As I’ve mentioned before, I have a relatively large DVD collection. Over 400 movies and over 100 seasons of TV shows. This leads to a bit of a logistical problem whenever I’m at the store shopping for more DVDs. Sometimes I forget what I have and I end up buying the same DVD twice.
So I started looking for a DVD cataloging application. Something that would allow me to store information about my collection. Now, I wanted to be able to access my DVD catalog from several different places. When I’m at work, it’d be nice to have web access to my collection so I don’t accidentally order a movie that I already own from some online retailer. I also wanted to be able to carry my collection around with me on my Windows Mobile phone, so whatever app I got needed to have some way of syncing with my phone.
At first, I found Collectorz.com Movie Collector. It sounded perfect. Large, robust application that allowed me to catalog my entire collection. Bar code scanner support so I didn’t need to manually enter every item. Export to HTML for web sites. And it supported Windows Mobile phones, in a way (I’ll get to that later).
