Welcome to the Invelos forums. Please read the forum rules before posting.

Read access to our public forums is open to everyone. To post messages, a free registration is required.

If you have an Invelos account, sign in to post.

    Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Contribution Discussion Page: 1  Previous   Next
Boxed Set Images: Which of these is preferred?
Author Message
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantBlair
Resistance is Futile!
Registered: October 30, 2008
United States Posts: 1,249
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
For a boxed set where all of the movies are together in a single case and you have to register each individual movie through its disc ID (ie: the Back to the Future trilogy boxed set), is it preferred to use the same front and back covers of the boxed set for the individual disc ID submissions as well or if the same movies had been previously released, should/can those covers be used?

I assume that the former would be the preferred choice (even though it lacks the "individuality" for each title), but I am asking this because I have seen it both ways in the database.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributortweeter
I aim to misbehave
Registered: June 12, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
United States Posts: 2,665
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Per the Rules the Box Set image should be used unless the movies are individually packaged in the box.

Quote:
Create each of these individual profiles in line with the standard Contribution Rules with one exception - Cover Images. If a film is individually packaged, use the cover images from that packaging.

I occasionally use alternate images locally, but only locally.
Bad movie?  You're soaking in it!
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: Highest Rating
United States Posts: 17,330
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
As tweeter said... no matter what is preferred for the online database it has to be the same images as the parent profile in such cases.
Pete
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
Don't be discommodious
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 21,610
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
As Pete noted and we don't acceptcustom covers for the Online, as tweeter noted, That would be strictly a local decision on your part.

Skip
ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here

Billy Video
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorTheMadMartian
Alien with an attitude
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: Highest Rating
United States Posts: 13,201
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
The only exception to that rule is if the disc IDs are the same as the original individual releases.

And just an FYI, BTTF has never been released as individual DVDs...at least in R1 land.
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantWhite Pongo, Jr.
No, I iz no Cheshire Cat!
Registered: August 22, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Posts: 1,807
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Unicus69:
Quote:
The only exception to that rule is if the disc IDs are the same as the original individual releases.


Didn't know about that. 
-- Enry
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantBlair
Resistance is Futile!
Registered: October 30, 2008
United States Posts: 1,249
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Unicus69:
Quote:
And just an FYI, BTTF has never been released as individual DVDs...at least in R1 land.

I know. It was just the first set of this nature that came to mind.

Thanks for the clarification. It looks like I have a couple of contributions to make.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
United Kingdom Posts: 5,459
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting EnryWiki:
Quote:
Quoting Unicus69:
Quote:
The only exception to that rule is if the disc IDs are the same as the original individual releases.


Didn't know about that. 

That's news to me too. I hope what Unicus means is that if the disc ID has already been used to create an individual release profile, then we can't update it with boxset scans.
But if the disc ID has not been used to create a profile for a previous release I see no reason not to use it for a child profile for the boxset and use the corresponding scans.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorTheMadMartian
Alien with an attitude
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: Highest Rating
United States Posts: 13,201
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting northbloke:
Quote:
Quoting EnryWiki:
Quote:
Quoting Unicus69:
Quote:
The only exception to that rule is if the disc IDs are the same as the original individual releases.


Didn't know about that. 

That's news to me too. I hope what Unicus means is that if the disc ID has already been used to create an individual release profile, then we can't update it with boxset scans.


Yes, that is what I meant.  Sorry if I wasn't as clear as I meant to be.
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTracer
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 951
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Unicus69:
Quote:
The only exception to that rule is if the disc IDs are the same as the original individual releases.

And just an FYI, BTTF has never been released as individual DVDs...at least in R1 land.


Not exactly correct, the original release should have been contributed with UPC unless it didn't have one.

Quote:
When contributing a title by UPC, make sure the UPC is entered in this format. Do not contribute titles with "made up" or otherwise inaccurate UPCs. If a title does not have a UPC, then add the title by Disc ID, using your DVD-ROM drive.


If the a disc from the box set doesn't have an individual UPC for that disc but, is using the disc ID from a previous release that had a UPC the box set disc ID should be the one we are using.  For some reason we have users contributing new releases that have UPCs by disc ID instead of UPC which causes issues with future releases such as box sets.
Are you local?
This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways.
    Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Contribution Discussion Page: 1  Previous   Next