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When you buy digital titles, they DON'T get dropped. They will remain in your "library" even if they are pulled from the store. You would lose your titles only if the store went out of business.
Or they get bought by/merged with another company who decides not to support that. Looking at the Cruchyroll-Funimation debacle here.
Those Funimation digital copies came from Funimation physical discs, so it was a less egregious thing to lose the digital copies, because the original owners would still have the discs (unless they sold them).
Nowadays, tons of online items are digital-only, from games, to movies, to books, to mobile apps. Buying those would always be a risk because if they were gone, they would really be gone. | Posted: Topic Replies: 92, Topic Views: 16858 |  | | But in order for an alternative to be had, somebody has to code it in order to create that alternative. And that somebody could be one of you. Computers and programming are taught in primary schools. Surely there is someone among you with the skill set. I'm one, for one. Sooner or later you guys need to start taking matters into your hands like I did, one way or another. There is nothing to "figure out" if you are just here wishing a magical app would fall from the sky. | Posted: Topic Replies: 92, Topic Views: 16858 | | My app can import cast & crew automatically with just one button press. In DVD Profiler, even with the plugin, you have to do some manual copying and pasting.
This isn't really about doing it better than DVD Profiler, but about finding a replacement once DVD Profiler is gone. Ten years ago I already knew this day would come. You need to quit on a product at the right time rather than waiting for it to quit on you at the most inopportune time.
When you buy digital titles, they DON'T get dropped. They will remain in your "library" even if they are pulled from the store. You would lose your titles only if the store went out of business. At this stage, Invelos is (way) more likely to go out of business than online digital stores like Vudu, Google Play, Prime, etc., are. | Posted: Topic Replies: 92, Topic Views: 16858 | | | I took matters into my own hands about 10 years ago and created my own movie catalog tool. I wrote about it a few years ago here with some screenshots of what I did. In 2014 I already saw the handwriting on the wall: physical disc market declining, disc collecting more niche, catalog tools getting rare, etc. I have thousands of discs, and I didn't want to trust third-parties with the job. So I used my programming skills to create my own solutions. Programming is hard, but nothing is impossible. I still use DVD Profiler, but mostly for getting disc covers and disc specs. | Posted: Topic Replies: 92, Topic Views: 16858 | | Also, the first word after a colon or dash must be capitalized even if it is otherwise in lower case. E.g.:
Correct: Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home
Incorrect: Star Trek 4: the Voyage Home. | Posted: Topic Replies: 23, Topic Views: 4698 | |
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