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Introduction
Welcome to the Pre Release of My Movies 5.10.
My Movies 5.10 introduces support for generic movie profiles in My Movies, a feature that was originally planned for My Movies 5, but was postposed to be able to deliver the My Movies 5 software package quicker.
With the introduction of generic movie profiles, we are adding a third meta-data offering to our service, so that there are now Disc Titles (DVD, Blu-ray, HD DVD), Movies and TV Series.
The purpose of introducing movie profiles are to provide better support for users content that are not specifically on disc titles, such as digital downloads, but it can also be used to track older media such as VHS, LaserDisc and similar, but without support for barcodes.
The Pre Release is initially being opened for users with 2500 points, for the purpose of limiting incoming feedback to a level that we can handle.
But is DVD and Blu-ray's not movies?
DVD and Blu-ray media certainly can contain movies, similar to how they can contact TV Series, but still, there are several reasons why our data for disc titles are not ideal for use with product features for digital downloads.
Examples are that DVD and Blu-ray titles have audio track languages and subtitle languages that typically do not represent what a digitally downloaded file contains, descriptions may refer to offerings that are specific for the individual disc title releases, and studios releasing a disc title may not always be the same as production companies involved in the creation of the movie.
We have created a page which explains the difference between disc titles and the new generic movie profiles in details. It is recommended that you read this page
herehere.
Initial Data Limitations - We need your help!
We have decided on providing movie meta-data through our own service, rather than basing the functionality on other services such as themoviedb.org - to be able to deliver the feature set we would like, it is important for us to have full control over the data through our own service.
Through our online service, we have for a while had an option to contribute movie theater posters for movies, as well as movie backdrops, but we have not had specific generic movie meta-data.
To have an initial offering of data, we have therefore build a database that is based on a combination of the contributed movie theater posters and backdrops, and, an import of data from our disc title database, on data that is directly transferable, based on most popular profiles. This means that we have a relatively good coverage initially, but it also means that there may be glitches in the data, such as titles that include unwanted text, or titles where the description refers to the DVD or Blu-ray specifically, and it also means that there are some data that is not available on any profile, because it is not directly transferable from disc titles.
It is our hope that many of our beloved users will help us by improving the generic movie data, by correcting and contributing data, allowing us to quickly have a good accuracy and coverage. Your help is especially requested for the following situation:
- Contribute movies that does not exist. You can search specifically by an IMDB id (tt0000000) to ensure if a title exists.
- Correct titles that you find to contain unwanted text that may refer to a disc title, multi disc title or similar.
- Correct descriptions that you find to refer to disc specific content.
- Contribute translated descriptions if your primary language is not English.
- Contribute data that is lacking from the profiles.
You will of course earn contribution points for added data, but as with our existing database, we cannot give contribution points for changes to existing data - we do hope that you will help us correcting incorrect data anyways, for the benefit of everyone. Our
contribution introduction page will contain details about earned points.