I used an OpenOffice.org Calc sheet. In February 2008 my brother told and showed me DVD Profiler. As I already had about 300 DVDs at that time I bought it right away... and a lot of dvds/hd dvds/blue-rays since then 

I used MS Access, but then gladly I found DvD Profiler

I used MS Excel for the first couple of years (well, year and a half). You can still find a copy here which was last updated 2001-07-03. It could also track CD and VHS! 

By this time I think I tried an early free version of DVD Profiler but didn't much like it (or maybe I didn't want to pay for it). Instead I started to use the online tracker offered by www.dvdforum.nu. Unfortunately their central database was dumped when version 3 of the site was launched so that was years of effort wasted and I didn't feel like starting over again. That's when I turned to Profiler for the second time and so it remains. 

My oldest registration mail btw is from 2003-05-22 but I think it was another year before I was completely turned over.

Nothing at all. I bought DVD profiler when I had 89 titles, so there wasn't much need for a database to keep track of them.

KM

Before I discovered some online solutions I dabbled with keeping an excel spreadsheet, but I didn't keep up with it too much and I didn't really have that many DVDs at that time.

Around the time I thought I needed to keep track of things I found DVDAF but it was lacking a lot. Around the same time I found Guzzlefish and started to use it as it also handled CDs, records, tapes and other media. But then that died. I think sometime just before it went or shortly after I discovered DVDSpot and loved it, used it the most frequently of the things I had found and tried, it was then bought by CNET and about a year or two later they closed it down (Sept/Oct 2008). In my search to find something similar to DVDSpot I recalled I had seen DVDProfiler, but didn't really like the having to buy a membership to open up the better features and to handle a collection of more than 50 DVDs. But after looking a little closer at Profiler I gave in and bought the life-time use membership thing.

As backups I have DVDAF, DVDCrate (which is the closest thing I've found to DVDSpot) but has the problems that DVDAF and DVDSpot had in its early days of slow to update. I also have an Excel spreadsheet that I use as the barebones list.

Another program called 'Pumpkin MovieBrain' and the site 'DVD Collector', but once DVDP came out I switched.

I used Word before and then OFDB/DVDB
http://www.meine-filmsammlung.de/?19358 and http://moviebase.dvdb.de/nimrod85

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This looks great! Keeping track of audio commentaries and featurettes is one of my biggest "feature requests" for Profiler. 
Any thoughts about releasing it as a plug-in or html-window?

No, it will remain a private solution. I only posted it as an example of what can be done. Not for the first time btw, and still in the hope that some day it will inspire Ken Cole to do something about it. If you are interested in a few more details, I discussed it here a while ago.

Thank you very much. I hope Ken will consider using at least some of these infos for expanding the possibilities of the Profiler database.