Features Requiring Points
Introduction
You can download our Windows product suite for free, it only requires a free user account that you must create when first using the programs. The application suite holds a set of functionalities that are free to use, while some features in the suite require a certain amount of points on your user account - these points can be purchased, or you can contribute data to our service, and receive the points. Read more about contribution and purchase points.
The feature tables below gives you an overview of the features that requires points for My Movies for Windows, weather you use the Collection Management, Windows Media Center or Server Solution functionalities. There will at no time be a purchased point or contribution point requirement for the basic usage of My Movies, and no feature will at any time require more than 2,500 points, except that some features may be reserved for professionals as part of our installer program. Purchase points and contribution points are linked to your e-mail address, and only contribution points can be removed if you do not follow the contribution guide when contributing titles, and ignore our moderators warnings.
Points are guaranteed to unlock features on current major version of the program, including all minor version updates. While we cannot guarantee that purchased or contributed points will cover future major versions, it is our intention that they do, and they have always done in the past. Users who purchased or contributed for points several years ago with previous version of My Movies still today have full access to all features requiring the points they have, including the features in My Movies 5.
The points on your account covers all features that requires the amount of points you have, or less. The features unlock at 500 points, 1250 points and 2500 points, and some features are exclusive for professionals through our installer program.
If you have 0 points on your account you have access to all the basic functionalities of the program.
If you have 500 points on your account all features that require 500 points are unlock. 
If you have 1250 points on your account all features that require 1250 points or less are unlocked.
If you have 2500 points on your account all the features that require 2500 points or less are unlocked.
This means that if you have 1250 points, you gain access to all features with this requirement, or below - you do not need 3,000 points for two features that requires 1250 points and one that requires 500, to cover all of these you would only need 1250 points. If you have 2,500 points on your account, you can be sure to have access to all features, except features reserved for professionals, on all current major versions of the product, in the products lifetime.
If you would like to evaluate one or more of these features, you can request a 21 day trial of 2,500 points - notice though, that you can only request this feature once per user account. Please see this page for details.
Server Solution Features
The feature table below lets you compare the functionalities in Server Solution part of the application suite, based on how many points you have on your user account. Below the table you can read more about the functionalities.
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| Copy DVD, Blu-ray or HD-DVD's directly to your server's shares, or to external NAS devices, in either ISO or file structure format* | |
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| Music Disc Copier lets you automatically rip music discs to your server's shares, or external NAS devices, in WAV, MP3, WMA or WMA Lossless format | |
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| Attach up to five drives to your machine, and copy discs, audio or video from all of these drives at the same time | | |||
| The video converter function will take your copied DVD or Blu-ray titles and convert them to MP4 format | |
My Movies Disc Copier 
The fully automated movie disc copier* part of the Server Solution features, allows you to copy DVD, Blu-ray or HD DVD's directly to your server's shares, or external NAS devices, in either ISO or file structure format.
My Music Disc Copier
The fully automated music disc copier of the Server Solution features lets you automatically rip music discs to your server's shares, or external NAS devices, in WAV, MP3, WMA or WMA Lossless format.
Multi-Disc Copying 
Attach up to five drives to your server, and copy discs, audio or video from all of these drives at the same time. This helps you speed up importing titles into your collection if you have a lot of titles to process.
Video Converter
The video converter function, will take your copied DVD or Blu-ray titles and convert them to MP4 format for use on iPad, iPhone, Android, AppleTV, DNLA servers or other devices supporting the H.264 playback format.
Windows Media Center Features
The feature table below lets you compare the functionalities in the Windows Media Center part of the application suite, based on how many points you have on your user account. Below the table you can read more about the functionalities.
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| View collection with the covers and details view. | |
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| Display backdrops (fanart) in 720P (1280x720) resolution. | |
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| Five filters available | |
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| Display backdrops (fanart) in 1080P (1920x1080) resolution. | |
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| View collection with the covers centered view. | |
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| View collection with the cover row and details view. | |
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| Change the amount of cover rows allowing you to show larger or smaller covers. | |
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| Customize the entries in the root menu, or create one menu instead of the default two. | |
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| Play VIDEO_TS or DVD ISO files on Xbox 360 or Linksys Media Center extenders with the internal transcoder. | |
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| Integrate and play your media in external players such as VLC, Media Player Classic or others. | |
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| Add a custom menu button in the navigation menu to quickly access a created filter, category or similar. | |
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| Change overlay icon style | |
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| Eight filters available | |
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| Add two custom menu buttons in the navigation menu to quickly access a created filter or similar. | | |||
| Play movies directly for DVD VIDEO_TS format, allowing you to skip intros, trailers and menu's. | | |||
| Play all episodes in a TV Series or Season as a queue for episodes in individual media files. | | |||
| Play a random episode from a TV Series or Season. | | |||
| Display similar titles of movies in your collection. | | |||
| Automatic refresh rate | | |||
| Unlimited filters | |
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Covers and details view 
The "Covers and details" view allows you to see detailed information on your titles, such as parental level, synopsis, cast and more directly when you browse the titles, without the need to open the movie details page.
Online Backdrops 720P
When browsing your collection, and viewing movie details, My Movies displays backdrops, also known as fan-art automatically downloaded for your movies from our online service. This option allows you to get backdrops included within the program in 720P resolution.
Copy Disc
The copy disc feature allows you to copy DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray titles* to your computer or network storage directly within Windows Media Center to either an image file or a folder structure. During the copy process your disc will automatically be identified through our online service, and the disc will be added to your collection with high quality meta-data.
Covers centered view
The "Covers centered view" centeres the currently selected movie and moves all other titles while you browse.
The view have been created for easy browsing for users with limited technical skills, such as kids.
Custom Menu Button 1
By creating a custom menu button, you can easily access any listing that you prefer and holds as a favorite. This could be either a filter you have configured, a personal category containing a select set of titles, a specific genre, sort option or similar.
Cover row and details view
The "Cover row and details view" gives a row of titles in the bottom of the screen, and details about the selected title above. This view also includes the option of displaying covers in a cover-flow a-like view.
Changing Cover Rows
By default, your collection will be displayed with three rows of covers on the screen, but by changing the amount of covers, you can get either larger covers with only two rows, or small covers displaying more covers on screen by configuring 4, 5 or 6 rows.
Online Backdrops 1080P
Increasing the quality of downloaded and displayed backdrops to 1080P gives you even better quality of the backdrops displayed on screen.
Internal Transcoder
Windows Media Center extenders, such as the Xbox 360 and Linksys DMA-2100 and 2200 are great and cheap add-ons to extend your Windows Media Center to other rooms, but unfortunately the media playback functionalities of the extenders are limited, meaning that they do not support various media types, such as online stored DVD's in image files or VIDEO_TS file structures. The transcoder built-in to My Movies allows you to on-the-fly convert the movie you would like to playback to a format that the extender can play. This allows you to not have to store multiple media types to view your movies on extenders.
External Players
I you prefer different player than the the built-in media player in Windows Media Center, you can use external players instead. With the external player feature, you can configure which movie types should be played with a select number of external players, where more players can be configured by the expert user.
Customize Start Menu
My Movies by default is split into two start menu strips in Windows Media Center; one for movies and another for tv series. With the option to customize the start menu, you can select between one or two strips, and you can customize which entry points each strip has.
Change overlay icon style
Change the style and settings for the overlay icons which displays select information about the titles in the main view. Change the size and whether they should be transparent on not. Choose which icons should be displayed showing icons for whether the title is online or offline, a series or box set, in a DVD changer, is new, the HD dimension, is a 3D Blu-Ray, is lent out, is watched and count of TV episodes.
Custom Menu Button 2
Creating a second custom menu button allows you to easily access two personal favorite sections or views.
Play Movie
Default, when playing a DVD, you are taken directly to the menu, and have to go through trailers for other titles, selection of audio, subtitles and similar. With the Play movie function, you can skip this step, and configure My Movies to always directly play the actual movie, skipping all other things. Especially for small children this option makes it much easier.
Play all episodes
By pressing "Play" on your remote, or Ctrl+P on a keyboard while placed on a TV Series or Season, you can select to play all episodes, or all unwatched episodes. Notice! This is only supported for TV Series in individual files, and is not supported for TV Series on DVD.
Play random episode
By pressing "Play" on your remote, or Ctrl+P on a keyboard while placed on a TV Series or Season, you can select to play a random episode, or a random unwatched episode. Notice! This is only supported for TV Series in individual files, and is not supported for TV Series on DVD.
Similar Titles
When you have selected a particular title in your collection, and would like to find something similar, My Movies can use it's high-quality meta-data to inspire you by giving you a selection of titles in your collection that are similar to the one you are currently viewing. If you are unsure what to watch, pick something you know you would like, and see what other titles you might also like.
Automatic refresh rate
The automatic refresh rate feature detects the refresh rate of the movie you wish to play, and changes the setting to suit the movie. Thereby you do not have to manually check and change the refresh rate for each movie.
Filters 
By creating a filter, you can have different sub-set views of all your titles - this could be a listing all of your childrens movies, the wife's favorite genres, classics from within a specific time period, or short movies for the days when you aren't up to a two and a half hour long movie - filters gives you all the options, what you decide to filter is up to you.
When having configured multiple zones, and having My Movies to be accessible in the childrens rooms, it's a good idea to create a filter and configure this as default view, perhaps listing only Animation and Family movies, the DVD's only, if their Windows Media Centers aren't able to play your nice HD-DVD and Blu-ray titles, and perhaps only the online stored titles, so they do not need to get a DVD down from the shelf with the risk of scratching it.
For the sake of your children, be sure to configure My Movies parental restrictions, to keep them blocked from any titles not suitable for their age! The Parental Control feature does not require any points - My Movies is a program for families.
You can in the Collection Management application create an unlimited amount of filters, however without any Contribution or Purchased points only three will be available in Windows Media Center, with 500 points, five is available and with 1,250 points eight is available. When you have 2,500 points, an unlimited amount of filters is available.
Collection Management Features
The feature table below lets you compare the functionalities in the Collection Management part of the application suite, based on how many points you have on your user account. Below the table you can read more about the functionalities.
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| Store backdrops (fanart) in 720P (1280x720) resolution as part of meta-data in folders. | |
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| Store backdrops (fanart) in 1080P (1920x1080) resolution as part of meta-data in folders. | |
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| Upload personal titles such as wedding or vacation videos to the online service. | |
Copy Disc
The copy disc feature allows you to copy DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray titles* to your computer or network storage directly within the Collection Management program to either an image file or a folder structure. During the copy process your disc will automatically be identified through our online service, and the disc will be added to your collection with high quality meta-data.
Do only create backups of discs you owe for your own personal use - piracy is stealing!
Upload of personal titles
Users with personal titles such as wedding or vacation videos, or just custom titles that does not allow contribution to the My Movies online service can upload these as personal titles to the service.
Upload of personal titles does not require that the title follows the contribution guide, and other users will not be able to see titles uploaded as personal titles. Only the uploading user can have the title in their collection, or, if removed see the title in a search result.
Uploading a title as a personal title allows it to be included in online collections, and be part of the iPhone, iPad and Android applications.
Notice! Personal titles is intended to be used for titles of personal nature, and not to change retail titles with personal preferences. You may upload maximum 100 titles as personal titles.
