The DVD Profiler Thread!

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Post by saltysam »

My hd-dvds have gone down from around 85 to 51,that will continue to drop.blu-rays will increase and dvds will decrease :) for my total to be less than a 1000 i must have got rid of more than i thought in recent months
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Post by bradavon »

Cool. Is your plan to replace all HD-DVDs with BD over time? I thought you planned to not bother upgrading some. I guess playing everything on the one Player is the plan.
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Post by saltysam »

If the cost is minimal,say no more than a fiver i'll get the BD. Depends on the title really and what i'd get for the hd-dvd. for example i got the Warriors BD brand new on ebay for £11 last week,my hd-dvd is up to over £8 on ebay with a day left. Total Recall i sold for £11 got the BD for under £12.But obviously the hd-dvd titles that are £2.99 everywhere i'm going to struggle replacing at little cost so i'll keep them.
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Post by saltysam »

can i transfer dvd profiler to my new computer easily enough? is it straightforward.don´t fancy loading all my discs again :lol:
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Post by bradavon »

You have to load them again :D. Seriously it's dead simple. You have two ways of doing it:

1. Click the "File" menu --> Backup Database (make sure everything is ticked) to a CD/DVD/USB Stick, then --> File --> Restore Database from the new computer.
2. Click the "Online" menu --> DVD Profiler Online --> Change it from Upload to Download. This downloads your profile from the web back to your PC.

Obviously the former is the better way of doing it. The latter has to re-download all the photos etc... again. The former gets them from the backup which is compressed into a single file.

I regularly backup my database. It takes way too long to re-create it.
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Post by saltysam »

ok Brad cheers will do it from a usb stick when i get back home next week.
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Post by bradavon »

You shouldn't have any problems. The Backup/Restore functionality will restore it perfectly. Install it first and off you go.

Oops I got my formers and latters mixed up. It should've said (corrected above):
Obviously the former is the better way of doing it. The latter has to re-download all the photos etc... again. The former gets them from the backup which is compressed into a single file.
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Re: The DVD Profiler Thread!

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Re: The DVD Profiler Thread!

Post by bradavon »

Check out the Release Notes, lots of cool stuff:

http://www.invelos.com/dvdpro/ReleaseNotes.aspx

You'll have to upgrade as 3.5.1 can no longer talk to the online database.

Make sure you backup before upgrading. Mine didn't warn me it was going to delete my database and create a new one. How nice! Thankfully I've got a backup.