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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 13 |
| | Posted: | | | | How does the system want to handle this? The Adventures of the Black Stallion: Season 1 (096009487492) is a 4 disc set. It's packed in a digipack with a slipcover but each dvd is printed with disc artwork and each has it's own unique UPC printed on the disc as well.
So do I add by UPC or Disc ID? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Never seen that before, but I would go with the UPC.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Wow... that is a first for me too. I would say as long as there is a UPC for the disc... I would use it. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | The Adventures of the Black Stallion is released by Echo Bridge (formerly Platinum Disc) correct? They print UPC numbers on ALL their discs now.
I own quite a few titles from that studio where the UPC is printed on the disc label... | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 13 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes it is Echo Bridge |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Savagan: Quote:
Yes it is Echo Bridge Yep. I remember once it even caused a rental problem. I was renting some movie released by them, and the clerk was trying to scan the disc label UPC, and it wouldn't even come up in the system!  I agree with the majority votes BTW... | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just don't understand why every disc in a set would have it's own UPC. Maybe EB is planning on single releases later down the road? If they had single releases now the individual UPC's would make sense, but with the set first it's just odd to even have them. I honestly can't recall ever seeing a UPC code on a disc itself and have been through thousands of dvds (over 800 owned, plus rents, library check-outs, borrowed from friends, etc.). |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Biddaddy: Shhhhhhhh!!!!! Don't give them any ideas. Skip  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 72 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am guessing BigDaddy is correct. The UPC on the disc was probably the assigned UPC if the discs were every released individually. Like many of the Universal TV sets. The DVDs are kept in slim cases. Each slim cases has its own UPC. Although these have never been released seperatly, they are set up in case they ever wanted to.
Stargate SG-1. these were the same way. Some of the early seasons were released individually. (not sure if they did this with later seasons.
This company just did the strange thing of putting the UPC on the Disc. There is some logic to this. The company could do another run of these DVDs, use the same disc art and everything. Then produce the individual package art. The individual UPC would now match the disc art/UPC |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not a hundred percent sure, because I already had both seasons by then, but I think I saw a season one, disc one dvd for Advs. Black Stallion at Wal-Mart the other day...so it is quite likely that they're trying to break up the set. Before they released the first season, they had two volumes of the show with about 5 episodes on each. This new one had a different cover, I think.
It's not a new thing for this series to be broken up into individual volumes. | | | | Lori |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting LJG: Quote:
It's not a new thing for this series to be broken up into individual volumes. But it is a silly thing to break up a $5 boxset into 3 or 4 $1-2 dvds.  Unless this is one of EB's "upper tier" titles that carry higher price tags. I only have a couple EB discs and a few Platinum ones. All are cheapy's except one I got at Hollywood's blowout sale (Roman). |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Quoting LJG:
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It's not a new thing for this series to be broken up into individual volumes.
But it is a silly thing to break up a $5 boxset into 3 or 4 $1-2 dvds.
Unless this is one of EB's "upper tier" titles that carry higher price tags. I only have a couple EB discs and a few Platinum ones. All are cheapy's except one I got at Hollywood's blowout sale (Roman). No, they are about 5-10 bucks for the broken up discs. Originally they had 2 volumes out there (The Black Stallion and The Return of the Black Stallion...but not the movies)...I think they were 10 bucks each. They then released the complete first season for about 30 bucks, then the 2nd complete season for about $30 as well. It was just a couple weeks ago that I saw a new volume out there in the $5 bin, that was Season 1, Vol. 1 or something like that. Whether they renamed the first one they released, I'm not sure, b/c I think they're basically the same episodes. I know that the second cheap one they released (The Return of the Black Stallion) was from the second season or very late first season...I'd have to double check...but they weren't continuous episodes. | | | | Lori |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | The thing that I've noticed about Echo Bridge (ex-Platinum Disc) is that they're always repackaging their products. Most of the old Platinum Disc DVD's were silently re-released with slightly different "Echo Bridge" covers. They even re-released a lot of older titles last year with slightly different coverart, and they included a bonus CD.
The addition of a UPC on the disc label's (and they do this on all their releases now, even single discs) is probably an internal thing with them. | | | | Corey | | | | Last edited: by Katatonia |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
The thing that I've noticed about Echo Bridge (ex-Platinum Disc) is that they're always repackaging their products. Most of the old Platinum Disc DVD's were silently re-released with slightly different "Echo Bridge" covers. They even re-released a lot of older titles last year with slightly different coverart, and they included a bonus CD.
The addition of a UPC on the disc label's (and they do this on all their releases now, even single discs) is probably an internal thing with them. Sure enough, after reading this pulled out my Prom Night and Roman discs (the only EB titles I own so far), and they do both have UPC's. At least these match the covers. Have to say I'm not much of a fan of this. Sure they are small and mostly unobstructive on the disc art, but they just don't belong there IMO. As long as they don't go back to the jewel cases the early Platinum discs had, I guess it's O.K. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Sure enough, after reading this pulled out my Prom Night and Roman discs (the only EB titles I own so far), and they do both have UPC's. At least these match the covers.
Have to say I'm not much of a fan of this. Sure they are small and mostly unobstructive on the disc art, but they just don't belong there IMO.
As long as they don't go back to the jewel cases the early Platinum discs had, I guess it's O.K. They are especially annoying for certain DVD rental stores such as Hastings, which put an "O-Ring" sticker (for lack of a better term) on the center hub with a unique UPC for their computers. I've rented a couple Echo Bridge releases lately there...and the clerks have scanned in that UPC! Which obviously won't work there... | | | | Corey |
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