Quoting DJ Doena:

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@stefank60: Not all U.S.ies, only Skip. If you want I quiet life in these forums, simply ignore all postings on which you see Walt Disney.

@Skip: No need to answer my post, I won't read it.

U.S.ies    I like that, never heard it put that way before.  

I like U.S.ies as well.  That's pretty good!

To chime in my own opinion.  I currently have nearly 1900 profiles in my database.  It has been invaluable for lots of reasons like remembering:
  ...which family member has borrowed what...
  ...the name of that actor who...
  ...the other movies that so and so did X in...
  ...keeping track of my inventory...
and best of all:
  ...Oh yeah, I do already have that DVD, so another double dip avoided...

IMHO - DVDP is worth the $30USD, and still a great bargain at twice the price.

If you're concerned about the price, hold off on buying a DVD or two and put the money into a registration code.

If you liked using the free version 2.4, chances are you will really like 3.x.

Yes, stefan, those would be "made-up" UPC#'s and are not allowed and probably why they were removed from the database. Sorry about that.

Skip

Quoting stefank60:

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well I just had a play with the new version and it failed to find two titles.

Went back to 2.4 and it found them no problem       

not a great start for version 3.0  (shrugs shoulders)

How did you search in the 3.0 database? By EAN/UPC, Disc ID and/or Title Search?
It could be, as Skip mentioned, that these were entries that had to be removed from the database for some reason.

Another possibility results from the fact that the 3.0 version uses the full EAN/UPC as opposed to 2.4 and also that 3.0 uses a more extended Disc ID than 2.4. As a result, when I and other users were converting their 2.4 local database to 3.0, quite a few entries failed to be converted. I (and I guess I'm not the only one) haven't found the time yet to look up all the data and enter them the way 3.0 wants it and contribute them to the central database. As a result, some perfectly valid entries may not have made it into the 3.0 central database yet. This goes for both EAN/UPC and Disc ID entries.

If you were searching by EAN/UPC and used the old 2.4 way of entering them, that could have caused the lack of results.

If you haven't already, you might try to do a Title Search in the 3.0 database for the missing entries and see if you can make a match to your two titles. Title searches are not affected by the changes mentioned above.

As time goes by, the 3.0 database will undoubtedly contain all valid entries that are in the 2.4 database and more (new releases can only be found in 3.0, as 2.4 is no longer being updated).

Good luck tracing your "missing" titles!

No worries skip

dee - yes I was using title search. I guess whether old ones appear , as you suggest, could depend if people who contributed to the old database :

1) Upgrade
2) bother getting missing entries added to their new database (I imagine they would)
3) If they upload

if they don't there could potentially be quite significant gaps in the new database   

Quoting lyonsden5:

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every valid title was imported from 2.4/5 to 3.0 after Invelos settled their "differences" with IVS. Anything that was supposed to be there before is now there. If it is not, it will never be, since it had something wrong with it to begin with (there may be a few exceptions of course).

Yes, there ARE exceptions, and more than "a few". Some perfectly valid entries failed to convert correctly - either not convert at all, or (worse) converted wrongly. Just a few days ago I came across a Dutch DVD for which the EAN was converted WRONGLY - which CREATES an invalid entry in the 3.0 database instead of eliminating one.

Quoting Ken Cole:

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Additionally, only profiles with associated images were converted.

Which is another reason why your statement is much too bold.

OK thanks for that.