| Registered: June 13, 2007 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi,
I'm longing for some new columns, especially in the Wishlist, but they may as well be available in other views as well! This would really help me decide on movies to purchase, when at the store...
My suggested columns:
First of all, it would be great if you could retrieve info from the following places:
1. IMDB.com - user rating
2. RottenTomatoes.com - review rating
3. Kids-In-Mind.com - better parental advisory rating (gives separate ratings for nudity/sex, violence/gore, and Language. (3 new columns - or I suppose you could concatenate into one column, i.e. "8/6/5").
4. Possibly a site that has info on transfer/video/audio quality. highdefdigest.com (for BR or HDDVD perhaps) and maybe dvdverdict.com for dvd's.
Since the two first suggested review sites may have scores that change over time, it is useful on the detail screen to show what date the last recorded score was from. However, I think just showing the score is enough in the column view of all the movies.
It would be great to also have links to the various sites from the detail info. (I.e. I could go to the appropriate rottentomatoes view by pressing "rottentomatoes.com".
I'm guessing it would be hard to automate retrieving data for these columns (since I doubt they use upc numbers as keys..), but if users can enter it manually, I would be happy to do my part, and add say info for a 100 of my dvd's... | | | | Last edited: by donutman |
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| Registered: June 13, 2007 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | PS: Amazon could be another alternative for user reviews, since they are listed on a disc, rather than a movie. Perhaps there is some UPC info available so you could actually automate? |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Do those sites allow other programs to aggregate their review data?
I know amazon.com allows their data to be used on websites that send them referrals, but beyond that, what are the TOS? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | Amazon.com provides the Amazon E-Commerce Service for free, one only needs to get a free ID. Retrieval of product data (including reviews) in XML format should be quite easy with that. Using it, one could create a HTML view for DVDP with some basic java script code to get reviews from Amazon. I just suggest to read their License Agreement (I didn't  ) to make sure not to violate it. Maybe one of the HTML gurus volunteers...  | | | | Last edited: by detlefs |
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| Registered: June 13, 2007 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good points, if anyone are experts in the area, it would be greatly appreciated if they could look into it  On a sidenote, I doubt RottenTomatoes can do much, seeing they are ripping off reviews from 100+ sites themselves  |
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