What's new in CLZ Movies?

New in your CLZ Movies Web software today:

In the movie details panel, to the right of the cover image, it now includes an automatically generated eBay search link, that lets you find eBay listings for that particular movie.

This is a new feature we know many users will find useful, others may go “meh” and a small group of users may absolutely hate it 🙂
That is why this feature is optional. You can switch it OFF using the Settings screen.

Automatic eBay search links

These eBay links can be useful for two reasons:

For the movies you own: easily get a feel for a movie’s value, by finding its’ Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
For the movies on your wish list: easily find available copies on eBay, for you to purchase.

Please note: the eBay links include our CLZ Partner ID, which means that we may earn a commission on any purchase you make after clicking the link.

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Small improvement today, suggested by one of our users:

In movie details, tapping the “eye” icon now not only sets Seen It to YES, but it ALSO sets the Viewing Date to today.
This is ON by default. Use the new setting “Tap eye icon to set Viewing Date” to disable this.

Also some fixes for the Android edition:

Rare problems tapping the Add and Sync buttons
Edit screen layout on tablets
Back button in Manage Pick Lists screen
Scan screen suddenly switching to front cam

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Three weeks ago, we did a huge “more compact design” update. Today, we are continuing with another update that improves the design, layout and performance of your movie details panel.

Here’s what has changed:

Flexible layout: the layout now fully adapts to the width of your details panel.
Fields moved: we moved some fields around, to make sure the most important fields are at the top. For example, the Index field has been moved down to the “Personal” block.
New Format icons: format icons are now available for a lot more formats and are now displayed on a white background to make them stand out more.
Youtube trailers: trailer videos now show up as a video thumbnails that links to the video on the Youtube site. No more embedded videos, as these often did not work (embed not allowed) and made the details panel load very slow.
Faster loading: the details panel now loads much faster, as it now delays the loading of the backdrop and because the trailer video is not embedded anymore

A huge update for your CLZ Movies Web software today, which dramatically improves the look and usability:

A new, more compact, design and layout, so that you fit more data on screen
Improved layout of the “movie details” panel, with better support for back covers

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Our web-based software has been around since 2009, first called “Connect”, but renamed in Oct 2024 to simply “CLZ Web”. The Web software is currently the most popular solution for use on your computer, far exceeding the number of users of the legacy “Collector” desktop software.

However, through the years, there is one particular piece of feedback we kept receiving from both new users *and* from users who switched from the desktop software, but phrased in different ways:

“It is all so BIG!” or “I can’t fit a lot of items on my screen”

And they’re right. CLZ Web has been designed to be “big and bold”, as is common with web-based software. Large fonts, big buttons, etc… It looks nice, but the side effect can be that you can fit less collectibles in your on-screen list. Especially when:

Using a low-res laptop screen
Using a tablet device
Using several layers of toolbars in your browser

To resolve this, we were initially planning to introduce an optional “Compact View” or “Compact Skin”.
But when we starting working on that, we liked the results so much that we decided to make it THE new look of CLZ Web for everyone. It looks so much better, more compact, more items on screen. But never too small to read.

Here’s what we did:

New font style to fit the new CLZ styling
Slightly smaller fonts everywhere
In the main screen, we combined toolbars and made them “lower” overall
Lower list rows in List View, by slightly reducing the spacing
Reduced the height and width of all input boxes in the Edit screens
Reduced the height of the screen titles of all popup screen
Reduced the height of the collection tabs at the bottom

This new compact look is going live for CLZ Web within a few weeks. But today, I can share more sneak preview screenshots of the most important screens, with a nice BEFORE (left) and AFTER (right) comparison. Enjoy!

Main screen

Edit screen

Fixed:

A crash in the Pre-fill Settings screen

android pre-fill

Fixed:

Fixed: various crashes related to the recent performance improvements

android

What’s New:

Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login

android sync

This is a recommended security update:

2FA support: if you have 2FA enabled on your CLZ Account, the app will now ask you for the 2FA authenticator code when you log in to the app
Several other changes to better secure your account
New “Change email address” link in the CLZ Account screen

Fixed on Android:

On startup, the collection tab-bar on startup could be blocked by Android navigation bar

2FA android ios key security

Today’s update is all about improvements to the screens for dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”. The main thing being the new option to report unrecognized barcodes for movie box sets (and which movies are in them!).

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New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your movie list in your main screen!

Fixed:

Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for movies without a cover

android

Fixed:

Viewing Dates for episodes would sometimes fill with a wrong date
Tablet: Barcode scanning didn’t work while in landscape orientation
Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
Adding movies by barcode: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover

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Adding movies by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂

In today’s 9.6 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:

Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners

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Today, a big update for your CLZ Movies Web software.

For this update, we have done a complete re-design of the Add Movies screen. The 3 main goals here were to:

Make it easier to find the actual movie and release you own, when adding by Title
Make the search results more compact and nicer looking
Make it all fast and snappy

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We’ve fixed various crashes that happened throughout the app that.. shouldn’t happen anymore with this new version 🙂

We recommend you update your app A.S.A.P. Your app may have updated itself already (check the menu top left, the version number is at the top). If it hasn’t updated itself yet, here’s how to force the update:

On your device, open the Play Store app.
Search “CLZ” and select your CLZ app.
Tap “Update” to update the app.

fixes

Fixed:

When editing a series, personal viewing dates for episodes weren’t loaded correctly

edit movie episodes

Fixed:

Fixed a couple of startup crashes
Small tweaks to the app icon

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Fixed:

Edit screen: ‘Links’ tab was missing for movies and the ‘Covers’ tab was showing twice

fix

Fixed various crashes
Small tweaks to the app icon

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Two weeks ago, on Oct 7, we changed our company name to CLZ and moved our website to clz.com.
On top of that, we also renamed our “Connect” web-based editions to CLZ Web. So:

Movie Connect became CLZ Movies Web
Comic Connect became CLZ Comics Web
Game Connect became CLZ Games Web
Book Connect became CLZ Book Web
Music Connect became CLZ Music Web

Today, we implemented the next step and also moved the CLZ Web editions to their new home at app.clz.com. (previously “connect.collectorz.com” )
At the same time, the CLZ Cloud site moved from cloud.collectorz.com to cloud.clz.com.

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We have changed our company name!
We were previously called “Collectorz.com”, but as everyone called us “CLZ”, we figured, let’s go with the flow and officially rename the company to just “CLZ”!

But that’s not all. This week also brings:

a new company logo and styling
a completely new website at clz.com (previously www.collectorz.com)
new names for our web-based software, previously called Connect, now simply CLZ Comics Web, CLZ Movies Web, CLZ Games Web, etc…
new app icons for all CLZ apps!

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