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| Registered: March 17, 2007 |  Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like the ability to add cast biographies. Currently if you have a film on your wishlist or you own it and the actor appears you know because you can scroll through the thumbnails when you click on the actor. If we had a biography we could have their list of films (including ones not on DVD yet), age, height weight, birthplace, etc. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I personally hope we don't get this feature... or at least if we do it is for local use only. I could only imagine the trouble it would be to source this info for cast and crew... especially without being able to use IMDB as a sole source. Talk about arguments to come in this forum.  | | | | Pete |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,736 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | If we get this then it should be local only as Addicted & T!M have (effectively) said/implied. We have enough trouble with BYs, imagine the "fun" we'd have over the extra info. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I personally hope we don't get this feature... or at least if we do it is for local use only. I could only imagine the trouble it would be to source this info for cast and crew... especially without being able to use IMDB as a sole source. Talk about arguments to come in this forum. I agree. This will cause me nightmares tonight. Local ONLY. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just pick a movie, go to the Online menu, go down to Other Websites and choose IMDB Search for This Title. That opens IMDB with the movie hopefully selected and from there it's quite simple to get to the bio information for the cast and crew.
Not as simple and easy as having the bio in the main program. But it sure does avoid a lot of headaches and makes the process of accessing this data slightly easier. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Isn't there also a html window somewhere that does what you suggest automatically? Edit: I'm thinking of the Wikipedia one created by RossRoy. I'm sure some knowledgable person could adapt that to work for imdb though....? | | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | hmm then again possibly not, just remembered that imdb uses unique identifiers for its pages. E.g Star Wars is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/. Oh well, thanks for reminding me about the wiki html window  |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Height...? Weight...? We're gonna have a ball!  Obviously, height and weight are just random values. But since we are so dead set on getting every member of the crew in the profile I think it would be nice to be able to click on a bio tab and see what films they were in, the year they were born, and maybe some triva, (e.g. Blue screen Bill was the actor ever shot on a green screen). This is just an idea. I am sure many people will hate it, but I think it would be nice. hell, we want every other aspect. P.S. Skip, sorry to give you nightmare, out of many people on here you are last person I would wish to give nightmares. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Bio DB Master Database!  Nope, not gonna volunteer.  |
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