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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: 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 Let's see. CoO has already been mentioned as possibly not being consistent across the contents. Production Year is almost guarenteed to be different. Rating can be different and there are many examples to back that up. I've seen the region be different. I've seen the Case Type be different (My Warner Legends Collection has three digipaks and a snapper). | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
Let's see. CoO has already been mentioned as possibly not being consistent across the contents. Production Year is almost guarenteed to be different. Rating can be different and there are many examples to back that up. I've seen the region be different. I've seen the Case Type be different (My Warner Legends Collection has three digipaks and a snapper). Case Type should be what the set came in so it should be included.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | 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: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
Let's see. CoO has already been mentioned as possibly not being consistent across the contents. Production Year is almost guarenteed to be different. Rating can be different and there are many examples to back that up. I've seen the region be different. I've seen the Case Type be different (My Warner Legends Collection has three digipaks and a snapper). Oops, I missed the production year in my earlier post... But I think we already have a rule for Rating and should keep it; so I think it should be in there. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: 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 Agreed, with the exception of CoO and Rating (since it can vary from film to film). |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
Agreed, with the exception of CoO and Rating (since it can vary from film to film). The rating is sometimes (e.g. in the UK and Germany) given for the complete box set and controlled by the law. In those countries the rating has to be printed on the cover and is valid for the complete box. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: Quote:
[...] IMO, the only data that should be in a Box Set parent profile is:
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The overview as printed outside of the box set should also be part of the parent profile. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with that, Rho, when there is one.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
I agree with that, Rho, when there is one.
Skip ...and if there is none, we already have a rule in place for that too; use a simple listing of the titles contained in the set.  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting Darxon:
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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. I would vote for the 3rd option for genres as well, because IMO if we go down the road of removing every feature that does not cover all the childs there would not be much left. But I would like the Video Formats, Theatrical Release Studio and Production Studio to be added to the not include list since these are almost never the same for every child. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
DVD Profiler Nederlands |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | We can't even add Genres reliably for a single profile. This is the field that causes the most confusion and multiple contributions. In fact, we even have a special rule about submitting profiles with genre changes.
So I'm shocked people would even consider compounding that problem by wanting to add genres to boxsets. A box doesn't have a genre. It's nothing more than a container. I say leave them out. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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