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| Registered: March 18, 2007 |  Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | Karl May complete collection comes in a beautiful wooden box . This box contains 6 boxsets, each with 2 or 3 discs. DVDs don't have their own IDs, only those 6 boxsets. The wooden box is also without UPC but I would like to have it listed in my collection. Is there any way how to contribute it? No UPC and of course no disc ID... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | At this time the only thing you can do is a manual profile... which can't be contributed to the main database... but all you have to do is click add by title and uncheck the download from Invelos box at the bottom of the add dvd page. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm afraid not. You can only contribute either by UPC or Disc ID.
You're saying only the 6 boxsets have their own IDs. If you mean they have a UPC of their own, you can contribute the individual boxsets. Then you could contribute the individual discs by Disc ID.
If the individual discs had their own UPC, you could use the Disc ID for the first disc in the wooden box to contribute the wooden box, but from what you're writing I gather that's not possible because you will need that Disc ID for the first disc itself.
Sorry!
Merry Christmas to you! |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm afraid you got it right dee1959jay  |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | First three movies from the whole collection have UPC sticked on keep case. However, the cover art itself is without UPC. So I could use these UPCs from cases for the 3 movies and use disc ID from first movie as an ID for the whole 16 discs collection.
Is that an acceptable solution? | | | | Last edited: by trenki |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 175 |
| | Posted: | | | | No, it wouldn't be. The DiscID for the first movie is specifically for the first movie. You can do it locally for your database however you want, but it must be in accordance with the rules when it comes to contribution.
Unless there is a seperate UPC for this boxset that can be contributed then it would have to be a local thing like Pete said.
That's a nice looking boxset too. | | | | Gotta nip it in the bud, Andy! |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | With all due respect, I beg to differ with Overseer. There is nothing in the Contribution Rules against your alternative solution, and as far as I know there are sets that have already been contributed in exactly the same way (can't remember which ones, but there have been discussions in the forums earlier on).
The only thing is: do not include any disc info in the "Discs" section of the profile for your wooden box. Use the first disc as an identifier for the set only, and then you're fine with the rules. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting trenki: Quote:
Karl May complete collection comes in a beautiful wooden box . This box contains 6 boxsets, each with 2 or 3 discs. DVDs don't have their own IDs, only those 6 boxsets. The wooden box is also without UPC but I would like to have it listed in my collection. Is there any way how to contribute it? No UPC and of course no disc ID... This may not be relevant to your question, and sorry if I didn't understand what you mean, but all DVD discs have a Disc ID, as far as I know. The program can read the Disc ID if you insert the disc in the DVD player of a computer where DVDP is running. | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | My mistake, I meant they do not have their own UPCs, not IDs of course. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 445 |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | Generally all product (at least here in the US) has a UPC on it. I know the actual cases for the Voltron tins don't have a UPC on them, but there was a UPC sticker on the shrink wrap that was on the case. Did this come with any kind of shrink wrap or peice of paper/cardboard around it that had a UPC? If so that would be the UPC for the set. Otherwise to contribute it I believe the Disc ID is your only other choice
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | No, the wooden box had no UPC. It was a special gift from the shop if you ordered all 16 DVDs at once. This is a limited edition, each box has a unique collection number, so it is a nice collector's item. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
With all due respect, I beg to differ with Overseer. There is nothing in the Contribution Rules against your alternative solution, and as far as I know there are sets that have already been contributed in exactly the same way (can't remember which ones, but there have been discussions in the forums earlier on).
The only thing is: do not include any disc info in the "Discs" section of the profile for your wooden box. Use the first disc as an identifier for the set only, and then you're fine with the rules. Since this seems to be a case of boxsets within boxsets, the first disc ID in the first boxset would be needed to profile the first disc in the first boxset, therefore it would be unwise to use it to profile the "wooden box" grandparent profile. If each of the grandchildren (the discs within each of the 6 individual boxsets) had their own UPC's, then you could have used the first Disc ID for the "wooden box". Otherwise, it should not be done. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting trenki: Quote:
No, the wooden box had no UPC. It was a special gift from the shop if you ordered all 16 DVDs at once. This is a limited edition, each box has a unique collection number, so it is a nice collector's item. It sounds like to me, you need to catalogue the boxsets that you actually ordered. The wooden box (for profiler) would be irrelevant, it was a gift from the shop that you purchased them. |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | @ Hal:
I too gathered that these are box sets within a box set, but I also gathered that the first three discs (grandchildren) do have their own UPC. Hence the first disc ID would still be "available" as an identifier for the parent profile.
Surely that's not a solution to win any "beauty contest" with, but it's the only one I can think of. |
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