I’m watching a DVD with my girlfriend. An actor enters the scene and my brain wakes up. I know this guy from another movie but for the love of god I can’t remember which one. For the next couple of minutes I’m wreckhing my brain ignoring the plot of the movie. Eventually I give in, pause the movie, dodge the evil eye of my girlfriend, boot my computer and go to IMDB. The “AHA” moment is satasfying but now I have to rewind the movie.

The Solution:

An integration of a DVD with IMDB. As soon as this mystery actor or actress appears you can retrieve their IMDB details with the push of a button. You don’t have to pause the movie because you get a simple overview in a small seperate screen which you can easily turn off. Of course you want your DVD player to be connected to the tubes of the interweb delivering real-time data, but for now I think settling for (static) data to be retrieved from the DVD a more realistic option.

How it could work:

Below I have made some screens detailing the way it could work.
You see an actor you want to know more about and you hit the IMDB button:

And when you click on Robert Downey Jr.: