So how does this expensive app compare to others? - mailing.lists.2005

I own DVDCache, DVDpedia and MovieCollector. Every time I wipe the main partition and reload programmes, I give all 3 a new try and each time I end up going back to DVDpedia. I don't scan codes so that feature is useless to me. I don't need or want as much catalogue information as MovieCollector gives me so many features are useless to me. Each of the 3 apps have their weaknesses but DVDpedia, at half the price, seems to be the most compatible for my needs. I had originally bought MovieCollector because it was billed as being compatible PC-Mac which it is... sort of. You can import a PC database into Mac but not the other way around, which made that feature useless for sharing databases with PC friends. I like that you can have separate Collector collections unlike pedia which keeps all info in one gigantic database, but multiple windows don't stay open so there's no drag&drop among collections so there's a lot of import/export unnecessarily. My +4000 titles in pedia's one database have slowed it to a crawl, but pedia imports the information from iMDb and amazon far faster and with less human-interaction than MovieCollector. So, in the scheme of things, I regret paying for Collector. YMMV depending on how large your collection becomes and how often you actually modify the database. I input daily, multiple times, while using other online applications.

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Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 06:48 AM PDT