81 Falcon Studios Review
The official Falcon site, with a huge trove of new and classic titles, plus web exclusive videos. Video streams only.
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Falcon Studios Review [visit Falcon Studios]
MP4 (stream); 960x540; ?_k (15% of videos)
Review date: September 2011
Once you're a member of Falcon Studios awesome streaming site, your most difficult choice will be between the incredibly hot vintage classics and the crystal-clear new HD videos. One of the best studio sites online, it was completely re-designed and expanded in mid-2010. Inside there are more than 2000 streaming video scenes from almost 460 DVDs released over the past 30 years under the Falcon, Jocks, Mustang, and Falcon International nameplates. There's now a complete mobile version that works flawlessly. But, as with many of the studio sites, the videos will stream only and there's no option to download.
Tour
The tour for Falcon Studios unfolds as you scroll down the long homepage. Start off with the preview of the latest release, and continue by clicking any of the thumbnails on the homepage or by browsing the "Updates," "Movie" and "Models" indexes. All of these will lead you to a one minute explicit trailer for every video on the site. It's an excellent mirror tour all round.
Usability
You have numerous navigation options on Falcon Studios. Use the text links across the top of any page for broad indexes such as "Updates," "Movies," "Photos," or "Models". Or use the left sidebar for more specific searches such as by studio, by theme, or by model. And the advanced search feature is very cool: enter a theme - like leather, and then you can cross-reference it by two additional categories like Latino and butt play. It's a challenge to keep such a large inventory organized and accessible, but Falcon has done it.
The Men and the Action
You'll enjoy looking for your favorite model in Falcon's huge roster, which reads like a who's who of gay porn. From Ty Colt to Roman Heart, from Eric Rhodes to Dean Munroe, Arpad Miklos, Chad Hunt, Benjamin Bradley, Shane Rollins, Barrett Long, Brad Patton ... the list of horse-hung Falcon porn gods goes on and on.
Over the years, the beautifully filmed and lit Falcon movies, from raunchy classics like "The Other Side Of Aspen", to the sun-seared "Absolute Arid", to the latest Falcon fuck-fest have been shot in the snowy mountains, the Hollywood Hills, the burning desert, and on location all over the world. The scenes range from wild pre-condom epics to gorgeous HD contemporary classics. Whether your tastes run to vanilla or kink, younger men to muscle and leather studs, there's something here to get you off.
The model index provides you with important stats about your chosen stud, and cross-links you with his image galleries and the video scenes he appears in. There are good text descriptions for every scene, but there aren't any model interviews nor are there original release dates given for the DVDs.
About 15% of the videos are available in "Web HD" (540 pixels high) and are excellent quality but the older videos don't have the same sharpness and, of course, the very oldest, originally shot on film, are average quality.
Video Details
Here's our run-down of DVD content from the studio's famous video lines, and remember, Falcon is now
premiering their most recent videos online before they become available on DVD:
Falcon: 935 scenes
Mustang: 449 scenes
Jocks: 387 scenes
International: 156 scenes
Str8Men: 111 Web exclusive scenes, mostly solos
The videos in Falcon Studios stream only in MP4 format, in your choice of two to five bitrates (depending on when the scene was added.) There are no downloads available. The most recent 15% of videos, labelled "HD" are a large 960x540 pixels. They can be viewed at four lower bitrates as well. Older, non-HD ones are the standard 640x480 pixels with four bitrate options.
Mac note: Mac users can view the MP4 streams without a problem.
Mobile note: There is a full-function mobile version of the site for easy playback of all of the scenes on your mobile device.
Image and Other Content
Take a look at some of the thousands of images on the site. Some are what's called "Glamour Shots". These are very large, crystal clear digital photos that accompany each model profile. Or you can check out what Falcon calls a "DVD Set". These are typically video capture images and accompany a DVD box cover from one of the Falcon lines, along with the Glamour Sets for the models appearing in the scenes. So, combine 1750 digital image galleries of models with video capture sets from over 300 DVDs and there's easily over 2000 image sets.
Summing Up
While users with slower connections may find buffering to be an issue on this site, the newer high-definition videos in particular are a major improvement over Falcon's previous online offerings. Whether you're new to the Falcon experience or a devoted long-time fan, you're in for a horned-up thrill ride through over 30 years of some of the biggest stars and best-loved titles in the history of gay porn.
BananaGuide Price
30 day: $29.95 $14.95 (rebills @ $14.95)
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| Quality | 25/33 |
| Quantity | 16/20 |
| Personality | 5/5 |
| Video Options | 4/6 |
| Updates | 4/6 |
| Content | 53/70 |
| Tour | 5/5 |
| Usability | 15/15 |
| Fairness | 5/5 |
| Value | 3/5 |
| User-friendly | 28/30 |
SafeRated: High
All titles from mid-nineties onward use condoms in fuck scenes.
[safer sex in porn]
Memberships
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30 day: $29.95 $14.95
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Falcon Studios is operated by Gamma and has been online since 2001.
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