Started looking for DVD database three days ago, downloaded three based on reviews and user comments on various sites (two of which were freeware), then payed the 20$ for this one. With a growing collection, but not too big yet, I wanted to be able to look for director/actor and find a list of movies. With DVD Database X I got much much more, and much much easier as I had imagined. Using IMDB and Amazon I found all my movies so far (no surprise as I order from amazon.co.uk almost exclusively), and got a bunch of information including the DVD cover images. Using the preferences page I could decide what information I wanted to see in my table, and in what order. The same when it comes to exporting the information. It makes e.g. a html-page with just the information you desire (image/director/year/genre/rating), this way you can make nice (if not extremely practical) pages e.g. for friends to see what you have on offer. It also exports all this information (whatever you want) to text-file in a way that allows you to import all this data in a separate database of your own choice (e.g. MySQL) to which you can make your own web-interface to make your database searchable via the internets (that bit you have to do yourself of course).

Perhaps it were the DVD cover images that made me decide to buy it within less than 5 minutes. Or the information that is downloaded by searching IMDB (i.e. a whole list of actors, not just the leading two or so, as often the case with the Amazon search). Or just seeing your own collection grow on screen, and finally rating them, then order them such, then such, etc. I was having fun!

And within no time I also found two things I would like to see added to a future version (1.5.1 is already a month old!).

1) I like to be able to add the Amazon-specific information (reviews, amazon-link, release date, studio, couple more) to the IMDB information (which has many more actors as well as a simple but very useful plot description). I find myself adding a movie with one search, then with the other, then cut and paste. That is, I did that for three movies, then gave up because it is too much work and, in principle, should be easy to program by someone who had already done this much. So, having added "Manhattan" via IMDB, I like to repeat the search with Amazon and have it fill up all the empty fields for Manhattan without overwriting anything IMDB already found. That would be good.

2) A much more minor issue. When I have a link to the movie, and I export to html, I would like to have this link attached to the icon of the DVD cover, as one is generally used to, and not as a text-string (which is both ugly (because very much longer than the information I want on this page) and rather unpractical).

In conclusion I can say that I found this application stable, useful, and fun. For the beginning (mostly amazon-based) collector, who wants little more than to enjoy his collection (although much more can be done with this tool!), I think this is pretty darn close to perfect.