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Ideas for studios
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorCubbyUps
Registered: March 14, 2007
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It seems to me that 3 studios just aren't enough.

You have theatrical release studios, production studios and then the DVD Distribution company/studio.

With some films having more than 2 major studios producing it and then more co-producing studios there just isn't enough room to include them all. It hinders the ability to cross-reference them to the films they released/ produced.

I don't know how to really solve it, but here is some ideas.

1. Expand the # of available studios from 3 to maybe 5 or so.
OR:
2. Have seperate fields for each type of studio. 1 for Theatrical release studio(s), the other for co-producing studios and the final for the DVD Distributor. Perhaps allow 3 entries for each.


Any other ideas? Or do you think 3 entries is enough for each DVD?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorhydr0x
Registered: April 4, 2007
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I agree, we desperately need a change here.

My proposal

1. Theatrical Release Studio (Entries: 1)
(+ Optional Field: Local Theatrical Release Studio, (Entries: 1))
2. Production Companies (Entries: unlimited)
^ my knowledge of those is to limited to know, but could this be divided somehow into shooting companies and financing ones?
3. DVD Distributor (Entries: 1(!))
^ there's always only ONE actual distributor of a dvd
4. DVD Label (Entries: 1)
^ if one distributor is using multiple sub-labels, unfortunately I don't know an international example but there's at least one such case in Germany, likely more
- Jan
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorDarxon
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Registered: March 14, 2007
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I'd like to have seperate fields for theatrical release, production and distribution studios as well.

Especially the distribution studio is of interest to me, since they are the ones deciding on copy-protection. There have been numerous examples in the past months of DVDs not running on computers or stand-alone players due to rigid copy protection mechanisms. I'd like to know if the DVD has possible issues before putting it into a PC, preferably at someone else's place, ruining the evening.

Currently, on a lot of titles, the distribution studios are not profiled due to the space limitation.

I'd advocate one slot for theatrical release, two for production and one for distribution. If there's more than one (two) possible entries, take the order of the credits, i. e. first come first serve (first shown first entered).
Lutz
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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For me it would be sufficient to have 2 fields.

One for Studios related with Production and Theatrical release (basically what we have now) and a separate one related to the DVD release.

The first one should have 5 data fields and the second one maybe 2 (DVD Label and DVD Distributor).
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative)
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorsynnerman
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting ya_shin:
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For me it would be sufficient to have 2 fields.

One for Studios related with Production and Theatrical release (basically what we have now) and a separate one related to the DVD release.

The first one should have 5 data fields and the second one maybe 2 (DVD Label and DVD Distributor).


Agree, excepted I would expand the DVD release field to 3, since there are occasional "sub-labels" from companies.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKatatonia
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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The program has long been in need for more than three studio fields. And half the time there just isn't any room left for the DVD Studio to be listed.
Corey
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