Quoting northbloke:

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You're right, this is a DVD profiling program, but if Ken wants continued sales, this may be a feature he'll have to seriously start considering as downloaded movies become more and more popular.
I mean, if this was called CD Profiler and he refused to implement the ability to log MP3 files - how popular do you think it would be as a piece of software.
Ken's already shown he's willing to move with the times by including HD discs. This request is only asking that he move a bit further, that's all.

Sorry to keep dragging this on, but we seem to keep missing the point that the product already satiisfies the original request. "Hard Drive" is not a media type. It doesn't make sense to add it there. It belongs in Location, or a Tag - both of which are already available. For example, if Media Type = "Hard Drive", where now do you put whether the media format is HDDVD, SDDVD or BluRay? Now, there could be a new field to supplement Location, called "Physical Storage", with pre-defined values such as "Rom Disc", "Hard Drive", "Furniture", "Shelf" or something like that maybe ...

I agree, or perhaps a separate program. i see this area relatively speaking as in its infancy and not ready for prime-time yet. There are a number of questions, that i would have as a designer regarding hard drive storage, what would I use as a key, is there a unique identifier, how can I prevent pirated films from being entered or privately recorded (off air) to name two that immediately spring to mind. They will also have to figure out a way to keep the image quality high while making the data as compact as possible. For anyone interested in building a collection of any size, it seems to be a non-viable answer at this point in time. Then there is always the question of volatility, not that it would be my direct problem as a designer, but I think we are all well aware of just infrequently users adequately backup their data. I have visions of someone losing their hard drive, and not having created adequate backups losing all or part of their collection.<shivering>

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Quoting dcogdell:

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AESP-  OK, this cannot be too hard for you to understand...

And this isn't movie profiler this is DVD Profiler. See DVD not VHS, not laserdisc, not no physical media film profiler.

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Everyone I know that uses DVD profiler does so because they want to manage their collection. 

And they doesn't use it for his main task : profiling DVD

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  I am glad that others have created added functionality to allow this-  I guess I just have not found it.

This is made by other users and that's not a part of the software

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The funny thing is that there are apparently some people out there that do not realize that physical media is not going to be around forever.

Come see me to talk about it when your hard drive will crash and all your files will be lost forever. Already happen to me and don't want to live it another time with my movie collection. The digital download means nothing to me, since I'm a movie collector and I have to hold something in my hand.

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I think that DVD Profiler is a fantastic product

I agree completly with you here

Having read the first page of this thread I was so infuriated I had to make an account just to say my bit.

I want to say that you are the most narrow-minded idiotic bunch of banana-eating monkeys I've ever encountered!  (Yes, that's an insult you dunderheads!)

Mad yet?  GOOD!

Here's my beef:
This thread started out with a simple request from a user for a new feature.  That my foolish turds is the intended purpose for this thread.  Not for you to chime in and say whether or not you agree or disagree with the request.  That's completely irrelevant.  As is the fact that the request has been made before.

I do have one suggestion for anyone who wants the feature that ignited this silly debate.  Go check out Movie Collector.  It's not as elegant to be sure.  But it's easily customizeable to your needs.

My own personal experience taught me that the ONLY good feature of this program (DVD profiler) was it's barcode search and online database.  However I've always immediately exported the data and imported it into a Movie Collector database.  The good news is that Movie Collector now has it's own barcode search and database downloads.  So there's no use for DVD profiler whatsoever anymore!

The only other thing you've got going for you is some pretty looking output reports.  But those can be copied easily enough!  (Since they are user submissions, the copyrights are virtually impossible to enforce.  It's like taking candy from babies -- woah!  Another insult!)  Or if any of the report designers want to make Movie Collector versions of their reports, I'm sure you'd be welcomed with open arms (and open minds) by Movie Collector users.

To the rest of you lot (mainly the feeback contributers to this thread) -- Later turds!

(Anyone as offended by this thread's attack on a user's legitimate request, go check out Movie Collector.  Anyone offended by this post... go stuff yourselves!)

Ex-DVD profiler user.

I feel sorry for the authors of Movie Collector. Even though I have no interest in Movie Collector I am sure the authors of it has done nothing to deserve being stuck with a user like "thebigbadbear".

I am a bit confused. I came here looking for the same as original poster. This thread has completely strayed from original thought.
A user definable media type.
I skiimmed a bunch of this thread
Yes I will try some of the work arounds, but there seems to be 2 main reasons why not.
Legal...there are legal ways to aquire them or create them.
Then someone keeps saying "this is DVD profiler".
HELLO there are more than 3 types of DVD media. Ever heard of a DVD-ROM? Mini-DVD?

Note taken though, feature not supported and do NOT bring it up OR ELSE!

You feel newDiVX/VOD/DLable vids and DVD-ROM is legacy? Strange I just bought some DVD players that just added "legacy" support for divx on DVD-ROM. A lot more have been doing mov for a while. And I know a lot of people who use a "legacy" digital vid-cams and do not create a DVD for each video and just save as DiVX and burn to "legacy" DVD-ROMs.
I also thought it cost money to share the content "legally?" online? Still not sure how that works. At least they do not get an invelos watermark added like a lot of sites do.
Access to the data/lo quality is free, but to help correct errors and share hi-quality with invelos costs money?
I only wanted to try it for "my movies" and was dissappointed about lack of user-definable media type, import of flat file or XLS list (copy/paste 300 times) and why most of the HD/BD covers have the HD/BD logo removed to be added by the program.

Use the tag system, you can handle ANY media format you wish to locally.

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