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Same EAN Code Different Movie
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDragon Racing
Registered: March 20, 2007
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I got 2 DIFFERENT original movies

But they have the same EAN code.

Now my DVD profiler 3 won't accept the EAN because there is already another (different) movie in my database with that in.

How can it be solved?

Changing the Locality ??
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
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If they are both from the same locality, try adding one using the disc ID instead.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKulju
Registered: March 14, 2007
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If they are both from the same locality, try adding one using the disc ID instead.


I hope this will be corrected on next version. Now if you have two movies on the same side of the disc and they are part of boxset you cannot ad them to database. These collections are getting more common every day...
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
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You can add the profile to the database, you just have to create a profile that contains both films and use dividers to separate the cast & crew.
It's the best we can do for now, anyway.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKulju
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You can add the profile to the database, you just have to create a profile that contains both films and use dividers to separate the cast & crew.
It's the best we can do for now, anyway.


Yep, I knew that, but it's not the best way. I cannot understand why we can have two DVDs with same UPC, but different locality, but not two DVDs with same UPC, but different title.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
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If I remember rightly the reason the program is restricted to one profile per UPC was so it couldn't be adapted for commercial use (a small DVD rental store using it for stock control, for example).
But it is becoming more and more of a problem now, with many titles being repackaged into differing boxsets, so hopefully we'll get multiple profiles soon.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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My guess would be that the UPC sounded like a good identifier back then.

Remember how it all started, the UPC had no leading number and the localities were introduced way later.

I am sure that Ken originally didn't expect it to be a world-wide success.
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