Feature Request: Show multiple type of "Available" dates (digital and disc)

[simonk83]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I do often look at the Available date for a movie, and it's not correct (so much so that I don't tend to look at it anymore, I check elsewhere). I'm not sure where the dates are pulled from, and if they're ever refreshed periodically like the poster or title would be?

Describe the solution you'd like
I think part of the issue is that sometimes the date displayed can be the digital release, but there's not really an indication of that. I'd like to know both digital and disc release, as the former indicates when a decent copy will appear, but the latter indicates when the better qualities will start to appear. I'd like the Available tag to perhaps be clickable, with a popup then opening showing both release dates (digital and disc)?

Describe alternatives you've considered
Perhaps just append the Available tag with the type if the above isn't possible. Eg Available (Digital): 28 February or Available (Disc): 12 March

[fryfrog]

Do you know of a good place to get physical and digital release dates? I'm not sure what it uses currently, but w/o a source... there isn't a whole lot to do.

[simonk83]

Well the dates at the moment seem to be digital generally, so I'm assuming that part is covered (I had a poke through the code but couldn't really find a source). For physical I always check blu-ray.com however I'm not sure if they have an API or anything like that, I'll have a look.

[simonk83]

Ok, bluray.com don't offer an API, however I just noticed that this info is available on TMDB:

Eg, Aquaman:

And here's the call: https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/movies/get-movie-release-dates

eg: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/297802/release_dates?api_key=<<api_key>>

Looks like Type 4 = Digital and Type 5 = Physical

It would be nice if we had accurate release date info, and we could display it all in radarr.. This is definitely something I would love.

I actually use/maintain a fork/branch of radarr that augments release date info from omdbapi (which I believe is IMDB).

http://www.omdbapi.com/

Unfortunately even augmenting radarrs current release date info with the info from OMDBAPI is still insufficient and not that accurate.

Please check out my fork/branch here: https://github.com/geogolem/Radarr/tree/augmentMovieInfo

If anybody has any suggestions on how to further or better augment radarr's release date info with a more complete and accurate data source, please let me know. If we had more accurate and complete release date info I might be more motivated to look into adding more stuff to the UI concerning release dates. I originally didnt bother augmenting the UI at all, because the info was incomplete and I thought it better to wait until the new Radarr UI was released and do it there.

Right now, there is alot of massaging of data to get what Radarr currently has as themoviedb is largely incomplete and not always accurate.

Ok, bluray.com don't offer an API, however I just noticed that this info is available on TMDB:

Eg, Aquaman:

And here's the call: https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/movies/get-movie-release-dates

eg: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/297802/release_dates?api_key=<<api_key>>

Looks like Type 4 = Digital and Type 5 = Physical

Themoviedb does have info like that accessible via the API; however, alot of info is missing or inaccurate.

this is currently the data that radarr uses to determine cinema release date and physical release date.

The code is in SkyHookProxy, if you take a look at just my branch changes for augment movie Info you will see how I augment the existing data from themoviedb with info from omdbapi.

anyway, its been a while since I looked into this, so I don't want to say more -- ill refresh my memory and maybe write back later. but if someone has a better release date info source it would be greatly appreciated.. OR --> maybe the radarr community could somehow work towards, making themoviedb more complete and accurate? or something like that.

since so many release dates are missing, radarr assumes any moive that had a theatrical release more than 3 months ago, is now "released" instead of "In Cinemas"... we had to do that, otherwise too many movies remain in "In Cinemas"

this mioght be a duplicate of: #3151 (just putting here for reference) in case anybody wanted to merge these 2 issues.

[fryfrog]

Can't really merge, just mention and close one or the other. :(

[MagiX13]

Themoviedb does have info like that accessible via the API; however, alot of info is missing or inaccurate.

Regarding the inaccuracies: Themoviedb API provides several different flags regarding the release date. Some releases might premier (type 1) at special events, such as film festivals, or be available to a limited audience (type 2) before the regular release before being released to the general public (type 3).
Currently, the first (?) available date is used which makes the calendar feature a bit unreliable if you want to watch it in cinema.
Optionally, one could use the iso_3166_1 country code to make it more precise depending on the region.

[galli-leo]

What I have planned is using our upcoming API v3, which will hopefully include all release dates and use return release dates from TMDB and IMDB, as well as allow the ability for adding custom ones (some time in the future).

[henryschade]

I too would like to see a "Digital" and "Physical" release date added to Radarr (mostly for the calendar, but in the movie listing would be handy too).

[Qstick]

Done, v3