I’ve been a user of My Movies 2 for Windows Media Center for around 3 years.  On my Windows Vista Media Centers it was the best way to manage and watch my movie collection, and offered several improvements over Vista’s DVD library.  My Movies allows you to add movies automatically to your library using user-generated content (movie reviews, artwork, ratings, actor details etc).

My Movies 2 works perfectly with Windows 7 Media Center, but it was starting to look a bit dated and thankfully the software creators have been working on My Movies 3 that will be launched to coincide with Windows 7 launch on October 22nd.  Pre-release versions of My Movies 3 has been available to users who have 2,500 points like myself; points are accumulated by adding movie data to the database or by contributing.

My Movies 3 is a vast improvement over My Movies and an essential addition for anyone who uses Windows 7 Media Center.

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Key Features:

• New: Improved faster and more stable interface
• New: Single installation file for x86 and x64 machines including SQL Server
• New: Easier integration into Windows 7 Media Center.  Option (to be added) to replace the Windows 7 Movie Library
• New: Improved integration with external HD players
• Index all your movies automatically: My Movies indexes all your movies, and automatically downloads movie data such as descriptions, ratings, actors and covers and much more.
• Browse, read about and watch your movies: After indexing your movies, you can browse your movies, view covers, read descriptions, see which actors star in a movie and much more.
• Share collection on multiple clients: You can setup a main movie collection, and have multiple client browse it, and watch movies from it from additional Media Centers or Media Center extenders.
• Full parental controls: With two levels of MPAA based parental controls you have full control, and can require a pin # to watch a movie, or even restrict browsing to a certain MPAA level.
• Create and save movie filters: You can create and save multiple filters to recall movies by parental rating, genre, star rating, and whether or not you have watched the movie.
• Copy DVD’s to disk with just your remote: With just the use of your remote, you can backup a DVD to your harddrive and index the movie in the database at the same time, for easy retrieval later on.

You can download the current version of My Movies here.