Not all of us watch movies in theaters, there are many digital mediums like bluray, dvd, netflix, amazon, various online platforms
I've been utilizing Rotten Tomatoes's dvd release_date as an estimate for digital_release_date, however their data is extremely inaccurate and missing many movies, manually marking digital_release_date's is even a better alternative (I've also recently discovered that they deleted my api_key, for no reason and without any notice)
I don't think it would require much overhead for themoviedb to add a digital_release_date field and I think it would be extremely useful, I personally don't utilize the release_date yet, however digital_release_date was a priority
Editors can simply set the digital_release_date's of movies when they discover that a movie is digitally released, or beforehand if the date is available
What do you guys think?
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Resposta de Travis Bell
no 25 de setembro do 2014 ás 2:12PM
Hey kaansoral,
This will be covered when ticket #527 gets completed. Basically, the current way release dates work needs to be completed overhauled. It's a lot of work which is why it hasn't been done yet.
Resposta de kaansoral
no 25 de setembro do 2014 ás 2:54PM
Hi
Thanks for the update
I see the complexity of the situation, I'm guessing we won't see the new release_date system for some time
I'm guessing the new release dates will be accessible from a new sub-branch (like /credits /images), is there any chance to have a temporary "min_digital_release_date" similar to "release_date", that will be replaced by a derived value when the new system rolls out? (when the new release date system rolls out, the min/derived value could stay at the main /movie/id level, maybe)
The min value of the various digital release date's is particularly significant, as it represents the date when a movie is accessible online and outside the theaters
I actually don't think such a temporary value will be implemented, but just trying my chances :)
Resposta de kaansoral
no 26 de outubro do 2014 ás 2:50PM
Is there an ETA for this feature? :)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9321947/how-to-get-dvd-release-dates-of-movies-programatically
rotten tomatoes API used to be a not-so-bad source for dvd release dates, however for some reason they stopped allowing people to use their API easily, would be great to replace that source of information with themoviedb
Resposta de Travis Bell
no 27 de outubro do 2014 ás 10:12AM
Hi kaansoral,
No ETA but it is something that will get looked at soon. Soon as in probably the next month or so.
Resposta de kaansoral
no 27 de outubro do 2014 ás 4:12PM
Great to hear, thank you
Anxiously waiting :)
Resposta de Travis Bell
no 13 de xaneiro do 2016 ás 1:07PM
Hi guys,
While we still don't support specifying a country release filter on discover (this will be coming), we do now support multiple release dates per country and type (which includes digital/physical). You can read more about his here.
There's a new API method that supports returning this data which is documented here.
Cheers.
Resposta de kaansoral
no 14 de xaneiro do 2016 ás 3:12AM
HI Travis,
Thanks a lot for the update
I personally find the minimal digital release date of importance, whether it's amazon/netflix or physical-digital, with this update, will we be able to deduct this data from tmdb?
(I also tried to find a movie with a digital release date info, but I failed)
Resposta de Travis Bell
no 14 de xaneiro do 2016 ás 9:45AM
Hi kaansoral,
Yes, if you call the new /release_dates method you will get whatever we have added back (keyed by country with the type field). As always of course, it all depends on what data has been added to our DB though.
One I know of for sure (without doing a db query) is The Ridiculous 6.