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Registered: March 17, 2007
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Quoting Mark Harrison:
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the ability to properly profile discs with more than one movie (or TV episode) on the same side of the disc.  I'd LOVE to finally get rid of all my old manual profiles.


That would be my absolute #1 wish!!! 

I also would like to have the genre "erotic" added to the genre list. Movies like "9 1/2 Weeks" are erotic movies without being adult (= porn) movies. I guess, that should be handled easily.
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Probably would get lost in all the good suggestions so far, but what I'd most like to see concerns reports.

I'd like to have a data-element available in reports for 'Media Type'.  This way I could clearly see BR titles amoungst the standard DVD's without having to run separate lists.
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Probably would get lost in all the good suggestions so far, but what I'd most like to see concerns reports.

I'd like to have a data-element available in reports for 'Media Type'.  This way I could clearly see BR titles amoungst the standard DVD's without having to run separate lists.


Here's a sample report that shows media type, using a few stacked text elements with conditions set.  You could also use graphics.
MediaType.dpr

Save it into your My Documents\DVD Profiler\Reports directory.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKulju
Registered: March 14, 2007
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I would be very nice if user could deside where to locate files that now goes under
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\DVD Profiler. This is a nightmare for people using roaming profiles.
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Registered: March 20, 2007
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My wish would be a single database entry for each movie, so each release of a movie shares the same cast & crew information. But I guess that would be a version 4.0 feature...

On a more realistic note: "Creator" field for TV shows
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My wish would be a single database entry for each movie, so each release of a movie shares the same cast & crew information. But I guess that would be a version 4.0 feature...

On a more realistic note: "Creator" field for TV shows


IMO, not practical. Some releases have differences in Cast & Crew which has already been discovered to be true. This is can be particularly true in the case of Director's cuts where additional footage is usually added to the release. In a case like this there may be actor's scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut but restored in the Director's Cut...the credits would reflect this change.
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My wish would be a single database entry for each movie, so each release of a movie shares the same cast & crew information. But I guess that would be a version 4.0 feature...

On a more realistic note: "Creator" field for TV shows


IMO, not practical. Some releases have differences in Cast & Crew which has already been discovered to be true. This is can be particularly true in the case of Director's cuts where additional footage is usually added to the release. In a case like this there may be actor's scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut but restored in the Director's Cut...the credits would reflect this change.


no offense, but at least for me, I don't see how your comment explains how a 'Creator' field (I would think it'd be a crew credit) is impractical.

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Quoting Reihnold:
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My wish would be a single database entry for each movie, so each release of a movie shares the same cast & crew information. But I guess that would be a version 4.0 feature...

On a more realistic note: "Creator" field for TV shows


IMO, not practical. Some releases have differences in Cast & Crew which has already been discovered to be true. This is can be particularly true in the case of Director's cuts where additional footage is usually added to the release. In a case like this there may be actor's scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut but restored in the Director's Cut...the credits would reflect this change.


no offense, but at least for me, I don't see how your comment explains how a 'Creator' field (I would think it'd be a crew credit) is impractical.

-Agrare


. I never mentioned the "Creator" field in my post. As a matter of fact I agree with that. I was simply expressing my opinion on the praticality of having a single database entry for each movie having the same cast & crew for each release.
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Registered: March 15, 2007
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Then make it a single entry for every movie release/version and it is still a valid point.
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8balMax, sorry, I miss-read. For some reason only put your reply to the last part of the quoted text and was trying to figure out how it related...it makes much more sense now

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8balMax, sorry, I miss-read. For some reason only put your reply to the last part of the quoted text and was trying to figure out how it related...it makes much more sense now

-Agrare


No problem .
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IMO, not practical. Some releases have differences in Cast & Crew which has already been discovered to be true. This is can be particularly true in the case of Director's cuts where additional footage is usually added to the release. In a case like this there may be actor's scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut but restored in the Director's Cut...the credits would reflect this change.


It would also be problematic for things like animated releases where the character voices are replaced for each country.  For example, Tim Allen plays Buzz Lightyear on Toy Story here in the states.  But in France that character is voiced by a French actor.  How do you handle those scenarios?  If there's a clever solution, then it would be a good idea.  But that has to be worked out first.
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I would be very nice if user could deside where to locate files that now goes under
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\DVD Profiler. This is a nightmare for people using roaming profiles.


I agree. This would be my number one wish.
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IMO, not practical. Some releases have differences in Cast & Crew which has already been discovered to be true. This is can be particularly true in the case of Director's cuts where additional footage is usually added to the release. In a case like this there may be actor's scenes that were deleted from the theatrical cut but restored in the Director's Cut...the credits would reflect this change.

It was my wish too, and its as practical as it could be. Current link section clearly has shown that often the same movie has dozens of profiles. All having the same Cast & Crew would supply credits for, i'm guessing, half of the database. If you do a full audit, and credits do not match, add it the same way as localised links, break the linking to other profiles.

Also this is a wish thread, the whole point was to post the most wished feature. Not the most wished feature that you think Ken could make work.
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But if it's not workable, then it's a useless wish, IMHO. And I have to agree with 8Ball, while theoretically it would work, and based on my own experience it would work most of the time but NOT all of the time and that is the key. If it won't work everytime then it is more trouble than it is worth...and there are films that for reasons unbeknownst to me have a different set credits for US veresion versus one or more international versions.

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But if it's not workable, then it's a useless wish, IMHO. And I have to agree with 8Ball, while theoretically it would work, and based on my own experience it would work most of the time but NOT all of the time and that is the key. If it won't work everytime then it is more trouble than it is worth...and there are films that for reasons unbeknownst to me have a different set credits for US veresion versus one or more international versions.

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Right, even when it works for 99%, a workaround for the missing 1% should be available.
For a lot of movies which have two or more COOs it is very common that every country has it's own credit role including rolenames in the country's native language. 

No offense, I really like the idea of saving A LOT of time when auditing cast & crew, but the practical issues have to be sorted out before this feature could be done.
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