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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know there is a rule for not contributing re-release cover art and I see why but I dont understan why we can't have cover art for slip covers and when the slip is discontinued have a non slip cover of the same.
Maybe this is something Im not aware of but Ive become a fanatic about slip covers, to the point where Ill purchase a slip 3rd party which can be expensive. But with this economy Ive started buying less at release and waiting until there cheaper, the problem here is limited slips.
Now heres the thing I could care less as much about the slip as the picture in my database, and without a good scanner my only option is the cover art in the database. So why is it we cant have a second cover art and a choice for slip cover editions of movies? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mike: Quote:
So why is it we cant have a second cover art and a choice for slip cover editions of movies? Because the database/program can't handle multiple cover scans for a single release. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | is this something Ken is working on? I dont know about some but this would be a high priority on my list.
Maybe its just me, anyone else feel this way? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mike: Quote:
is this something Ken is working on? It isn't something he has mentioned. Quote:
I dont know about some but this would be a high priority on my list.
Maybe its just me, anyone else feel this way? Many people do...check out the feature request forum. It is second or third on the collected list of requests. | | | 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 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mike
Hopefully we will one day be able to deal with multiple covers online. Without it, to me, it cripples the program as a collection tool, the cover being one of the most obvious ways of identifying what a user might own, but there are others, so besides covers we will need to be handle some multiples datasets, let's say as an example aspect ratio or perhaps audio files and so forth and these would all have to point to a specific variation for proper id. It gets pretty complex and ugly in a hurry.
I would like to think that if we used a combination of 4 data keys that we could identify any title and variation. But I also am certain that Hollywood would destroy that idea in about oh....10 seconds. Lol. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mike: Quote:
is this something Ken is working on? I highly doubt it, storage space isn't free and we pay nothing after our purchase so the money spending must be cut somewhere. Quote:
Maybe its just me, anyone else feel this way? Probably, but in my case I have my own website and a scanner so the online DVDP presentation isn't a priority at all. |
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| Registered: May 14, 2007 | | Posts: 455 |
| | Posted: | | | | Slip covers are nothing more than packaging and should not be allowed in the database, IMO. That is why I scan my own and lock all my covers.
I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 767 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting leo1963: Quote:
I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away.  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting leo1963: Quote:
Slip covers are nothing more than packaging and should not be allowed in the database, IMO. That is why I scan my own and lock all my covers.
I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away. I hope that you really don't throw them out. At least recycle them. Believe it or not, some people actually would pay for those slips too. Especially if they're rare or store exclusives. | | | | Last edited: by CubbyUps |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CubbyUps: Quote:
Quoting leo1963:
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Slip covers are nothing more than packaging and should not be allowed in the database, IMO. That is why I scan my own and lock all my covers.
I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away.
I hope that you really don't throw them out. At least recycle them.
Believe it or not, some people actually would pay for those slips too. Especially if they're rare or store exclusives. Wow, that is one of the craziest things I ever heard any of us say. Well I guess we can say at least one of us is not what I would call a collector. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting marcelb7: Quote:
Quoting leo1963:
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I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away.
Get 'em, Donald. Rofl | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | You might want to sell them. I was amazed to see Slip Covers being auctioned on ebay and people actually bidding on them! |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting leo1963: Quote:
I know there are several that would disagree with me but I have NEVER like slip covers and I throw them all away. My new favorite image...  |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
You might want to sell them. I was amazed to see Slip Covers being auctioned on ebay and people actually bidding on them! Yep it is. I don't normally buy them but there is one I'm looking for... Death Race 2. I got the first and third entries with slip covers but the other, which I got cheap, without. Also, there are rare ones that are worth money. Not sure about now, but at one time the Casino Royale Blu-ray slip cover is apparently rare. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting The Movieman: Quote:
Quoting Kathy:
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You might want to sell them. I was amazed to see Slip Covers being auctioned on ebay and people actually bidding on them!
Yep it is. I don't normally buy them but there is one I'm looking for... Death Race 2. I got the first and third entries with slip covers but the other, which I got cheap, without.
Also, there are rare ones that are worth money. Not sure about now, but at one time the Casino Royale Blu-ray slip cover is apparently rare. Casino Royale is pretty rare. I'm also pretty sure Trick 'r Treat is very rare (even though I used to see lots of them) and Zombie 2-disc. I wish I didn't have a collector mentality, I could sell some of mine but I like the look of them too much to let go.  There's a whole thread on blu-ray com for selling or trading slips, it's the new fad! I can't believe I recently traded a BD for a slip, but it was BD I won and didn't much like the movie, and it was the Zombie 2-disc slip which I suddenly needed. |
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| Registered: July 16, 2010 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 527 |
| | Posted: | | | | Can someone tell me what the point of a slip cover is? It’s not even as if most have anything different on them compared to their corresponding sleeve. All they are is a bit of marketing and a waste of resources. It's like we're being charged extra to buy the same thing twice. Do they actually have any practical value? They just seem to become tatty and are a pain to scan too.  | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
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