There isn't any one theme with Fox Magazine's online version – you just get hot as hell women getting into plenty of hardcore trouble. The member's area has a simple and easy to use design that all of the Swank sites share. You have all of your browsing options right at your fingertips, between a keyword search, category drop down, videos and pictures sections, and a model directory. It almost seems like the main member's area should be too busy, but it pulls it off well.
There are twice weekly updates featuring both known pornstars and newcomer babes, adding to a collection of nearly 60+ videos and 80+ photos. The individual video pages are pretty bare bones. There isn't even a description of the scene, they just throw the videos at you and let you have at it. The model name and categories are listed, and the first option is the full length download iPod version. The rest of the videos are in clips only, as the videos are easily 40 minutes or more on average, with a few 90 minute ones thrown in here and there. Most of the clips only offer WMV for streaming and downloading, although a few select clips offer Flash as well. There are three different qualities: low at 320x240 and 500 kbps, medium at 480x320 and 900 kbps, and high at 480x320 and 1.5 mbps. The quality could be a lot better, and while the content is good, the lower quality is a bit distracting.
The photo galleries have a very weird size issue going on. Some sets are 10 photos, others are 200. Logic says that the smaller ones are probably ones pulled from the magazine for pictorials, but there's no real explanation on anything on the site, whether it's about the models or about the sets. The photos are offered in three different sizes – 800, 1000, or 1400. However you'll find that choose either of the two larger options gets you the same size of 768x1024. The photo quality is very good, and you can choose to watch them with slideshows or in a zip download.
Fox Magazine has a very cool bonus that all of the Swank umbrella sites share – access to a digital archive of all of their magazines. Fox Magazine is there, along with Swank, Velvet, Gent, and quite a few others. It's a great way to look through them with a magazine feel, while still keeping it in a very portable and easy to hide fashion. There are also nine bonus sites, exclusive to the Swank network. These are mostly the online versions of a lot of the magazines. You get plenty of different niches, with a ton more babe hardcore, and some more specific fetishes like legs and BBW. Finally, there are also eight third party feeds.
Fox Magazine could really use a revamp on their video quality, and for a general hardcore site the collection is on the small side. However the bonuses really help out and offer a lot that you'll want to look through, and the access to the digital magazine collection is hard to beat.
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