Thursday, July 06, 2006

Huge Mpegs

Huge Mpegs is one of my favorite video download sites. It is not the most famous, nor does it have the most stunning and sophisticated website design. What is does have is loads of high resolution movies that are all fully downloadable. Almost all the movies are made from DVD's from studios you may know like Legend, Red Light District, Smash Pictures, etc. They unfortunately don't have any videos from two of the best studios, Vivid and Wicked, but than again, neither does anyone else, as those studios will not license their stuff to any of the download sites. But there is plenty of hot stuff, still.
As of today, they have 40 pages, each with about 50 videos on them, which is about 2000 scenes (sorry, I didn't count them all). You can download the full scene, which average around 25 minutes each, and about 250MB. They also have shorter one or two minute sections as well if you don't want to wait for the full scene.
The site is nicely categorized, and there is a good search function. This site could not be easier to use. The navigation is very simple, just pages of thumbnail previews of movies, and some categories. You won't find yourself saying "How do I find the movies?" on this site, like on some others. You can't miss them.
And, importantly, these videos have no DRM, so you don't have to stay a member to keep watching the movies that you have downloaded.
Compared to VideosZ, Huge Mpegs has only about half the movies, and they don't have the different bandwidth options VideosZ has. It's only real advantage over VideosZ is that none of their videos have DRM, when most of VideosZ's newest movies have DRM. It's still a kick ass site, especially if you prefer mpegs to .wmv's, and want to build an archive of videos.