1.DVD Aficionado
1a.DVD Profiler
3.Microsoft Excel

These are the three I use .

dvdaf only. easy use...very simple. great service...personal service that I never got out of anyone else. service means alot to me. my mail is responded to super fast. my submissions are approoved sometimes in less than 1 hour. twice...within 5 minutes. I even recieved an IM a few days ago that THANKED me for the submissions!! GREAT service....so I'm staying. I like being a preferred user.

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Much like IMDb, I am awed by the massive database of DVD Profiler (145,484 listings and counting). I can personalize it to meet most all my needs. Though I've used Aficionado (38,000+ listings) and guzzlefish (? listings--but far fewer than the other two), neither does a very good job of cataloguing my particular collection (which contains quite a few box sets and non-R1 titles). With Profiler, I get an accurate count, a boatload of information on each title, and good-looking cover scans. There are annoyances to be sure (contributors who tweak accurate profiles with questionable information), but most can be avoided with the "Lock" function.

I happily paid my money to Profiler, and look forward to future improvements.

Does anybody know how many of those are unique titles (i.e., count five entries for the same movie as one)? I know that those silly store-specific UPC codes and re-releasees and other things have cause the same movies to be entered multiple times and I'd imagine that that bloats the numbers some. Just curious . . .

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but there can only be one entry per UPC (or unique disc ID--for those discs without UPCs). The problem comes when someone enters the UPC incorrectly or makes up a UPC when they're too lazy to find the real one--this can result in more than one entry for a single release. Manual entries (with neither the UPC nor a Disc ID specified) are not part of the database, but can be locked and saved in personal collections.

Personally, I like that Profiler is mainly based on the UPC--if you enter your collection by UPC (rather than searching by title), you're guaranteed to get the most accurate information in the database. With studios constantly releasing souped up or stripped down versions of their titles, this is the most accurate way to organize the database.

DVD Profiler works for me. Easy to use and maintain, no complains from me.

I settled on DVD Profiler. I have 642 DVD/boxsets/tv sets and have so far added 337 of them. About half to go

There were 2 things I liked about other programs that I'm now doing with DVD Profiler. I LOVE the way Amazon lists the special features of DVDs so for all DVDs in the Notes section I'm copying and pasting the Amazon information. It seems like a daunting task but if I do 10 a day it'll just take me a little over 2 months, and 10 a day it's just around 10-15 minutes of work.

The other thing I loved was the ability to put DVDs into folders. I have my Disney Specials (B&TB Plat, Fantasia Anthology, Lion King Plat, Sleeping Beauty SE, and Snow White Plat), then I have my Pixars, my Vistas, my Kevin Smiths, Movie Boxsets, Reference (i.e. DVD Discoveries, The Irish Empire), Imax, Disney (Alice in Wonderland Gold), Warners, etc. (and of course Criterions )

So what I did is before all the Disney Specials I put a "--" and before all the Pixars I put "---" and so on so that when I sort by TITLE, all my Disney Specials will be first, followed by the Pixars, etc. After the Special collections (including the Criterions of course) follow TV Sets (also with "-s" in the front) and last but not least the rest of the run-of-the-mill movies alphabetized. (EVERYTHING is alphabetized).

I did it this way because my DVDs are physically separated this way and if I just do everything alphabetized I'd have to go all over the room when I'm checking that there are no DVDs missing. It's also great to see what I'm missing in the collections (Criterion, Warner, etc).

So with these two workarounds I have everything I ever wanted. Sure it's a lot of work but once I'm caught up with all the DVDs I have adding new ones will be a breeze.

I like Profiler. And I am sure to like it even more because my computer's hard drive went over the high-side and will have to re-enter all of the movies I put in since September. After I figure out what exactly I have bought.

I use both DVD Aficionado and Guzzlefish. I prefer Aficionado the most.

DVDProfiler floats my banana. But these new submission rules blow.

I love DVDaf, but the one thing that bugs me is they list every single episode on some tv releases.

DVD Aficionado all the way. Simple to use and very quick with adding submissions. Guzzlefish is missing too many Region 2 DVD's.

Profiler for me

Aficionado for me. Quick and efficient.

One big advantage DVD Profiler has is that it is an actual program which one has on one's computer. It can be accessed offline and is not dependent on a server existing. I can keep my collection and add to it even if Intervocative folds, so long as I have the program.

DVD Profiler

I did that as well. I also went to the the quotes, and trivia facts they(Amazon) offer for each movie, and included some of my favorite quotes, as well as the great trivia info. I also copied and pasted some of the reviews, both good, and bad, to my "Notes" section for each movie. I only have around 130 DVD's, and it took me around two weeks to do it all.

Yes and no. There seems to be a glich in their system which allows a DVD to be entered twice (with the same UPC) if it is given a different regional code. (They may, however, have corrected this, but the older, double entries remain in their master database.)

My vote goes to Movie Collector.

DVD profiler is my favorite. I like Guzzlefish because it implements video games and cds as well, but I don't like the fact that a lot of my cds arent on it, and that I can't put in my own custom cds.

I like dvd profiler mostly because it's a localized archive as well, not just on the net. Plus the promise of upcoming PPC support is something I'm interested in.

"My vote goes to Movie Collector."

I downloaded this. It seems difficult to use.

I'm a big fan of DVDProfiler. Lots of info and I don't have to be online to use it.

I've recently started using Guzzlefish because of the stats, but they're missing some discs I have. It's also fun to say "guzzlefish" to people.

Many thanks for contributors to this thread. I just happened to be looking for something more robust, and I found it.

I started with Excel, and it became unmanageable. Moved up to Access (as soon as I learned how to use the bloody thing).

Since it’s available offline, and contains the info I’m looking to compile (and a LOT more), I went with Profiler. Like, yesterday. Thanks to UPC code entry, I managed to enter over 500 titles in just a coupla afternoons.

Profiler also lets you put a disc in a DVD-ROM drive and reads the ID. I have a couple from InsideDVD, and they were listed. Kinda scary.

Unfortunately, the thing has a massive database. Why is that a problem? Because I can go through it and compile a wish list, maybe find titles I didn’t even know were out there, spend money, get another job to pay for them, which means I won’t have time to watch them, oh the horror!

The actor lists and automatic cross referencing is great!

Wizdar: nice collection. wish I had that copy of This Island Earth.