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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
Personally, of they are all the same genre (say a trilogy) I am happy that the parent profile has a genre of them all; if they are a total mix (please someone tell me why they are being sold together!) then I would leave it blank. I have seen some where genres were totally different in the boxset... A lot of Best of <Actor/Actress Name Here> sets. | | | | Pete |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
if they are a total mix (please someone tell me why they are being sold together!) then I would leave it blank. Usually because they are under the same actor/actress, director or author/writer. I personally keep Genres, CoO, Cast/Crew, Video/Audio Formats, Subtitles and Features completely blank for Box Sets (since all of that info can vary disc to disc), plus the studio that released the box set (the production studios for the films are on the child profiles). The overview is either what's on the cover (if there is an overview) or just the film titles (if there isn't). |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
Personally, of they are all the same genre (say a trilogy) I am happy that the parent profile has a genre of them all; if they are a total mix (please someone tell me why they are being sold together!) then I would leave it blank. John Wayne Colections, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, James Cagney, for example, Voltaire. Why are they being sold together? because they are themed around the actor and not the type of movie...maybe. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
I personally keep Genres, CoO, Cast/Crew, Video/Audio Formats, Subtitles and Features completely blank for Box Sets (since all of that info can vary disc to disc), plus the studio that released the box set (the production studios for the films are on the child profiles). The overview is either what's on the cover (if there is an overview) or just the film titles (if there isn't). ...in addition I also remove the Running Time. like Krik said, I'll have to go through and make sure all this is applied to al my Box Sets (no boredom tonight, I guess... | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Speaking of themes, this forum is like many magazines every few months the same themes, questions keep coming up with same results. And this has been around many times before. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | IMO in the parent profile should be entered every information that is constant over the box set or has a special meaning (e.g. sum of the run time). Therefore I would add the genres to the parent if (and only if) those a valid for the whole box set. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 742 |
| | Posted: | | | | How would you handle sets that contain movies that share some genres?
In those cases, the data of the parent profile is only partially covering the genres and is incomplete in comparison to the child profiles.
Example:
Dawn of the Dead / Shaun of the Dead Box Set (yeez, this profile really seems to haunt me....)
Currently, the parent profile listed "Horror" and "Comedy" as genres. While this is true for Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead is not even close to being a comedy (regardless some funny parts...). The genre "Comedy" has been removed recently.
But now the parent profile does list genres, but only imcomplete.
IMO, to avoid any confusion, genres should stay out of parent profiles.
IMO, the only data that should be in a Box Set parent profile is:
Title,
Edition,
CoO,
Production year,
Rating,
Region,
combined running time,
Release Date,
Case type,
SRP,
distribution studio,
any features exclusive to the box set (figurines, money clips, gadgets, booklets) and of course,
UPC and locality | | | | Lutz |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 555 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: Quote:
How would you handle sets that contain movies that share some genres?
In those cases, the data of the parent profile is only partially covering the genres and is incomplete in comparison to the child profiles.
Example:
Dawn of the Dead / Shaun of the Dead Box Set (yeez, this profile really seems to haunt me....)
Currently, the parent profile listed "Horror" and "Comedy" as genres. While this is true for Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead is not even close to being a comedy (regardless some funny parts...). The genre "Comedy" has been removed recently.
But now the parent profile does list genres, but only imcomplete.
IMO, to avoid any confusion, genres should stay out of parent profiles.
IMO, the only data that should be in a Box Set parent profile is:
Title,
Edition,
CoO,
Production year,
Rating,
Region,
combined running time,
Release Date,
Case type,
SRP,
distribution studio,
any features exclusive to the box set (figurines, money clips, gadgets, booklets) and of course,
UPC and locality I completely agree with this, with the exception of Country of Origin, which (like Genres) may also differ in the movies in the box set, and should therefore, IMO, be excluded from the box set main profile. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agreed.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | That should 'em, until Halloween, that is. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Behemot: Quote:
IMO, the only data that should be in a Box Set parent profile is:
Title,
Edition,
CoO,
Production year,
Rating,
Region,
combined running time,
Release Date,
Case type,
SRP,
distribution studio,
any features exclusive to the box set (figurines, money clips, gadgets, booklets) and of course,
UPC and locality I completely agree with this, with the exception of Country of Origin, which (like Genres) may also differ in the movies in the box set, and should therefore, IMO, be excluded from the box set main profile. Personally I would also leave out the Running Time. The cardboard (or whatever) box has none and the data is redundant to the combined information from the child profiles. Of course, admittedly, it is easier to remove it locally than to add it  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: Quote:
How would you handle sets that contain movies that share some genres? There are 3 logical ways to handle the genre(s) of a parent profiles: You leave the field empty for every parent.You list the superset of genres similar to the sum of the run time. You list the smallest common denominator, meaning that you list those genres which are valid for all children.I would vote for the 3rd option. A similar approach is possible for every other field in the parent profile. | | | | Last edited: by RHo |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would vote for 1 on the basis of consistency across the board. Not sometimes genre and sometimes not.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
I would vote for 1 on the basis of consistency across the board. Not sometimes genre and sometimes not.
Skip All of the 3 ways to handle genres are consistent yet different. EDIT: the 2nd and 3rd ways are even consistent to non box set profiles, while the first way is inconsistent in this aspect. | | | | Last edited: by RHo |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | i don't think they belong... krik  [have i said that before. the OTHERS keep taking control of my fingers and repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and.........................  ] | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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