English > Feature Suggestions
Automatic notification when movies have been released on DVD
Hyomil:
I'd like to see PVD use the field 'Release:' date of a movie on DVD/Blu-ray to automatically notify you when it comes out. There could be a popup and/or a link like "3 new releases" you could click on that would display those 3 movies in the left pane. (or just set View > Group by > Release) If Release date = current date, then PVD would know to notify you; if Release date > current date, a message like "3 new releases" where the count would continue to accumulate as more release dates passed. To stop future notifications, the user could either delete the contents of the 'Release:' field or uncheck the 'Wish' box.
http://www.videoeta.com is a site that does this by sending you an email, but they have a limited database.
Joe.au:
Creepy man.
rick.ca:
It's not necessary to use an existing field. If something like this were implemented, it would probably use an existing field. But more to the point, a field can't detect that related external data has changed (or come into existence). So how, exactly, do you propose such a feature work? Should it poll the source continuously for releases for all movies in the database? That doesn't seem practical. If VideoETA has only a "limited" database, where would the data come from?
I'm not sure it's the best source, but it would be more practical to add the ability to import the IMDb DVD page. You could then import/update that for your wish items as needed, and then search those for the availability of DVD new releases. But I think my existing solution is much cleaner. I import the Allmovies link to it's DVD page and save it as a hyperlink. If there are no releases, there's no link. If there are releases, the link takes me to a complete list of them. Each release in the list is linked to a page of details for that release.
Ivek23:
--- Quote ---I import the Allmovies link to it's DVD page and save it as a hyperlink.
--- End quote ---
Code is here.
I use Mass often this Hyperlink for access to details set for DVD Release.
nostra:
I think he just wants a notification when current date = release date for one or more records.
I have notifications in my TODO list already.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version