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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | There is a new DVD company in Hong Kong that specializes in releasing titles from Japan and Korea. The company is called CN Entertainment Ltd. It is definitely a legitimate company. You can purchase their DVDs at any major Hong Kong DVD site and are the rights holder for those films in Hong Kong. The problem is their UPC isn't recognized as legitmate by DVD Profiler for uploading. Here are the examples I have in my collection:
Dororo: 9200708000105
200 Pound Beauty: 9200707000103
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth: 9200708000105
King and the Clown: 9200702000030 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | The UPC/EAN checker claims that the check digit is wrong for all of these. For A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth: 9200708000105 the last digit should be a 9. My guess is that you will need to add by disk-id.  pdf | | | Paul Francis
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pdf256: Quote:
For A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth: 9200708000105 the last digit should be a 9.
pdf Oops, I wrote the wrong number for "A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth", it's 9200706000094. The one in the previous post was the "Dororo" one. Maybe the last digit needs to be trimmed off from the company's releases? Unlike most UPC codes, the numbers are listed in a single block, not broken like the ususual 1 23456 78901 2. That makes it difficult to see if the number is one that doesn't need to be entered. ETA: Trimming the last digit won't work. I tested it with "200 Pound Beauty", but it claims it would still be invalid. | | | | Last edited: by synnerman |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
Quoting pdf256:
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For A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth: 9200708000105 the last digit should be a 9.
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Oops, I wrote the wrong number for "A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth", it's 9200706000094. The one in the previous post was the "Dororo" one. Maybe the last digit needs to be trimmed off from the company's releases? Unlike most UPC codes, the numbers are listed in a single block, not broken like the ususual 1 23456 78901 2. That makes it difficult to see if the number is one that doesn't need to be entered.
ETA: Trimming the last digit won't work. I tested it with "200 Pound Beauty", but it claims it would still be invalid. Synner, We don't trim any digits off the UPC/EAN, we stopped doing that when 3.0 came out.  pdf | | | Paul Francis
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pdf256: Quote:
Synner,
We don't trim any digits off the UPC/EAN, we stopped doing that when 3.0 came out.
pdf You are misunderstanding me. I am trying to figure out why this UPC doesn't work. Sometimes you will UPC's that have extra numbers (like 12 digits, plus an extra smaller 2 to the right that we don't use). I was trying to figure out if it were a case like that, since entering all of the digits don't work. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 252 |
| | Posted: | | | | The checksum fails for all cases of those EAN examples.  I don't see a proper answer for you, apparently the software that generated those EANs was faulty, or they just made up the numbers. (they don't even appear to be valid ISBN-13s... Any others present that look like a UPC or EAN?) As to what Profiler can do with this, not sure... CN does seem to be readily available, and thru various usually reputable sources, if legitimate there's really no excuse for them to have created such consistently bad EANs (and I can't find a combination that works as UPC either.) If you have a barcode reader, you might try scanning it and see if you get a different number - maybe they only botched the human-readable element. As mentioned, AFAICT the only alternative would be to add by DiscID and make a very clear note why the EAN can't be used. | | | | Last edited: by Cyclograph |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 922 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hm, EAN beginning with 920 are currently reserved for future use and a valid HK EAN would begin with 489.
Very strange... | | | 
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Cyclograph: Quote:
...or they just made up the numbers Most likely. As you have to pay for EAN/UPC-numbers some clever garage company might just do that. DiscID seem the way to go. cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
Most likely. As you have to pay for EAN/UPC-numbers some clever garage company might just do that.
DiscID seem the way to go.
That is probably why some companies use the same EAN/UPC over and over again. However, Disc ID is not always the solution. I have several recent DVDs (all of German origin) where some anti-copy mechanism apparently masks the disc ID. | | | | Hans |
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