Quoting rdodolak:

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I'm afraid this program is moving closer and closer to life support as time goes on. 

I feel the same way. 

While I am happy to see an update "announced" (well, I guess mentioned is more like it), I must admit I was slightly disappointed to see it called 3.9.5 rather than 4.0.

Still, it will probably bring some important/needed amendments (like the addition for 4K discs) and is very welcome...

Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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I doubt you will ever see a 4.0... if you look at the difference between 2.x and 3.x it is massive, i know that some companies like Mozilla and Google are pushing x.0 versions monthly on some software, but Ken is old school. a 4.0 release would be a massive change and i don't think there is enough financial incentive to do such a large update.

I mostly agree with you on this. I think a big enough difference would be the change of the "credited as" a system, possibly going to a system where different releases of the same movie share the cast list. This kind of change was hinted at in the past, but whether there is, as you say, still enough incentive to actually do this remains to be seen.

Maybe if he were to decide that upgrading to 4.0 requires the purchase of another license, it could work out, but he may need to consider how many users would be alienated by such a move versus those who would pitch in happily.

After all these years there still seems to be no other software on the market of similar quality for DVD collecting (I have not investigated in a while though).

Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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I doubt you will ever see a 4.0...  and i don't think there is enough financial incentive to do such a large update.

This is the major question: Either there is a business model built, which allows improvement, or the current business dies. If there is no improvement, the current user base drops off one by one (many of the power users are already gone), and no new users jump in and generate a revenue.

There is massive potential of improvement:
• The database design has to be changes, to reflect the need for a working linking system (not only the linking of persons, also the title-profile scheme does not work out)
• We need new media types and even medialess collections will get more important - therefore we need connection to media services on the web...
• We need better moderation of the forum - especially the rule setting needs vast improvement

And these are only the points itching the most...

Only promising a v4.0 to sell new licenses will not cope with the current situation. This will only split up the current user base. And this split alone could deal the deathblow to the whole product.

On the other hand, running the data base and the forum costs money!

Out of this, I can only see a type of monthly/yearly fee for improvement, providing the database and moderating the forum. But out of the current mess, it won't be an easy job to convince the current user base to convert their licenses...

... since Darwin we know: Improve or die.

From my point of view little more development would not encourage me to throw in any money - and most of the times I see it like this, money is money, regardless if it is one Euor/Dollar/... or 100 - I won't pay for a slower death...

If there is significant improvement - not only in the program code - I for my part would not hesitate to throw in one or two Euros a month. But this is a matter of personal preference.

Quoting Lowpro:

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to whistle dixie for me

That's what Youtube is for.

Quoting Lowpro:

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Ultimately I don't need the online database

Especially not since AiAustria propagated that uncredited local post post production people should be added to the Cast. It's people like him who ruin the database.

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