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Your life before DVD Profiler
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributordee1959jay
Registered: March 19, 2007
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I used a fairly simple Excel sheet at first. I started using DVDP and Collectorz at roughly the same time. Still use Collectorz as an alternative backup and also to cover my VHS tapes, as well as their music and book programmes, but they're nowhere near as good as DVDP.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMakoDeth
Registered: February 10, 2008
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I used an OpenOffice.org Calc sheet. In February 2008 my brother told and showed me DVD Profiler. As I already had about 300 DVDs at that time I bought it right away... and a lot of dvds/hd dvds/blue-rays since then 
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantgoodguy
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I was lucky to discover DVD Profiler when I started collecting DVDs. But I still use a secondary database (MS Access) to do stuff DVD Profiler can't do. For example, detailed content info and watched tracking.

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I used MS Access, but then gladly I found DvD Profiler
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantgardibolt
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I started off with the now-defunct DVD Tracker; for a few years I kept dual databases since it was easier to access that one online. But then they started charging an annual fee and then they went belly-up.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I used MS Excel for the first couple of years (well, year and a half). You can still find a copy here which was last updated 2001-07-03. It could also track CD and VHS! 

By this time I think I tried an early free version of DVD Profiler but didn't much like it (or maybe I didn't want to pay for it). Instead I started to use the online tracker offered by www.dvdforum.nu. Unfortunately their central database was dumped when version 3 of the site was launched so that was years of effort wasted and I didn't feel like starting over again. That's when I turned to Profiler for the second time and so it remains. 

My oldest registration mail btw is from 2003-05-22 but I think it was another year before I was completely turned over.
First registered: February 15, 2002
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Quoting m.cellophane:
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I used nothing for 3 years until I got to about 150.

I find that shocking, really 


I used Excel for my laserdisc collection (150 or so). When I started buying DVD I had just come to Taiwan and no access to a computer. I had still less than a hundred when I discovered DVD Profiler (0.95, IIRC).
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAstrakan
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Nothing at all. I bought DVD profiler when I had 89 titles, so there wasn't much need for a database to keep track of them.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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I used FileMaker program on the Mac to keep track of my DVDs and LDs before migrating to PCs and DVDP.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantCaptKirk42
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Registered: October 2, 2008
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Before I discovered some online solutions I dabbled with keeping an excel spreadsheet, but I didn't keep up with it too much and I didn't really have that many DVDs at that time.

Around the time I thought I needed to keep track of things I found DVDAF but it was lacking a lot. Around the same time I found Guzzlefish and started to use it as it also handled CDs, records, tapes and other media. But then that died. I think sometime just before it went or shortly after I discovered DVDSpot and loved it, used it the most frequently of the things I had found and tried, it was then bought by CNET and about a year or two later they closed it down (Sept/Oct 2008). In my search to find something similar to DVDSpot I recalled I had seen DVDProfiler, but didn't really like the having to buy a membership to open up the better features and to handle a collection of more than 50 DVDs. But after looking a little closer at Profiler I gave in and bought the life-time use membership thing.

As backups I have DVDAF, DVDCrate (which is the closest thing I've found to DVDSpot) but has the problems that DVDAF and DVDSpot had in its early days of slow to update. I also have an Excel spreadsheet that I use as the barebones list.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantMysticum
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Excel and ant movie catalog...then dvd profiler...used the free version for a while before i bought the full version. To me personally it isn't enough that a program lists all your movies...it should also list the exact version and all details about that version. Which i feel a lot of other members here agree with me on 
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorjhagblad
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Another program called 'Pumpkin MovieBrain' and the site 'DVD Collector', but once DVDP came out I switched.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSpaceFreakMicha
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Quoting goodguy:
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I was lucky to discover DVD Profiler when I started collecting DVDs. But I still use a secondary database (MS Access) to do stuff DVD Profiler can't do. For example, detailed content info and watched tracking.



This looks great! Keeping track of audio commentaries and featurettes is one of my biggest "feature requests" for Profiler. 
Any thoughts about releasing it as a plug-in or html-window?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornimrod85
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I used Word before and then OFDB/DVDB
http://www.meine-filmsammlung.de/?19358 and http://moviebase.dvdb.de/nimrod85
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantgoodguy
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This looks great! Keeping track of audio commentaries and featurettes is one of my biggest "feature requests" for Profiler. 
Any thoughts about releasing it as a plug-in or html-window?


No, it will remain a private solution. I only posted it as an example of what can be done. Not for the first time btw, and still in the hope that some day it will inspire Ken Cole to do something about it. If you are interested in a few more details, I discussed it here a while ago.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSpaceFreakMicha
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This looks great! Keeping track of audio commentaries and featurettes is one of my biggest "feature requests" for Profiler. 
Any thoughts about releasing it as a plug-in or html-window?


No, it will remain a private solution. I only posted it as an example of what can be done. Not for the first time btw, and still in the hope that some day it will inspire Ken Cole to do something about it. If you are interested in a few more details, I discussed it here a while ago.


Thank you very much. I hope Ken will consider using at least some of these infos for expanding the possibilities of the Profiler database. 
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