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DVD Profiler. Next question.

The funny thing is, there are all sorts of programs out there that are useful with the CueCat, if you can just get it to work. For instance, DVD Profiler, a Windows database program that lets you keep track of your DVDs will accept barcode-read input.

If I could just get my CueCat to work with Windows XP...I've tried Catnip and YourCueCat drivers with no success yet. (I wonder if it could have anything to do with how I use a USB keyboard, so just have the 'cat plugged into the PS/2 slot without any keyboard attached to its other end?)

Personally even with my 1.5MB/s DSL I do not consider that a feature I'm looking for.

Number of reasons

A) The size of the file to get the quality of Video/Audio that I want. Basically I need a DVD worth of quality at a minimum, which is 5 - 10 GBs of space. I like the extras, trailers, etc. So to get this, I'd need to 'want to watch a movie' maybe a day after I decide to get the movie.

B) I'm a collector of sorts. I've got about 700 DVDs that I've impulse bought since 1996 or so. Granted I've only purchased about 700 CDs and a few hundred songs via iTunes. With that many DVDs and the associated data on them, if I wanted to have them for 'instant gratification' I'd need roughly 4.2TBs of storage. That doesn't account for even more stuff coming out over the next x number of years.

Granted newer encoding tech such as MPEG-4 vs. MPEG-2 might help with the storage requirements, but then I'd need to have the movie companies re-encode things like 'Better off Dead' or '*Batteries not included' which about 20 people probably would want, and then I'd need to re-spend money to get them that way.

DVDs have introduced a new phenomenon to the movie industry. People willing to buy them.

I bought 9 video tapes. The first six star trek movies & the original Star Wars trilogy (not that re-done versoin, the THX version)

Just my $0.02.

Well ... to start with here's my collection Now ... the movies (owned or not) which deserve special mention;
Memento - if you haven't seen it WATCH it now!
Clerks - hell anything by Kevin Smith
Snatch - hell anything by Guy Ritchie too!
Johnny Mnemonic - Keanu breaking into SciFi
Big Trouble - "I'd arrest him but my hands are full ... what with my dick and all" Jeanine Garofolo(sp?)
The First $20M - Good geek movie "This guy eats binary and shits C++"

There are more ... but this should do for now.

The first mini-series has been released in a 2 DVD set. Just check your local video store or your favorite online retailer *cough* DVD Empire *cough* ;) Always go for the wide screen directors cut.

DVD Profiler Collection

I use mine constantly to catalog new DVDS (With DVD Profiler... just scan, and it downloads info and cover images from online... took about 15min to catalog about 140 DVDs) and books (With ReaderWare, which uses the ISBN number on the book to pull info from various online retailers.)

One of the most idiotic items ever? Only if you were trying to sell something with it. ;^)