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Movie lovers usually end up with big video collections, not to mention big trivia collections. Coollector Movie Database can help you manage both your collection and your obsession. Its Movie Encyclopedia is an ever-growing database of tens of thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows, including credits. There's also a personal Owned Videos database, as well as an Existing Videos feature that automatically scans various merchants and displays video titles in print in various formats; it even computes and displays the best price for each. It's free, too.
Coollector's interface is split into side-by-side panels, with the program's three databases displayed in tabs on the left side with individual entries and search results on the right. Drop-down menus for Movies and Persons let us filter search results by various criteria. The Tools and Help entries were fairly typical; most options involved choosing which video formats to display and where best prices should appear. We were surprised not to see a search box but quickly learned that search strings appear automatically with rotated results when you start typing, which is great when you're not quite sure of a title or name. However, you must still be in either the Movies or Persons section to search either category, and there seems to be no global search. The database itself is pretty comprehensive and easy to use. Nearly every film has a cover shot, and many actors have head shots. The credits we checked were fairly complete, with the most notable absence being TV show credits for performers. Adding videos to our Owned Video database was as easy as clicking on the right title and format; pop-ups made editing the data easy, too. One thing sets Coollector Movie Database above all others, in our opinion: When you click on an actor's page, it displays either his or her birth date and current age; or birth and death dates, age at death, and number of years since they died. Call it Morbid Movie Mania; we just love that stuff.
While its film database offers a lot of easily accessible information, Coollector Movie Database probably won't supplant the Internet Movie Database as the database of record for the motion picture arts, but it doesn't try to be comprehensive, just useful, especially to collectors. That's a part it plays well.
Publisher's Description
From Coollector:
Coollector Movie Database is the only program to be a personalized movie database, as well as a video collection manager. The closest programs are just video collection managers. To begin with, the program includes a huge encyclopedia of 97,000 movies and series, updated weekly. Because it's installed on your computer, you can use it even when you're offline. The interface is very easy to use, and richly illustrated with movie posters, video covers, photographs of movie people, and even character screenshots. You can customize the layout to your liking, and make almost any search you can think of, with no need to be a database engineer.
Then, you'll start personalizing the database. You can rate all the movies that you've seen, to remember whether they were good or bad. You can maintain a wishlist with all the movies that you'd like to watch. You can even organize your video collection, remembering what you own, where it's stored, and what you've loaned to whom. You'll soon appreciate that the movie database is personalized. Indeed, your own movies are now highlighted, and colored icons will instantly remind you of how much you like a movie or a person.
As a movie lover, this will greatly help you when you have to pick up a movie, when watching TV, or going to the theaters. Does the movie have actors whom you like? Have you seen other movies from this director? At first glance you'll have the answer! And to help you even further in your choice, the program displays the IMDb rating and popularity of each movie, and provides a link to the trailers on Youtube.
If you're also a video collector, you'll easily list all the movies that you own. You can even scan the video files on your hard disk. They'll be added automatically, and you'll be able to play them from the program. Finally, if you want to grow your collection at the best price without missing a bargain, a database of existing videos is also included, with prices updated daily.
What's new in this version: Version 3.24.7 has added a presentation video on our website.
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"Good movie database."
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.22.8
Pros
Easy to use.
Uses bar code as well as manual entry.
Extensive database.
Free or paid, both good.Cons
Cannot change picture to English for some movies even though it shows as english in the preview.
Has to update everything, everytime it is opened. Can be very slow to download.
Nag screen for free version on startup.Summary
Overall, it is a good movie database that is easy to use. It does work in spite of the updates that have to be waited upon at the opening.
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"Great movie database."
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.22.6
Pros
Easy entry for movies.
Uses barcode scanner.
Retrieves data quickly from the net.
Rapid search by Actor, Movie title, etc.
Free, although it does nag you when you startup for registration.Cons
Does not export to a spreadsheet or text very well.
Can only use it on one computer unless you are quite knowledgable of computers.
Has to update program and movie database from the internet every startup.
No cross-platform use.Summary
Overall It is a good movie database that is easy to use if you only keep it on one computer. It is only for Windows, cannot get android or IOS or even Linux that I'm aware of.
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"GREAT! and AWESOME!!!!"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.20.5
Pros
its a useful download
Cons
nothing bad about this!
Summary
Awesome post. Here's a great tool that lets you build any type of database apps for web and mobile fast and without coding http://www.caspio.com/
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"Still nothing similar for music?"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.20.5
Pros
my comments refer to music, not movies... sorry
Cons
my comments refer to music, not movies... sorry
Summary
There's music organizers, but I still see nothing giving details about individual songs, artists, renditions, etc.; just databases to manage what you have (iTunes, Winamp, etc). Would be nice to see the history of a song, how far it rated on "Top 10s", Who initially recorded it, etc. I have an old book, from the UK on songs that are golden, c1964; lots of valuable info in it; but haven't seen anything since that even remotely comes close.
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"$12.99 Price??"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.19.9
Pros
A great program, and was free.
Cons
Now, CNet says "Free to try, $12.99 to buy"?
A mistake by CNet, perhaps?Summary
I guess I need to stop and think if this is worth $12.99 to me - I realize it may very well be worth it for some.
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"A fun way to keep track of DVD inventory"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.19.3
Pros
Easy to use.
Cons
Not all DVDs in my collection are listed in yours.
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"COOLLECTOR - THE FINAL SOLUTION"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.18
Pros
More than 80.000 movies in the database, create private database, great support, prizes, IMDB, wishlist, loanlist, rate your movies, barcode scanning, clear interface, many search options, super fast scanning of all devices, very high "hit" rate, scalable images, adjust view to your wishes and view info of all actors/actrices.
Not one other program on the market gives you what Coollector gives you !!!Cons
Fontsize not resizable, no user definable inputfields
Summary
Just the best program i ever used
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"Best I've seen - keep up the great work!"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.17
Pros
Many movies I have came in sets - this program gives me the sets as well as, the indivual movies - I have over 7000 disks in my collection and it has proven very hard to try and keep up - with your program I am getting there-thank you
Cons
I have covers for movies & I haven't found a way to scan & upload - hard to help when I don't know what to do - sry - Great Program!!
Summary
Great Great Great - & Thank you
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"TOP, fast scanning and great support"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.16
Pros
Super fast scanning, Rating system, mark as wished - ordered, lots of information, great support, add movies automaticly or by hand, FREEWARE, clear interface, add private collections, more than 80.000 movies already in the database
Cons
No user input/link-fields, fontsize a bit small
Summary
The fastest program on the market for free !!
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"this program is really useful and user friendly"
Version: Coollector Movie Database 3.15
Pros
this program is really useful and user friendly
Cons
this program is really useful and user friendly
