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by pyre 4924 days ago 

  > how do you distinguish yourself from tmdb
This is a command-line program for accessing movie information (via someone else's web API), not movie database system. Asking how he/she distinguishes his/herself from TheMovieDB, is... a little odd. It would be like asking XBMC how they distinguish themselves from IMDB.
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allenwlee 4924 days ago
thanks...i barely even understood your response to be honest...i'm not a programmer but trying to learn. love rentrak--i've been talking to someone there for a while now regarding a data feed.
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pyre 4923 days ago 

  > i barely even understood your response to be honest
- IMDB & TMDB are collections of movie data.

- XBMC (aka XBox Media Center) is a piece of software that plays videos and will grab information about those videos from IMDB or TMDB to display to the user (e.g. when you're watching a movie, it will show you a synopsis of the movie, boxart, etc grabbed from the web).

- This post is just about a program that will allow you to say "I want information about a movie called A Christmas Story " and it will fetch that information from the web, and display it. The only real benefit of this, is being able to do the query/view the response from a text terminal, instead of just going to the website.

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