In regards to a DVDs profile.

What do you like or dislike to contribute? Perhaps because it's very easy or because it's too time consuming or difficult? You can rate them if you wish like I did.

I rated them on a scale of 1-10. 10 being I like to do it, 1 if I don't. NA means Not Applicable because I don't do them.


From the list of DVD Rules.

Title: Couldn't be easier.  10

Edition: Easy to do.  10

Original Title: I don't touch these at all. NA

Production Year: Very easy to find out from many sites.  10

DVD Release Date: Easy to find out.  10

Running Time: Easy.  10

Rating: Easy to find out.  10

SRP: Easy. 10

Studios: Can be difficult to figure out which studios should or shouldn't be listed. 6

Genres: Fairly easy, but many disagree about the genre of something. 7

Case Type: Very easy. 10

Regions: I only use region 1, so it's easy for me. But I can't verify other regions on a DVD. 8

Disc ID: Don't have a DVD-Rom drive, so can't use it. So it's a NA.

Video Format: Easy, but I disagree with the use of Full Frame. I coinsider any film filmed in anything other than 1.33(1.37) as being widescreen and if shown in "Full Frame" as being Pan & Scan. I keep those local. 10

Subtitles: Easy. 10

Audio Formats: My DVD player only shows stereo(even surround) as being 2 channel, so can't verify formats. So a 6.

Disc Features: Easy. 9

Overviews: Unless it's a upcoming release I am likely not to do them. Everything has to be 100% correct. So I don't do them very much. 4

Easter Eggs: Never done one. So a NA

Crew Credits: Too confusing, so I don't do them. If I do, it's more likely just for writing & directing. Sound crew is very confusing for me. 3

Cast Credits. Too time consuming. A tv series can take me days to do.  And some don't like the use of uncredited or credited as without detailed documentation. I simply don't like doing them. 4

Cover Images: I only do pre-release covers. Don't have a scanner, so can't contribute my own covers. 8

Box Sets: Don't do them, so a NA.

Cover scans: Too much of a gray zone in the "substantially better" rule.
Overviews: I'm in Canada (Québec), I'm often faced with the English,French,French & English or English & French dilemma for the overview since there is no rule about that.
Crew: I do it but I don't like it, too many things I personally find useless and missing things I would like to have there.

Cast and crews rate a 10 for me.  To qualify that, I should probably add that I spend most of my time in the classic cinema profiles, where cast and crew were a little more straight forward.  There are plenty of other folks to tackle the current profiles.  At the end of the day, one of my favorite features of Profiler is the ability to cross-reference.  That ability is useless if the cast and crews are FUBARed.

Most things are not too difficult to find out (as you find everything you need on the DVD or in the credits and on the case), only cast & cover scans can take a while to do them right.

I just did my first cast contributions in the last weeks (CSI Season 1-6; german RC2) and while it is not very difficult, it really takes some time to do it. 

I just avoid "Crew" at the moment, as it is (in my eyes) very confusion without proper training.

these contributions...they do not scare me...bah!

[channeling one of the 88,907,371,023,402,738 in the grey matter...]

i'm game for all of it if i have the time and energy. I've done a couple of series, like Midsomer Murders (region 4) and Nero Wolfe MEGASET [!!!!!]. I do a lot of cast editing in Word for such things because i can copy/paste the recurring cast for each episode; same with the crew.

I like to scan things...ooo, almost anything that can be...i have many gigantor scans in my personal database that are locked down really tight.

genres only if someone thinks The Horse's Mouth is fantasy/sciFi (???? do people watch these things) or the recent Friends as drama...so heavy. there are other's i won't touch because it's not really my place to explain that sciFi and fantasy are not interchangeable and ---------- ain't sciFi...[if you can fill in the blank without many clues, you can figure out what cw tv show i'm talking about.] or that horror rather more than implies suspense/thriller.

but hey, we're not here to dictate...

so, i'm off on one of those long posts that i hate to read, so i'll just stop now.

krik

Cast and Crew is what I normally enjoy contributing.

I usually don't mess with scans since I really don't want to spend the time to photoshop the scan to perfection.  If there are no scans or the original scans don't follow the rules then I'll submit new ones.

I usually don't mess with Genres since there is so much personal interputation of what Genere fits the movie.  Again if there are none or they are just wrong I might submit Generes.

Everything else I'll contribute if it is needed to be contributed.

Quoting tas314:

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Quoting ya_shin:

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The only on I can think of that annoys the hell out of me to audit is a DD2 track, trying to determine whether it's Mono or not...

I found a new trick for mono testing. I needed a software oscilloscope for something at work so I bought this one... http://www.zelscope.com/index.html (there may be a free one, but this did what I needed)
While playing with it I realized it would work to show mono/stereo in x/y mode. Just play the disc on my computer and look at the display on the scope.

Mono

Stereo

I have already used this (with "verified with software oscilloscope in x/y mode" in the notes" ).

Genius 

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How is the SRP that easy?  Where would you find the SRP  from?

Most review sites list the SRP when they do the review.  DVDtalk for instance does this.  Of course if they do the review 4 years after the release, that's not very useful, but most places are a little better about that.