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Tricky box/not-box conumdrum: Nip/Tuck: Complete Fourth Season: Limited Edition
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAbsimiliard
Registered: August 16, 2007
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I've got an odd situation here. I bought the Nip/Tuck: complete Fourth Season (NTS4) here in Canada packed exclusively by Futureshop (think Best Buy) with an additional bonus disc.
The Limited Edition packaging is a slip case over the normal NTS4 box with a different UPC code than the NTS4 box and the extra disc is in an evelope with no barcode.
I was going to contribute this as a single entry with the bonus disc listed under the discs, BUT the 2 barcodes is giving me pause. The NTS4 box is its own product, and I don't want to change its contents. But the contibution rules state that bonus materials for a single feature (or TV season in this case) should not have a seperate entry but should be added to the feature. So, at the risk of being redundant, I don't want to add the bonus disc to the feature because the feature (NTS4) is a seperate barcode and is a quite happy entry by itself.
I thought maybe I should then make the Limited edition a box set and add the NTS4 and bonus disc as seperate entries, but this goes against the "If a Box Set contains discs of Bonus Material for individual films..." rule.
What do you guys figure I should do.

To add a little twist to the conudrum (this is a beef I have with DVD Profiler in general) The NTS4 is identical in both the US and Canada. I hate the double locality entries that get made because one always gets updated without the other. That being out of my hands my second question is this: What should be done when a Canadian box set includes a DVD that is identical between localities? This item has no price (included in box set price) and therefore any locality differences are moot. Should the item be considered American, or (God I hope not) should an additional item be created with the correct locality and a price of zero?

2nd PS: There is currently an entry for NTS4: Target Exclusive: Special Edition could this be the same item?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTracer
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 951
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You profile it as it is sold in the stores, the special UPC is for the entire package not just a limited slip case and/or bonus disc.  So if you wanted to profile the limited cover and bonus disc you will need to ignore the other UPC and profile everything all discs including the limited disc.

It is not uncommon for exclusive releases of bonus discs or slip covers to use the regular DVD packaging by only covering up the exsiting UPC in some manner.

To make it easier to profile you could download the existing profile that does not include the limited cover and bonus disc.  Change the cover scans to the limited cover and add to the profile the additional bonus disc.  Then just use the program's change UPC feature to the UPC on the limited cover.  Submit the new profile to the DB for approval.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantTheKing75
Registered: March 14, 2007
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Bonus Discs should have their own profiles, when they are separate entities from the release they come with. In this case, I'd make a profile with the UPC from the slipcover as a box set, with child profiles for the standard UPC release and a child profile for the bonus disc via DiscID.

And yes, Target had this release in the states. So you could always see how that one was done, change its locality to Canada and submit it, which would be what you need.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAbsimiliard
Registered: August 16, 2007
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Thanks guys! Am I hearing two responses here, though? Should this be a single submission (one UPC) or a box set with the normal DVD and the bonus as children (the bonus added by disc ID)?

I've currently got it in my system as a box set but, before submission, I'd like to know what you guys think.

Please if anyone else would like to vote for what they think please do.
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I would just treat this as you would any other TV season.  Use the UPC that is shown on the cover as it was purchased.  Then all discs IDs (Children) to the main profile.  No sense in trying to over complicate the profile becuase it has an extra disc and unique slip case.
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