I often want to get information about a title in the database without actually adding it to my collection, and right now I'm pretty sure I'm doing the dumb / slow way.

I initiate the "Add DVD to Collection" process, wait for "online collection scan" to complete, then input the UPC or the title, and after I've gotten what I need, cancel out of the "add" process.

There's bound to be a better way of doing this.

Thanks in advance.

I don't recall ever running across a search through the website (likely intentional as an extra precaution of protecting data from direct linking by other sites.) All of a dozen simple "backdoor" methods I have tried (editing a UPC for a title that I have which I can see data for, replacing it with the UPC of a title that I didn't have) in an attempt to access the entire dataset for a title required the title to be in my online collection already.


However, you can get a partial list of data at:
http://www.invelos.com/ProfileLinks.aspx?id=[X]  (replace [X] with the UPC)

It displays a thumbnail cover scan, locality, production year, media type, director, and the first five people listed in the cast. It's the same data given to you (I believe) if you do a preview of a profile while still in the Add DVD page looking through the titles. The purpose of the page, however, is the displaying of related external links.