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My DVD List – List Titles I Own – finally, I have easily made a database of all of the DVDs that I own.

I did this by:

• “Borrowing” a huge list of DVD titles, UPCs, etc from a website with a less-than-secure CGI script (no, I’m not telling where)
• Cross-referencing that data with a local copy of IMDB
• Dumping the data into a MySQL database
• Writing a quick and dirty interface using PHP
• Using my serial barcode wand, scanned the barcodes on all of my DVDs – if the codes were found then it marked the entries that I have. If the code wasn’t found, then I had to enter them in manually – mostly these were Canadian-specific releases from Alliance Atlantis. For box sets that didn’t have barcodes on them anymore, I found them in the database, printed off their barcodes and taped them on.

Yes, I’m a total nerd. But now I know exactly what I do and don’t own!