DVDSpot is Closing
I’m so disappointed! DVDSpot.com is a great site for cataloging DVDs and for finding something to watch, but now it is closing. Here is the notice on their front page:
On Wednesday October 15th DVDSpot will be closed permanently. This decision was made to allow us to focus on other great web properties. We sincerely appreciate everyone’s contribution to the DVDSpot community and hope you enjoyed the free services it provided. We understand many people will not want to lose their personal collection data, so we remind you that you can export that data to file by going to Membership Tools while logged in and clicking the Export to File button. This will create a file with all movies in your Owned and Watched lists.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. There has been almost no development on the site for a long time. But I’m still disappointed. Any suggestions for a replacement?
October 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am
Most current refugees of DVDSpot are either using DVDProfiler or suggesting it. Some like DVDAF.com but most (myself included) have issues with it. Meanwhile the regular board members have gathered at a new forum site http://bulletpointreview.com/forum/index.php
The owner of a program called collector is trying to get folks to use his product. At this point it is just a program for downloading there is now online access like DVDAF or Profiler have.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Creating new onilne DVD catalog system. Now in heavy development, forum up for feature suggestions. http://www.dvdcrate.com
October 25th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@Kirk: Thanks for the pointer. I looked at DVDProfiler before using DVDSpot. I had a bunch of trouble with it, but it was before I was blogging so I don’t remember what the actual issues were.
Maybe I’ll check it out again. The forum looks interesting if I want to discuss movies but it doesn’t solve the problem of archiving them. Thanks for the pointer, though.
@CmdrTallen: If DVD Crate has similar features to DVDSPot, I’ll definitely use it. It looks like you have an eta of 11/3. I’ll keep checking your site to see your progress.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:09 am
I am so sad! I bought a few more DVDs recently and went to add them to dvdspot today and just found out that they closed for good. I had no idea and lost all of my information. All of that time spent recording my DVDs is now a complete waste. I am really disappointed.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Dang! I lost all my dvd info!!!! I just found out today! They didnt even send a newsletter or something! uhu uhu uhu uhu
November 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Oh well… that was a lot of time wasted. Like a few other commenters, I didn’t even know they were closing. I keep a log on my site anyway, so I guess I will just focus on that from now on; like I was doing originally.