Basically, allow for some kind of “pop up video”-like feature which would draw from the trivia section of IMDB, overlaying information about the current movie being watched. I sometimes like to read through the trivia while we are watching a movie we’ve already seen, and it’d be a great way to add value to old videos and movies we may have all seen already that is just languishing in our libraries. It would be even better if we were able to create custom timestamps for each piece of trivia, kind of like a subtitles file, which any user could choose to download and display. This idea isn’t perfectly solidified in my head in how it could be implemented, but I just know it would be rad if I could watch old movies with trivia popping up in bubbles during the movie just like those old VH1 Pop-Up Video music videos.
Ah the memories.
I don’t think IMDB would be too happy if we used their trivia questions.
Not looking to argue, but why would they feel any kind of way if there was a service pulling that data? Does IMDB not provide an API to allow this kind of info to be pulled?
So… I just didn’t a little duckduckgo-fu and found an article from howtogeek talking about the thorny relationship with IMDB. So, I guess that’s a hard no with pulling that data from their databases. So sad. I wouldn’t wish for some kind of financial hit on Plex to make something like this happen. Maybe it could all just be user generated supported, allow users to create our own time stamped “Live Extra Info” files kind of like the subtitle files, and allow the Plex user to browse through these and select one to download and use immediately, much like the subtitles…
Maybe I could solve this by just simply using the subtitles, but building some kind of side-project community out of this if there is enough interest. There’s many good sources for trivia, and it’d really be neat to have a new way to enjoy old content. I feel like there’s lots of ways you could inject more value for us Plex pass subscribers without needing to enter into some financial deal with content providers.
They probably do for good money – IMDb isn’t a non-profit organization 
I suppose that’ll be quite similar with those other sources you’re mentioning… the fact that it doesn’t cost (you) money doesn’t mean those pages/services are free… they usually earn good money from ads (which they can’t if you use it outside their page/service.
As for time-stamped extra info – you could create that as your own SRT / subtitles
I think IMDB’s trivia is mostly user generated, not sure how that impacts scraping that data from IMDB though. There is also OpenTDB but it looks like the trivia isn’t organized past simply Film and TV categories.
For something like this to really be widely used I would imagine there needs to be a fully community curated service (similar to something like TVDB or fanart.tv) that then outputs advanced subtitle files (using a format that allows fancy styling, placement, colorizing and unicode emoji would be ideal). Seamlessly importing those subtitles into Plex would then be the final step.
It would be a pretty awesome service/feature in Plex though.
