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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 7 |
| | Posted: | | | | Collectorz seem to have canceled the desktop version of Movie Collector. Apparently only the smartphone and the Android app are available. I also had less good experiences with the company in the past when the promise of lifetime licenses was canceled. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,679 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Cineast: Quote:
Collectorz seem to have canceled the desktop version of Movie Collector. Apparently only the smartphone and the Android app are available. I also had less good experiences with the company in the past when the promise of lifetime licenses was canceled. Their web site still shows the Windows (and Mac) version, at $39.95 per year. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: June 20, 2015 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 179 |
| | Posted: | | | | Looks like they are moving from a desktop version, Movie Collector, to a web based version, Movie Connect.
"Movie Connect is an alternative to the Movie Collector software, for use on computers. Whereas your current Movie Collector is downloadable software that you install on your own PC or Mac, Movie Connect is fully web-based, with the software running on our servers and your data stored in the CLZ Cloud."
https://app.clz.com/movies/manual/1/en/topic/trade-in-offer-for-movie-collector-users | | | | Last edited: by nanoron |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,639 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GSyren: Quote:
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Collectorz seem to have canceled the desktop version of Movie Collector. Apparently only the smartphone and the Android app are available. I also had less good experiences with the company in the past when the promise of lifetime licenses was canceled.
Their web site still shows the Windows (and Mac) version, at $39.95 per year. Where is it listed as the new site seems to have omitted it. |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,639 |
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| Registered: August 7, 2007 | | Posts: 102 |
| | Posted: | | | | I took matters into my own hands about 10 years ago and created my own movie catalog tool. I wrote about it a few years ago here with some screenshots of what I did. In 2014 I already saw the handwriting on the wall: physical disc market declining, disc collecting more niche, catalog tools getting rare, etc. I have thousands of discs, and I didn't want to trust third-parties with the job. So I used my programming skills to create my own solutions. Programming is hard, but nothing is impossible. I still use DVD Profiler, but mostly for getting disc covers and disc specs. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,679 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting movie_madness: Quote:
I took matters into my own hands about 10 years ago and created my own movie catalog tool. I wrote about it a few years ago here with some screenshots of what I did. In 2014 I already saw the handwriting on the wall: physical disc market declining, disc collecting more niche, catalog tools getting rare, etc. I have thousands of discs, and I didn't want to trust third-parties with the job. So I used my programming skills to create my own solutions. Programming is hard, but nothing is impossible. I still use DVD Profiler, but mostly for getting disc covers and disc specs. Your screenshots looks impressive, but does the program do anything that DVD Profiler does not do? I toyed with an idea like that myself, but ultimately concluded that since the Profiler desktop app works just fine, it would be a waste of time and effort. Also, I couldn't write an iOS app, and I really like to have Profiler on my iPad when I watch my movies. Quote:
physical disc market declining, disc collecting more niche I'm not sure that's entirely true. Many people find streaming services unreliable. Those services drop titles with little or no warning. So many people realize that actually owning your movies is a better choice. I don't think cataloging tools will go away. DVD Profiler may go off the market if and when Invelos closes shop, but the program itself will still work, albeit perhaps not quite as smoothly. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: August 7, 2007 | | Posts: 102 |
| | Posted: | | | | My app can import cast & crew automatically with just one button press. In DVD Profiler, even with the plugin, you have to do some manual copying and pasting.
This isn't really about doing it better than DVD Profiler, but about finding a replacement once DVD Profiler is gone. Ten years ago I already knew this day would come. You need to quit on a product at the right time rather than waiting for it to quit on you at the most inopportune time.
When you buy digital titles, they DON'T get dropped. They will remain in your "library" even if they are pulled from the store. You would lose your titles only if the store went out of business. At this stage, Invelos is (way) more likely to go out of business than online digital stores like Vudu, Google Play, Prime, etc., are. |
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| Registered: June 20, 2015 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 179 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is all well and good but has nothing to add to this discussion. We are discussing alternatives to DVD Profiler. While writing your own code is commendable, it has no practical use to anyone else since it is not available to others.
Let's be real here. We need to figure out what is best to do considering DVD Profiler is no longer being actively supported, especially when it comes to iOS users. Writing your own code is not a realistic option to the vast majority of users. | | | | Last edited: by nanoron |
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| Registered: August 7, 2007 | | Posts: 102 |
| | Posted: | | | | But in order for an alternative to be had, somebody has to code it in order to create that alternative. And that somebody could be one of you. Computers and programming are taught in primary schools. Surely there is someone among you with the skill set. I'm one, for one. Sooner or later you guys need to start taking matters into your hands like I did, one way or another. There is nothing to "figure out" if you are just here wishing a magical app would fall from the sky. |
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| Registered: June 20, 2015 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 179 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good luck with that. |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting movie_madness: Quote:
When you buy digital titles, they DON'T get dropped. They will remain in your "library" even if they are pulled from the store. You would lose your titles only if the store went out of business. Or they get bought by/merged with another company who decides not to support that. Looking at the Cruchyroll-Funimation debacle here. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: August 7, 2007 | | Posts: 102 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
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When you buy digital titles, they DON'T get dropped. They will remain in your "library" even if they are pulled from the store. You would lose your titles only if the store went out of business.
Or they get bought by/merged with another company who decides not to support that. Looking at the Cruchyroll-Funimation debacle here. Those Funimation digital copies came from Funimation physical discs, so it was a less egregious thing to lose the digital copies, because the original owners would still have the discs (unless they sold them). Nowadays, tons of online items are digital-only, from games, to movies, to books, to mobile apps. Buying those would always be a risk because if they were gone, they would really be gone. |
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