My main criticism with them but especially S1 was that they are slow while having 100% exclusivity contracts
Exactly. The same applies to Moodyz, Idea Pocket, Prestige... The main torture we JAV VR fans have is that many top exclusive actresses only shoot 1 or 2 VRs a year. And we can be thankful for that, because some of them don't even do that. I've been waiting two years for a new Washio Mei VR...
A good example is Kawakita Saika's new VR. I think it's been almost a year since she's shot in VR, she releases a new title, and you don't like.... You're annoyed because now you have to wait another year....
I don't know how many titles she shoots in flat, but there are many more... If she shoots one VR a month, or every two months, even if you don't like one, you know that soon there will be more... But with actresses who only shoot one VR every one or two years, it is torture.
I've just discovered that this angle is at least ~4 years old. The oldest release I could find was 3DSVR-0816 from December 2020. Maybe they did the angle before that? That was long before I even got into VR and so many studios still struggle with it to this day. Back then SOD even advertised the angle on their artwork with the two neat illustrations in the bottom left.
Ichika Matsumoto as freelance, filming a lot of VRs, studios promoting full nudity on the covers (now there are only clothed girls), the face-to-face missionary at its best, SOD VR making immersive and “normal” movies... How I miss 2020...
I think this angle was invented by Yazawa Receive on those SOD VR titles you mention, back in 2020. When I watched it, my head exploded, because all previous VRs were immediately outdated.... As you say SOD promoted it for a while because it was the new big thing, but sadly they rarely use it in the last two years. Reason why I hardly buy anything from them. Luckily it's very common with Moodyz, S1, and to a lesser extent, Kawai and Unfinished, that saves me.
Not to say that 100% of the VRs I watch have that face-to-face missionary, but 100% of the movies I buy do. I have VRs without this camera shot, but they are of actresses who have very few movies. In the case of Ena Satsuki in RSRVR-042, since I have several Ena movies with that camera angle, this film didn't add anything for me.
they have a higher bitrate/picture quality in 8k than S1 because SIVR reduces bitrate to around 50% file size compared to the 4k releases which is a waste imo
S1 has the worst 8K image quality of all JAV VR by far, along with Aqua (which is a disaster in everything). As you say, they brag about being #1, have amazing actresses, and then deliver the worst 8K image quality of all JAV VR...
Kiyoka Igarashi is great. No sure why she hasn't release anything in 2024.
She filmed a VR with SOD VR in April. It's not at Akiba, I don't know why. Not bad, but the image quality is terrible:
DSVR-1522
