Quoting The Movieman:

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I agree with this. I check the Pending Updates several times in a day and usually find many to vote on. So it could be a locality thing.

Agreed. I still get a ton on R1 submissions to vote on every day.

I own a lot of foreign releases, but I do see far less contributions to those.

Quoting perception101:

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So, some not long out but no UK DVD profile for

White House Down
R.I.P.D.
Despicable Me & Despicable Me 2 boxed set
Supernatural: Eighth Season boxed set (no primary entry, not just missing child entries)
Bullet to the Head (until I uploaded it earlier)
Side by Side (but obscure, so no surprise)
Game of Thrones: Complete Second Season (been out ages) - no images
RoboCop Trilogy boxed set

As I said, I know I can add them, and for some I will, but it's different from say 2 years ago where I was always amazed anything I bought was present.  Maybe Region 2 viewers are using something else now?

Also, looking at your collection, I can see you are a U.K. buyer.

I myself am buying in the Netherlands (my country), Germany (a few km's over the border) and the U.K. (amazon). For profiling I often look at the USA. Sometimes from France.

In the USA and Germany, contributions are always in a high tempo. Enough fanatic users; you only need a few per country. The U.K. contributions have dropped sharply since about two years or so. The few fanatic users that contributed much were chased away by the then often very rude interactions in the fora. They are still active at the refugee internet site for profiler users.
The Netherlands are somewhere inbetween whilst France has improved -- it used to be poor but is now better.

So for the U.K.'s poor current state of profiles, blame the forum trolls. Unfortunately it will only get better if new 'fanatic users' will rise. The refugees have had their fill, do not expect them to return anytime soon.

That said, I concur with the remarks on program development and its consequences for user motivation. As much as Invelos has focused on the emerging big markets for ipad and android, the announced (!) improved internet profile site is now 4 years or so in the making and the current PC version is also ageing (see here in the beta forum most recent discussion).
And since the heated interactions in the fora have died down (a good thing) I haven't seen any presence from Invelos recently (a not so good thing).

Last, in part the movie industry is to blame too. I've seen the pace of new films coming to disk slowing down (be that on DVD or BluRay) as is the pace of publishing old movies. Result: there is less to profile -- notwithstanding the other reason for the U.K. state of affairs. Whether this is due to the recession and/or new media channels (streaming) is a nice debate about second guessing the reasons.
That leaves indeed the many contributions on name variations / birth years. Well intended, but for me it is primarily a signal that the name standardisation annex person identification needs resolve (also announced for 4.0 if memory serves me well).

I have noticed that the most up to date... best profiles here in the US is the Blu-ray releases. Seems most contributors buy everything on Blu-ray when they can. But even then the DVD version is usually at least there.

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Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I don't know... maybe it is because I only buy US R1 titles... but I don't see any slowing down at all. Seldomly ever find something that is not already in the database. Most things I find not already in the database is child profiles for TV Series... and since that is optional I am not surprised by that.

I am also seeing all the time having to vote on updated profiles. Not slowed down any from what I can tell.

So I guess I just been rather lucky?

I agree with this. I check the Pending Updates several times in a day and usually find many to vote on. So it could be a locality thing.

How many of those are new submissions, and how many are 'tinkering' with small changes on existing submissions?

Thanks everyone for the comments - so my take away is that in the UK (and some other regions) the rate of submissions of new releases, especially on DVD (vs BR) are definitely declining and it's not just me buying entirely obscure releases.

Quoting perception101:

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Thanks everyone for the comments - so my take away is that in the UK (and some other regions) the rate of submissions of new releases, especially on DVD (vs BR) are definitely declining and it's not just me buying entirely obscure releases.

What do you deem obscure though?

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Back when I did the DVDPca plugin, I had dreams of

That's when I stopped reading.

Quoting samuelrichardscott:

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Yep. Lack of development and solving issues is something I believe has caused a very noticeable lack in even big titles being added. Personally, I no longer submit anything more than the bare minimum as I have better places to devote my time to where people behind the scenes care and improve the main issues, instead of just small ones to try and hide behind a lack of care, knowing that the hardcore few will post and back anything Ken/Gerri says about future instalments and updates. Expect some of these to post saying "what do you expect just one man to do?", "You only paid $30 for a lifetime subscription" etc etc.

Ken doesn't care, and if just 2 or 3 of some of the more prolific users here didn't, the program would bomb even quicker.

A real shame, as it is the best on the market, with a genuinely good community, but everyone else is catching up... fast.

^ Well said.