Sorry for the vague title, I'm a little confused myself! 

Thing is, I've been contributing for about a week now, not long I know but I've done a few. I've noticed a few inconsistencies that I think I should get cleared up before I proceed.

Looking at the Buffy series in general, as I put the first disc of each season box set in, the other disks in the series are recognised in the one profile, surely the best way to do it as it fully utileses the 'Disks' tab in the profile options. No problem. However, whenI do the same for Angel, I have to literally put each disk I have in there as each disk has a profile. Now I'm all for child profiles, it's great but surely this eliminates the need for the 'Disks' tab and surely makes life harder. I'm the type of person who likes consistency and this is a classic example of how one series will have Season child profiles and another will have 30 discs worth of child profiles.

Another example is the 'Ten Commandments 50th Anniversary Collection', this has child profiles, ONE for the 1956 version (2-Discs) and one for the 1923 version. 'Ben Hur: 4-Disc Collector's Edition' however, each disc has it's own profile. This is problematic because, e.g. Charlton Heston appears in both disc 1 and 2, which are parts 1 and 2 of the movie respectively, therefore, any statistics I run on my collection will show Charlton heston as having an extra two profiles when he should really appear in one - for the entire 2-part movie of Ben Hur.

Does that make sense, if so what can I do about it? If not how can I clarify? lol.

If this is a problem, can I ask what rules there are about this particular problem, if there aren't any, can I suggest that we get some to clear this issue up. I for one don't like data redundancy (think that's the term) and I shouldn't imagine many others do either!

many thanks
Jonathan 

Thanks Skip,

I don't think I made myself clear though, My issue was not with the consistency in 'Ten Commandments' but was with 'Ben Hur', Charlton Heston appears in both Part 1 and Part 2, right, however, each disc has it's own profile, so Charlton Heston has a profile for each of those discs, i.e. he has 2 profiles for one film.

Ten Commandments is fine however, there are two discs for the 1956 movie, part 1 and 2 respectively, however, he only has 1 profile for that movie as the disks do not have seperate profiles.

This is what I meant about consistency, I fully agree with what you said about online consistency, but to me, this inconsistency is surely not good?

Just my two pennies! 

A "child" and "grandchild" profile are the same thing but a recent feature of DVDP allows for children of a profile to contain children themselves and thus are referred to as a "grandchild".

We don't go farther than that simply because there's no limit to how deep your nesting can go.

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Unfortunately, this becomes a little dependent on the region you are in.  For example, the region 1 version of the Ben Hur profile is a standard profile for the Charlton Heston version of the film complete with disk IDs.  There is an optional single child record to add the silent version separately, if people so choose.

Ben Hur is something of a special case in that the additional movie is a bonus feature and therefore the entire set is technically NOT a box set.  Many of us, however, like to separate the individual movies as best as Profiler can, so a special child was created in this particular case.  Generally speaking, the box sets, at least for features, do follow a consistent pattern.

This is mentioned in the rules as well:
http://www.invelos.com/dvdpro/contributions/Rules.aspx?display=discextras

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Bonus Feature Films The term "Bonus Feature Film" is used to define any feature film that is included as part of the bonus material for a single release. These are not the same as Double Features or Anthology Collections which are a collection of films grouped together which require the "Box Set" contribution rules. Do not confuse "Bonus Feature Films" with "Any video documentary material regarding the film, or those associated with it." Those are Featurettes. Some examples of Bonus Feature Films are:
Previous movie versions, example "Ben-Hur: Four-Disc Collector's Edition" which includes the 1925 version.
Companion movie bonuses, example "Season of the Witch" which includes "There's Always Vanilla" from the same director.
Create the profile for the main feature in line with the standard Contribution Rules with the title of the Bonus Feature Film added to the Other Features field. Create a child profile for the "Bonus Feature Film" using the individual UPC if available or use Disc ID (read on a DVD-ROM) if not available. When creating a child profile, do not remove the "Bonus Feature Film" Disc ID from the main profile. When profiling the "Bonus Feature Film", only profile the data associated with that film. Any features associated with the Main Feature belong to the Main Feature profile. Add the additional profile to the Main Profile as a child profile via the Box Set button. Cover Images: Use the cover image from the Main Feature profile's packaging. Exception: If the "Bonus Feature Film" is individually packaged, use the cover images from that packaging.

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Well As to your Buffy/Angel question, both methods are correct currently. I prefer the children, or with the complete series you would be talking about Grandchildren and they may NOT have been set up yet.

Not too sure I understand?

Daughter profiles are optional for TV box sets.
Some people like the original format where you just create one profile for the whole set with disc IDs for each disc included. Others like to have a daughter profile for each disc. So you see both types plus people will often upgrade an existing profile by adding daughter profiles or disc IDs so that both are available.

Hmmm somebody needs to fix that. Hello, Italy anyone listening?

Skip

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Hmmm somebody needs to fix that. Hello, Italy anyone listening?

Skip

Sorry, I just own the 1959 film. And it's Locality: UK.