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While I love the picture and audio offered by Blu Ray, I just hated the fact it was so dofficult to properly calatog the movies. However, I believe I have come up with a pretty good future proof method. Even my wife was pretty impressed
Basically what I did was to create a contact category on Microsoft Outlook (I am assuming any email system can be used for this including hotmail - best is to use a program where you don't have other contacts) called 'Movies' and created one contact card for each movie I had. I entered the following information:
Name: Name of the movie (also filed by the name)
Company: Movie (basically my category to search by)
Job Title: Genre
Web Page Address: blank for now, but if I can copy my Blu ray disks, this will point to the location
Address: First line is for actor, director
City: catalog number (I have assigned a number for each disk in the order in which it was purchsed, so 300 is 25 and Pirates of the Caribbean 1 is # 6 etc). All disks are stored physically in ascending order as I buy them.
Notes: Has a synopsis of the movie as well as links to online reviews. I also put links to trailers where available (trailers are usually SD only)
Picture: I put in scanned art work for each title
Once I did this I had a superb catalog of all my titles. All I need to do is turn on my HTPC (which is connected to the same monitor as my Blu Ray player) and open up the contacts (which is open and once HTPC comes out of standby ready to be accessed almost immediately).
All of the cataloging and searching etc are managed by Outlook (for me). So if I wanted to watch a movie about volcanoes (I am not limited to the name but also can search by volcanoe in the description etc).
Another great benefit is that I can synch my contacts with my PDA phone (ATT Tilt) so I can view my catalog on my mobile device as well and don't really need to even turn on my HTPC in most cases.
Overall, I am really happy. The only difference between this and my DVD collection is that I can also click on play by selecting the link and it launches my media player on my HTPC.
I looked at several cataloging software, but in the end this worked best for me. Plus you can put in the phone number of the director if you have it
EDIT:
I just realized. If you don't like the address book type fields in Outlook, just go into the create new form option and you can pretty much rename each and every field as well as change icons etc. For instance, I now have fields called Genre (instead of title), Starring/Director, Year Released and Major Awards etc. Renaming the existing fields to reflect the terms you want to use (i.e. I no longer have a field called City - it is Location Index). The flexibility is amazing! Also, you can hide all the menus and all email views (so that only the contacts show up - with the search windows open).
Best disk cataloging software ever

Basically what I did was to create a contact category on Microsoft Outlook (I am assuming any email system can be used for this including hotmail - best is to use a program where you don't have other contacts) called 'Movies' and created one contact card for each movie I had. I entered the following information:
Name: Name of the movie (also filed by the name)
Company: Movie (basically my category to search by)
Job Title: Genre
Web Page Address: blank for now, but if I can copy my Blu ray disks, this will point to the location

Address: First line is for actor, director
City: catalog number (I have assigned a number for each disk in the order in which it was purchsed, so 300 is 25 and Pirates of the Caribbean 1 is # 6 etc). All disks are stored physically in ascending order as I buy them.
Notes: Has a synopsis of the movie as well as links to online reviews. I also put links to trailers where available (trailers are usually SD only)
Picture: I put in scanned art work for each title
Once I did this I had a superb catalog of all my titles. All I need to do is turn on my HTPC (which is connected to the same monitor as my Blu Ray player) and open up the contacts (which is open and once HTPC comes out of standby ready to be accessed almost immediately).
All of the cataloging and searching etc are managed by Outlook (for me). So if I wanted to watch a movie about volcanoes (I am not limited to the name but also can search by volcanoe in the description etc).
Another great benefit is that I can synch my contacts with my PDA phone (ATT Tilt) so I can view my catalog on my mobile device as well and don't really need to even turn on my HTPC in most cases.
Overall, I am really happy. The only difference between this and my DVD collection is that I can also click on play by selecting the link and it launches my media player on my HTPC.
I looked at several cataloging software, but in the end this worked best for me. Plus you can put in the phone number of the director if you have it

EDIT:
I just realized. If you don't like the address book type fields in Outlook, just go into the create new form option and you can pretty much rename each and every field as well as change icons etc. For instance, I now have fields called Genre (instead of title), Starring/Director, Year Released and Major Awards etc. Renaming the existing fields to reflect the terms you want to use (i.e. I no longer have a field called City - it is Location Index). The flexibility is amazing! Also, you can hide all the menus and all email views (so that only the contacts show up - with the search windows open).
Best disk cataloging software ever
