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Seriously? Criterion, Masters of Cinema, Disney Treasures missing??

Like I said, it's been a while since I used it, but even then, they had something like 95,000 DVDs in the database, and there was a LARGE portion of the user base (at least on the forums) who would have been collectors of Criterion, Disney Treasures, and so on...

I think one thing that could cause it is "non-rated" DVDs may be set as adult in your options, and the default search blocks adult DVDs.

If you don't mind, tell me some of the titles you couldn't find, I'm curious now... I downloaded the trial of DVD Profiler to check it out...

NOTE: I don't work for DVD Profiler or make any money in any way from this, I was just a fairly satisfied user (before they crippled the free version, which ticked me off a bit.)

If I actually had money coming in, I'd probably buy the software, it is a perpetual license (good for however many upgrades they do.) It really isn't that expensive (about the cost of one Criterion DVD, or a little more than a Disney Treasure.)

A program like this can do a lot of things that a webpage or a simple list/database in Office can't do:
Of course, you have to put in your personal data (like date purchased, where you bought it, how much you paid, etc., but it can show you how much you paid for your whole collection, what percent of retail that is, it can show the top studios, genres, directors, actors, years, etc. in your collection, you can keep track of loaned DVDs, print out lists of your collection (even a "coffee table" book with 1 DVD per page, including cover art and many DVD/Film details) and so on. I know DVD Profiler had places where users could post reviews of a DVD/Film, and there was an area for easter eggs.

If you have an old Cue Cat lying around, you can even use it to scan DVDs in instead of typing the UPC/Title... I think the DVD Collector (or is it Movie Collector) software can do that as well.


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I think I see the problem on not finding some titles...

I tried Walt Disney Treasures, and less than a dozen titles came up, like:
Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Duck vol. 1

I searched for Oswald, and found "The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Walt Disney Treasures"

What happened is that some of the titles in the database have "Walt Disney Treasures" as part of the title, and others just have their main title, like "The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit". The "Walt Disney Treasures" part is tacked on as an "edition", and when you search to add a new DVD by title, it skips the "edition" tag.

I'd say that many of the other titles you thought were missing are the same way, if you searched for "Criterion" or "The Criterion Collection" some of them may have just had that under "edition" instead of being part of the title.

Actually, I'm surprised they don't include the edition tag in a title search...

Of course, that's one drawback of a user-supported database, you get into little wars about stuff like that:
Person A:
I think the title should be "#002 - The Criterion Collection - The Seven Samurai"
Person B:
"You're crazy, the spine number isn't part of the title!"
Person C:
"Whatever, the title of the movie should come first - The Seven Samurai - The Criterion Collection"
Person D:
"I don't like having The Criterion Collection in the title at all, that's what the Edition tag is for!"

littlefuzzy wrote: Of course, that's one drawback of a user-supported database, you get into little wars about stuff like that:
Person A:
I think the title should be "#002 - The Criterion Collection - The Seven Samurai"
Person B:
"You're crazy, the spine number isn't part of the title!"
Person C:
"Whatever, the title of the movie should come first - The Seven Samurai - The Criterion Collection"
Person D:
"I don't like having The Criterion Collection in the title at all, that's what the Edition tag is for!"

Haha, film fans sure know how to pass the time

I too hated how they totally ruined the free version. Just a few years ago you could get a lot for free, but today there are just too much of a market to bother with freeware.

Yes, I have to admit that has been a problem with Movie Collector as well, that people don't seem to agree on one standard way of writing a title.

I actually don't remember right now which titles I searched for, but I do remember that the same titles came up on Movie Collector (It might have been the 'Essential Art House - 50 Years of Janus Films' box set. However, I think DVD Profiler has a longer history and it does have features that Movie Collector doesn't have (for instance clickable cast & crew lists), so I'd say both programs should be a safe bet (the barcode search in Movie Collector is really quite effective).

I got a few hundred DVDs waiting to be added to the list now. Better put a soundtrack on and get to work!

It looks like there are over 500,000 DVDS total in the DVD Profiler database!

I DID find the "Essential Art House - 50 Years of Janus Films" (spelled exactly the way it is in the quotes)... That one doesn't have an "Edition" tag, however I noticed it didn't have any rating, either.

It's possible that that one might have been blocked if your version of the program defaulted to "unrated" films as adult only, and didn't show adult titles on search.

Other than that, I can't think of a reason it might not have shown up, other than if you put "Criterion" in front of the title.

with the new version of Movie Collector, you can add embedded youtube-trailers for the movie info version. Now I keep watching the trailers instead of the films

I use DVDAF to catalog all of my movies. I mostly do it just to have a definate number of DVD/Blu titles as well as so that I can see how those films are sorted by Genre and then apply that to how I organize my films on the shelves.

Currently my list is a tad outdated since I've been downsizing my collection a bit, though at the rate I buy new movies the number hasn't likely changed in a drastic manner.