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Just about anyone who's been inside an adult video store in the last 20 years knows the name Vivid. This video production house has been putting out titles for over two decades and is widely recognized as one of the top companies in adult entertainment today. Here at their official site, you can access online streaming versions of over 1000 of their hottest DVD titles and get free bonus access to even more goodies. Let's go inside the members area together!

The official Vivid site has been online since 1995 at least, and things have undergone many transformations since then. Currently, this is an all streaming site that offers over 1030 full-length DVD titles for streaming along with matching digital still photos from the production and a large page full of third-party and Vivid-owned feeds. It looks like a new video title is added once per week. Although the site offers a live webcam section, as is the case on most sites, private time with the models will cost extra. I was actually a bit surprised that they don't have any live or interactive features included with membership here. Interviews, Q&A sessions, and even live shows with some of their contract stars would certainly help to round out the membership here.

Vivid is home to not only some of the top contract stars performing today such as Sunny Leone and Savanna Samson, but they've also featured some of the most famous porn stars in history over the years. Vivid Entertainment offers titles in several different categories including straightforward hardcore porn, celebrity sex tapes, educational videos, "alternative porn," and parodies. They even have a classic porn section with some of their earlier titles. It looks like most of these sections are fairly well fleshed out except, unfortunately, for the celebrity section of the site. Here, every single video I attempted to view was just an advertisement for buying the video elsewhere. It's not made very clear within the context of the site that these are all ads and it feels quite misleading.

The lack of downloadable video materials here is a pretty serious detriment to the collection. While Vivid understandably wants to protect their materials, most porn fans expect downloadable materials these days and will be disappointed when they aren't available. If the streaming only nature of things doesn't deter you right off the bat, then you can certainly rest assured that the streaming videos offered here are high in quality, buffer quickly, and play smoothly.

The tour pages for Vivid are essentially a copy of the members area. Potential members can check out all of the included materials and everything presented here is fairly accurate except the fact that it is probably pretty difficult to tell that none of the celebrity materials are actually included with membership. A little bit more transparency here would go a long way.

The inside of the site has a neat and clean design that reminds me a bit of a mainstream video streaming site like Netflix. Unfortunately, just like Netflix, Vivid doesn't offer as many navigation features as I personally would like to see for a collection this size. A basic keyword search box returns decent results for performer names and certain keywords, but overall it's lackluster especially when searching for things like categories or specific sex acts.

Aside from the lack of downloadable videos, Vivid has a lot going for it here at its official site. I was impressed with the number of full-length DVDs available and there's something to be said for getting access to this many premium porn titles for a single price. That being said, the price is above average and there are numerous tweaks that this site could really use. Overall, I don't think the site does justice to the materials.

+ Huge collection of original Vivid titles
+ Steady updates
+ Nice streaming quality
- No downloadable materials at all
- Older quality not as good
- Needs better search and nav
- Confusing celeb ads