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[Jarfa]

Another useful profile

[Jarfa]

Well, it's a good idea, but...

the list points to editions that already own and are in my list.
Guessing that only US/CAN titles are searched

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Jarfa

Nice. Now we can ask other users about some editions we may want

Example: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Amore...1/#Collections

Originally Posted by Jarfa

Another useful profile

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5370

Originally Posted by Jarfa

the list points to editions that already own and are in my list. Guessing that only US/CAN titles are searched

Those are supposed to be filtered... I'll take a look at your collection and see what's wrong, I suspect that the master movie ids aren't set properly. (The master movie ids are unique movie ids, so different country/editions have the same unique master movie id. This is a part of the site that will go online next year).

Edit: your collection is private, so I can't check it out
Which titles do you get recommendations for that are already in your collection?

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Shallow_

When browsing through the new feature 'Recommendations' I found several films I am 100% sure I have previously added when I purchased them.
Anyone else experience this ?

Found so far:
-The Fall
-Harts War
-Survival of the dead
-Pink Panther 2
-Ghostbusters

They are all in your collection, you have too many titles!
Use search collection to find them easier

[iceman]

Originally Posted by master_8ball

Also I notice when looking through recommendations if you are on say page 3 and then select a different genre to view and hit update, the new recommendations come up but stay on page 3 instead of defaulting back to the page 1 of recommendations.

Fixed!

Originally Posted by master_8ball

Lastly, when looking at Animation recommendations it gives me 3 page options, but only the first page has anything on it, when I hit next to go to page 2 or 3 they are blank. It did not do this when I went through Action and Horror recommendations.

Fixed!

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Jarfa

A few examples. First page of recommendations.

The Shining
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=9948
Master and Commander
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=10829
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=4285
Bonnie and Clyde
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=9772
Alien Anthology
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=13623

Originally Posted by master_8ball

I am having the same issue with titles being recommended that I have as Canadian releases.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology
The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (I have steelbook set)

As I suspected the problem with all those titles is that the master movie ids aren't set, so the recommendations feature can't match them properly. We are working on updating all titles and box-sets and later on it will be impossible to create new titles without a master movie id set.

Originally Posted by Jarfa

Allow me to contribute a little bit.

Master movie IDs = internal number

Recommendations will be a feature always matching internal ID, and never another database field.

This is exactly how it works

Originally Posted by Jarfa

My 2 cents to see EAN exclusives, and not the same EAN in database for the same edition, in different countries.

We will take a look at EAN matching

[iceman]

Originally Posted by John72953

Damn you guys are fast!

John

I looked at your recommendations and using genre = Music in the filter should be very useful for you. Your collection was actually one of the reasons we implemented the genre filter, because it's relatively very Music heavy

[iceman]

Originally Posted by John72953

Nice! Thanks iceman! Did I ever say you guys are the best? And the fastest guns on the web?

John

Thanks

[Bk_Tan]

I'd like to recommend the site work on 2 things, with difficulties at the extremes of the spectrum.

First, the easy one, I think that there should be links to other versions/regions of the same movie listed under a sub-heading on each movie page.

Second, the difficult one, to actually have a comprehensive list of special features on each release. A good example would be the CinemaSquid listings. After all, it does not make sense for the 'official' site to not have these. Reviews are a starting point but they are not the end-all seeing how some choose to simply touch on what was good.

There are people who don't care and just care about the movie itself, AV quality but there are others who do care and thus it should be catered for seeing as there still aren't that many releases. To make it easier, it could be a user-generated page so that peopel can continue updating it until it's complete which it would then be locked so there isn't that immense workload for the few reviewers.

[iceman]

You can now select if you want to count your collection by number of unique movies or unique SKUs:
https://www.blu-ray.com/community/settings.php

[iceman]

You can now sort movie lists by "collection count" = how many members have the title in their collection.

[iceman]

A "Popularity" rating has been added (0-100%) to all BD entries/profiles. It's still very experimental, but it gives a decent rating of how popular/hot a title is.

[iceman]

Better filters added for the Recommendations feature.

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Desphils

I'm having a problem with the following title in my collection:

Dirty Harry Collection (2010) -->(1 movies, 1 SKUs)
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dirty...-Blu-ray/8489/

The Dirty Harry Collection includes 'Dirty Harry', 'Magnum Force', 'The Enforcer', 'Sudden Impact' and 'The Dead Pool' and should therefore be counted as 5 movies instead of 1. Please fix this.

I see you already fixed this yourself

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Love the "Statistics" section in the "My Collection" feature . However, it would be nice if we could select from either % or the actual number.

Done (both are now displayed)

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Maybe for a future addition for "My Collection" > "Statistics" could include categories for "Favorite Director" and "Favorite Actor/Actress" ?

Good suggestion
We can/should definitely add that. We will also redo the cast & crew system next year, so it will be much improved.

[The Phantom Stranger]

I have run into a problem trying to duplicate the Picture Quality Tiers here on Blu-ray.com. An early starting version can be found here. Apparently there is a 30000-character limit per post, which I am running into on most of the individual tiers. Is this a problem that can be worked around, or a limitation of the forum's software and/or servers? Breaking up the tiers manually on my part is possible, but would require too much time for me to contemplate. The list is well over 1300 ranked Blu-rays at this point, broken into 5 main tiers and further sub-tiers within each main tier.

Another question, does the forum handle the "jumpto" HTML tag? Unless I have something turned off, it appears to not work when creating a post.

[iceman]

You will now receive an (optional) e-mail notification whenever a member comments in your home theater gallery. Edit the site preferences to disable e-mail notifications.

[iceman]

Originally Posted by 4K2K

How is it calculated/ what is the popularity score based on?

Magic juice

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Not sure if this just happened or if I just noticed, but PS3 titles in your Wishlist are showing up in the "PS3 Collection" count total.

Does it help if you update your PS3 collection once?