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Recoil Therapy
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 12:43PM
Does anyone know of a site that will allow you to input the title of a film & it will pull up the upc code (or a list of movies to pick from). I've been putting my movies into DVD Profiler but have several that are just the disk without the cover. I know I can just add it without the code but I would like to have as much info there as possible.

Thanks.

RT

Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 1:15PM
does dvd profiler do porn?
Kperv
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 1:18PM
Yes, but I don't think there have been a whole lot of titles entered.
Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 1:29PM
i just downloaded a copy to check it out.
Kperv
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 2:02PM
The program isn't much to look at, IMHO.
The GUI is a down right nasty experience, but the database of user supplied data is great as far as non-porn DVDs are concerned.

I tried it out on an old 486, but of the porn titles I entered, it only knew approx. 1 in 5, and they had lots of erroneous info.

If it had run under Linux, I'd have bought a license and entered all my porn movies.
Instead I made my own database and put the data in that.
Now I just need to build a PHP front-end. Curse my lazy ass.

 
threesomebody
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 3:07PM
I use DVD profiler, too. I usually just find the movie on SearchExtreme.com or another site, and look at a large cover image. From there I can view the upc code. I have never been unable to find one. It can be a pain in the ass, though.
Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 3:35PM
which sites display UPC codes?
Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 3:37PM
BTW, I've got them in our database. Never really thought there was a reason to display them though.
Recoil Therapy
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 9:56PM
Thanks for the replies all.

3SB I'll have to check that out, it sounds cubersome but doable.

Drew, I can't see any reason why I would need them more than once. However for speed of input I doubt if there is a faster way to compile your own catalog. I was able to input about 500 (mainstream) movies into my list in a little less than three hours. That includes many trips to the living room to grab a new stack of movies to input.

Kperv, of the porn movies my results were the opposite of yours, I was getting 80%+ with the upc code. Then again mine were a lot of older titles from bigger companies (Vivid, Wicked, Caballero, Adam & Eve, etc).

I think that I only have less than 10 that I need to track down. SearchExtreme shouldn't take too long.

RT

Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 10:34PM
I don't know if this has changed but, a long time ago when I spoke with someone from one of ADT's affiliates regarding their warehouse system, I was told that, with porn DVD's, UPC barcodes are not a great identifier of uniqueness.

I was told that some companies don't bother putting a UPC on the disc and that some companies that do, put the same UPC barcode on every disc they sell.

As far as DVD Profiler is concerned, they've never had a problem with porn. But I think that they rely on the first person with a disc to input the data and cover info. Then subsequent owners of that disc can utilize that info. When I looked at it a few years ago, there were very few porn titles listed.

Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 10:51PM
It's true that UPC codes in pornland aren't as useful as they are in the mainstream world. It's getting better though. Out of the 70,000 or so items in the price search we have UPCs for about a third of them.

Jeff @ IAFD All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 20 2006 : 12:55AM
I use DVD Profiler as well, and if you do a search by title and download the profile from the site, you'll get as much info there as possible... provided the guy/gal who put the title in used the UPC code...
Kperv
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Posted - Jan 20 2006 : 2:39AM
Congratulations on that.
It's a bit odd though, mine were mostly Wicked and Adam & Eve titles too.
I entered an A&E title or two of my own, and fixed up a couple of the badly entered ones, before I couldn't take that clunky GUI interface anymore and how unstable it was on that old 486.

Still, given its extensive mainstream database it's still the king of those applications.




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