HandyStuds focuses mostly on male pornstars enjoying solo masturbation in front of the camera, but there are also some nice hardcore fucking scenes to keep things interesting. It's basically a video website, which has a recent big gap in updates. But what's cool here is we get to see them go solo and stroke those famous porn cocks for us. Sound good? I sure think so! I'm off to the member area of Handy Studs to take a closer look.
| Review Of: Handy Studs | Last update on: 2009-10-16 | Posted on: 2010-04-12 |
OVERALL SITE RATING: |
| Content |
| Updates | 14/15 |
| Originality | 9/10 |
| Quality | 10/10 |
| Speed | 8/10 |
| Volume | 10/10 |
| Total | 51/55 |
| Navigation,Design & Features |
| Design | 4/5 |
| Navigation | 4/5 |
| Features | 3/5 |
| Total | 11/15 |
| Cost |
| Value | 26/30 |
Price details: | |
| Trial | $N/A |
| Monthly | $19.95 |
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The member area here is clean and easy to use. There are navigation links across the top of the page. Underneath on the left are the most recent updates and on the right is a poll and below is an advertisement for sperm production pills. There are no dates on the updates and there's no dates telling us when to expect new videos to be added.
Before we get to the content, I want to talk about something I like about the site. What I like is the men. They are real men types and they're all fucking hot. Also most are name pornstars - I found AnthonyHardwood, DeshaunHayes, JRLangdon, JoeyRay, HerschellSavage and TylerKnight inside HandyStuds. Now the silly part. Whoever wrote the text descriptions doesn't seem to have a clue that these guys are pornstars!.
HandyStuds offers 36 videos. The original videos were the 11 pornstars in solo videos. Unfortunately the most recent updates are just regular gay sex videos, listed as BonusContent but listed with the main videos. The original solo videos include interviews are done by a woman who also seems to be the director. That's what helped me figure out that at least some of the solo videos here are from a particular porn DVD. And the newest videos are also from DVDs, so don't expect any exclusive content here.
There are 6 video options inside HandyStuds, but let's start with the biggest, the FULL SCENE download. These videos are WMVs that have a screen size of 720x480 with a bitrate of 2 Mbps. That means they look good and you can go full screen with them without much loss of quality. There are 3 more sizes of WMV - a pretty good quality 700k version and 2 versions suitable for dialup or IDSN use. For those on Macs or who just don't care for WMVs for some reason, there are 2 MPG versions of each movie - 650k at 352x240 and a 350k version shown at 240x160.
There are some things I like about these videos. They play smoothly, although don't have high expectations out of the lowest quality videos and all of these movies have good sound quality. They can be streamed or downloaded to add to your collection, and since they don't use DRM, you can watch them forever.
Each vid comes with a set of pictures. These are vidcaps and can be browsed or downloaded in a zip file although that zip file doesn't unzip using Winzip. I did get it open using Winrar.
Do you want bonus websites? HandyStuds members get access to 7 original gay websites. The extras page also has a list of gay feeds from bears to twinks. I was unable to get any of these feeds to work, but that may be because I am using a reviewer login.
HandyStuds is off to a good start. Featuring a small collection of regular pornstars with muscular physiques and hard cocks who jack off for the camera. The best quality vids are very good. They're large and can be saved to enjoy again and again as the site uses no DRM. For those on slower connections, there are several more video speeds as well as pictures and some gay bonus sites of similar quality, although these are mostly twink sites. If you want to see pornstars in masturbation videos and don't mind a smaller site, why not check out the tour of HandyStuds which can be accessed by clicking the link below.

