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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ok. I'm new here and trying to figure out how this works. I'm trying to add my HOUSE M.D. 6-Disc set to my database, but the online database only contains a 3-Disc (double-sided) set. I can add all of Season 1 to my list of Owned, but it shows as a 3-disc set instead of a 6-disc set. How can I update the online system to show the actual number of discs.
I realize that I sound like a 10-year-old in this post, and I'm sorry. I just haven't figured out how all this works yet. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,199 |
| | Posted: | | | | Does it use the same UPC as the 3-disc set? If it does, then you can not upload this as a 6-disc set. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | It does sound curious that they would release a half-season and a full-season on the same barcode numbers.
Could you post the barcode numbers and the locality so we can look into it?
If they have used the same barcode number, I'm guessing the only to get the 6 disc version into the database is to add by disc ID... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 465 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
It does sound curious that they would release a half-season and a full-season on the same barcode numbers. They did not release a half-season and a full-season on the same barcode numbers, they simply replaced double-sided discs with singles sided ones, as the thread starter had indicated in his initial post. | | | | Michael |
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't believe it is a "half-season/full-season" release issue. Both the 3-Disc set and 6-Disc set are full-season. It is that the 3-disc release uses double-sided discs and the 6-disc release uses single sided discs (with art on one side)
The disc ID's are the same (kind of)
6-disc release......................... = 3-disc elease
Disc 1 ID (E5B32BF28258F565) = Disc 1 Side A
Disc 2 ID (7C31328CDF1BFB44) = Disc 1 Side B
Disc 3 ID (DC75D4A08F9B96C0) = Disc 2 Side A
Disc 4 ID (F0FAF73596C6665E) = Disc 2 Side B
Disc 5 ID (0B616C6D0497A43C) = Disc 3 Side A
Disc 6 ID (27234410A8CA2001) = Disc 3 Side B |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Missed that bit about the double-sided discs.
Unfortunately I can't think of any way of getting it into the online database in this situation.
Best you can do is change the 3 disc profile into a 6 disc profile locally.
Until we're allowed to use barcode numbers more than once I can't think of any way round it- sorry!
Edit: I'm assuming that all the disc IDs have already been used to create child profiles for the boxset? | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: July 15, 2007 |  Posts: 159 |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dvdjon: Quote:
i for one like my seasons to heve the same packaging on each season.
unfortunately it doesn't seem that DVD companies share this opinion. I can't believe that MGM released all the Stargate seasons in boxed keepcases except the last two! And I remember reading about all the fuss when Fox decided to put the Simpsons in head-shaped cases instead of the normal digipak after about 5 seasons had been released. I suppose it's always possible that the company started pressing 3-disc versions then realised the costs were too high and changed to 6 discs for subsequent pressings. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Quoting Dvdjon:
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i for one like my seasons to heve the same packaging on each season.
unfortunately it doesn't seem that DVD companies share this opinion. I can't believe that MGM released all the Stargate seasons in boxed keepcases except the last two!
And I remember reading about all the fuss when Fox decided to put the Simpsons in head-shaped cases instead of the normal digipak after about 5 seasons had been released.
I suppose it's always possible that the company started pressing 3-disc versions then realised the costs were too high and changed to 6 discs for subsequent pressings. That's what they did. All 22 episodes are on the three double sided discs. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: July 15, 2007 | | Posts: 159 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | A similar problem stems from the way distributors are bringing out new versions of seasons in THINpak cases when the originals were in digipaks. The first sets I got like this are Dark Angel. The outer case for the newly released series has a different UPC from the original, so both parent profiles can exist in the online database quite comfortably. But when it comes to the child profiles, the online profiles are identified as digipaks when the new releases come in THINpaks - but of course the latter have the same disc-id as the former. I believe recent releases of 24 are also in THINpaks where the originals were in digipaks.
BTW: I'd rather have the THINpak versions, since they come with unique coverart for the discs. Also, I think the discs are more secure in the THINpak than in the digipak format. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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