 was just posted on VB. That movie was just released in March. It really does appear that the RLD stuff is going straight to VB now.
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Marv Montag (@PornOfYore)
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2/09
Posted - Jul 17 2009 : 11:59AM
I have a quick question about Videobox.
Can you download to own / use on a portable device / etc. the Evil Angel and Vivid premium channels like you can for the rest of the stuff on the site?
If so, this might be too good of a deal to pass up, and I might just have to sign-up again.
Thanks in advance...
 
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Posted - Jul 18 2009 : 12:26AM
I am a member there and, yes when you download a evil angel / vivid = thats is yours to keep forever, no DRM at videobox.
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Marv Montag (@PornOfYore)
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2/09
Posted - Jul 18 2009 : 12:29AM
^Sweet! Thanks!



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