Just like it's big brother Movies HD, Movies now supports trailer watching for all your movies!

We had some issues submitting the latest version of Movies to Apple - as Apple decided to not allow apps which use the pre-iOS4 functions for barcode scanning, but now our barcode engine is updated to support iOS4 and we're ready to roll.

Movies trailer support

Of course, we have worked hard on this update - and even though it's not packed with new features, it does contain some smaller tweaks and visual enhancements which will make your browsing experience even better!

Next on our release list are Movies HD 1.6 and Movies 2.3 which will support live syncing as well as some other major improvements.

Within 2 weeks after the initial release of iPhone 4 we updated Movies for iPhone to use the outstanding displaying features of iPhone 4.

Movies for iPhone4

Movies now displays cover art, as well the book shelf and all icons using the iPhone 4's native resolution, resulting in a crystal clear bookshelf. And we're already working on a new version of Movies, which will extend the current feature set yet some more.

So don't hold your breath, just grab a copy of the latest version of Movies for iPhone!

We’re currently working hard on updates to Movies, and one of them is support for iPhone 4's Retina display.

iPhone 4 Retina

Yes - we plan to release an update to Movies which supports to retina display of iPhone 4 in just 1 week time! Crisp graphics and an even more gorgeous experience then the one you enjoy today!

So stay tuned for App Store updates, and if you have any other suggestion - feel free to let us know!

Month after month, Netwalk continues to deliver new features to Movies - our flagship app: mark your movies as seen (or not seen) and easily filter on this field. One small step for man, a big step for mankind.

Together with this option, we introduced the possibility to refetch all movie details - in case you imported from a backup with limited information from a 3rd party movie application.

Movies 2.2 promo

We're also working very hard on "LiveSync", the option which will allow Movies HD to synchronize its data live with Movies without needing your Mac or PC! We plan to deliver this feature by the end of May, so stay tuned for the future updates.

If you'd have suggestions for Movies (or Movies HD), you're welcome to share them with us (either on our forum, as a comment on this post, or by using our contact page)!

As the iPad becomes available in the US within less then a week, it's time we introduce our latest creation: Movies HD.

Just like our iPhone app Movies, Movies HD is a movie catalog application which allows to quickly catalog your complete movie collection. It allows to import from various popular desktop apps (like Delicious Library, Collectorz Movie Collector, Ant Movie Collection, Movie Label 2011, ...) or allows to create your library on-the-fly (using various data sources which allow to enter movies by barcode number or movie title).

Movies for iPad - Landscape

Movies HD shows your movie collection in a graphically stunning way, giving you the ultimate iPad experience!

As the iPad is about to be released within a month, we are working very hard on 2 iPad apps which we plan to release just before the iPad launch.

One of them is Movies - our flagship app which is already available on the iPhone. As the iPad offers a whoppy 1024 by 768 pixels screen, this allows us to add lots of detail into the already gorgeous screens of the Movies app. Below you'll some screenshots of the early development stage of "Movies for iPad".

Movies for iPad - Landscape

Movies for iPad - Movie details

If you want to suggest a feature, or comment on the interface: speak freely!

As of today, Movies supports moviemeter.nl as a data source.

Movies is designed to fetch movie details from a datasource which can be chosen by you at runtime. In Movies, just go to the [Settings] tab, and tap on [Data Source]. A list of data sources will be shown, and depending on the one you choose, different movie information is returned (if you live in the Netherlands, you might prefer moviemeter.nl, as they return a dutch plot for a movie).

From time to time, we add new data sources (or update existing ones in case additional fields are made public), and today we added moviemeter.nl as a data source for dutch users.

If you want your site to be added as a data source, feel free to contact us (and provide us with a nice API to fetch the movie details).

This page describes the data format used in Movies to export and import your movie collection. You can use this page as a guide to write a converter from your favorite desktop movie application to Movies.

The data format for Movies as a standard, UTF-8 encoded XML file. It contains 1 top-level element, <XMM_Movie_Database>. Then, for each movie, a <Movie> XML element is added, whereby all movie fields reside in their own XML element. The elements supported are:

A sample XML file, with 1 movie in it, might look like this:

export.xml

In order to upload this to Movies (through FTP), you should ZIP the XML file as well as all cover art. Make sure the ZIP file does NOT contain any folder structure (i.e. all files should reside in the ROOT of the ZIP file).

After working for quite some time on the new Movies release, w're pleased Apple has pushed the approval process to its limits and approved Movies in less then 8 hours after initial submission - thank you Apple!

Movies 2 contains a lot of cool new features:

• Fullscreen CoverFlow (improved performance, new detailview)
• Improved barcode engine (live scanner)
• Filter tab to filter on media type, lend-to and genre
• Multiple data sources (including UK, Germany, Japan, ...)
• Cover-on-the-web - to seek for covert art through Google Images
• Classic black and classic white themes
• Option to clear whole database (prior to e.g. restoring)

As you can see, the list is quite long - and we have more features planned for next updates (TeaserView being one of the big ones). If you have suggestions too, you're always welcome to share them with us (either by adding a comment to this post, writing something in our support forum or mailing us).

We just added a conversion script to convert the movie exports from MBase2 and Personal Video Database (PVD) into the Movies format. This allows you to easily import "backups" from MBase2 and PVD into Movies - without the need to type in anything!

We already had support for ANT, Extreme Movie Manager and DVD Profiler. We added a small tutorial in order to help you with the conversion process.

In the meantime, we are also working very hard on Movies 2 which we plan to finalize at the end of this week. We recently added a "web cover search" option, which allows to lookup covers on the web within Movies and use those instead of the ones provided by our data source.

So hold your breath a few more days, and start your download engines as soon as Movies 2 hits the App Store!