No, this program catalogs DVDs, HD DVDs and BR DVDs sold in retail, not self made copies of downloaded files of any sort.

Yup, I understood that as weel. However, he's referring to mere files, that have to be stored somewhere. How would you catalog something like "C:\Movies\Lord of the Rings"?

I understand that you want to keep a border beetween illegal downloaded movies and the real ones that you paid for it.
But legal downloaded movies will take more and more place like iTune did for music.

I guess that Apple TV is the door for this.

Anyway, when this way of buying movies will become mainstream, I guess DVD profiler will take this in consideration.

Cheers.

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Probably not, because it's after all DVD Profiler, something that a file is not

Blu Ray Discs aren't DVDs either 

They are discs though .... and that's the issue I see with file profiling. Most of the fields would not make sense, e.g. covers, disc info, edition, etc? Others  would be difficult to determine/audit, e.g release date?

Files are completely different beasts.

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We do not allow self-made DVDs in any other form and yhat is all this is a self-made DVD.

I'm sorry to hear that.  No episode level profiling, no homegrown DVD support.  For all its bells and whistles, DVD Profiler is actually quite limited as a home video cataloging system.

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My interest in this is simple amusement at the thought of people actually storing films on HD....  $40K worth of movies on HD, crash and burn, I guess more than one user would learn a lesson...the HARD way.

If you're going to spend that kind of money on movies, you might as well get some RAID protected HDDs to store it on.  A rather small investment, considering...

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Quoting scotthm:

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Quoting skipnet50:

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We do not allow self-made DVDs in any other form and yhat is all this is a self-made DVD.

I'm sorry to hear that.  No episode level profiling, no homegrown DVD support.  For all its bells and whistles, DVD Profiler is actually quite limited as a home video cataloging system.

It's not allowed to upload it. Nothing stop you from using this data locally. Just add the data manually, or add a DVD version of the movie and change the profile. Only limitation is that you can't upload the profile. Notice the cover images for manually entered profiles will not show up in your online collection. Use location/slot info to stor the location of the files (notice it has limited length, you might need to use the notes field instead)

You can set up tags to mark if movies are DVDs or downloads, codec format, etc.

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My interest in this is simple amusement at the thought of people actually storing films on HD....  $40K worth of movies on HD, crash and burn, I guess more than one user would learn a lesson...the HARD way.

If you're going to spend that kind of money on movies, you might as well get some RAID protected HDDs to store it on.  A rather small investment, considering...

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Yes, I run RAID5 so my data is completely safe.... against a single disk failure. It is not safe against me deleting or overwriting by accident, controller/driver failure, Windows messing up the file system, lightening strike, thefts, fire, etc... Never ever mistake RAID for a backup. Any data I have bought is also on DVD, the movies I have downloaded of newsgroups (legal in the Netherlands) isn't as it's not really a big deal if I should loose it.