What happened to Filmogs

Filmogs was a community-built database of physical film releases — DVDs, Blu-rays, VHS, LaserDiscs — a Discogs for movies, catalogued release by release rather than title by title. It went offline with the rest of the -ogs sites, but the database was kept, and it is back here as the home video catalog.

What happened to Filmogs?

It went offline a few years ago, along with Bookogs, Posterogs, Gearogs and Comicogs. What people had contributed was not deleted, and it is the foundation of the catalogs on ctlgs.

Is the Filmogs data gone?

No. The home video catalog holds about 50,000 films and more than 71,000 releases of them — the actual discs and tapes, with their distributors, regions, formats, catalogue numbers and barcodes — plus around 21,000 companies and 336,000 images.

Some of it needs work. Film credit roles came across as free text and have thousands of spellings; company roles on releases have been cleaned up, credits have not. That is the most useful thing to work on if you want to help.

What formats are in the catalog?

Every physical home video format, with the disc or tape itself as the entry rather than the film. As it stands: 48,289 DVDs, 13,070 Blu-rays, 8,379 VHS tapes and 2,982 LaserDiscs, then 608 4K Ultra HD discs, 392 Blu-ray 3D, 299 UMDs, 88 HD DVDs, 86 Betamax tapes and 51 CED videodiscs, plus VCD, DVD-R, Super 8, D-VHS and a handful of other oddities.

There is a page for each of the big four: DVD, Blu-ray and 4K, VHS and LaserDisc.

Is ctlgs a Discogs for movies?

That is the idea. Discogs catalogs a record one pressing at a time; ctlgs catalogs a film one release at a time. A Region 2 DVD with the wrong aspect ratio and a restored 4K disc with two commentaries are different objects, and each gets its own entry, with its own year, distributor and codes.

ctlgs is not connected to Discogs. It is a separate site, built by the people who were on Filmogs.

Why is it called home video and not films?

Because the thing you own is the disc, not the film. The catalog has an entry for the film — one Videodrome — and separate entries for each release of it, which is where format, region, edition and packaging live. You add the release to your collection, so your shelf on ctlgs looks like your shelf at home.

Is my old collection still there?

Not automatically. Your Filmogs collection and wantlist were tied to an account that does not exist here, so nothing is linked to you until someone links it.

Ask on the forum with your old username and both your contribution history and your collection and wantlist get attached to your new account.

Do I need a new account?

Yes. Sign in with a forum account at forum.ctlgs.org — one account covers the forum and the catalogs. Old passwords do not carry over.

What about the other -ogs sites?

Bookogs is back as the books catalog, Posterogs as gigposters, Comicogs as comics, and Gearogs as two catalogs: hi-fi and music gear. Each has its own page here — see the guides.