The one on the left is not the UPC/EAN code for our purpose. It is a ISBN code
Download by title your profile.
In the DVD Profiler menu go to DVD
Change locality: to your if necesary
Change EAN or UPC: 6937475391576
and resubmit this profile, it should be accepted as it is not in the database

Incorrect, Giga. The one on the lft is a UPC/EAN ode. it is a dual use barcode dealing with BOTH ISBN and UPC/EAN. This type or barcode is very common in the literary world, I can't say I have ever seen it used in the film world before. That said I THINK the one on the right would be operative for our purposes, at the same time I see some anomalies in the scan that raise some red flags for me.

Skip

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Incorrect, Giga. The one on the lft is a UPC/EAN ode. it is a dual use barcode dealing with BOTH ISBN and UPC/EAN. This type or barcode is very common in the literary world, I can't say I have ever seen it used in the film world before. That said I THINK the one on the right would be operative for our purposes, at the same time I see some anomalies in the scan that raise some red flags for me.

Skip

Skip, you and Giga both say that the one to be used in Profiler is the one on the right.  Why do you say Gigi as incorrect?  He said that the one on the left is not the UPC/EAN code for our purpose.  He didn't say it wasn't a UPC/EAN code, only that it wasn't the one to use in Profiler.  Which is what you said, too.  So where is he wrong?  

A barcode does not a UPC\EAN make

you can print ANYTHING in a barcode, including Alpha characters (even dashes, semi-colons, etc). And if you use the two dimensional barcodes (PDF417 for example) you can actually put a few pages of text in the space of a barcode.

As FredLooks said, its just an ISBN printed using the symbology generally used for an EAN-13. All ISBN's i've seen are generally also represented by a barcode just like UPC's

ISBN = International Standard Book Number
UPC = Universal Product Code (even different types here UPC-A, UPC-E)
EAN = European Article Number

All 3 can be represented as 'barcodes'

-Agrare

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T thought I explained it, Ken> Giga was not correct in his definition that the one one the right was not a UPC/EAN but something else, simply not correct.

I thought the one on the right was correct simply based on my own knowledge of the system and recognizing the number sequence used.

Skip

Except Giga didn't say anything about the one on the RIGHT.  He said the one on the LEFT "is not the UPC/EAN code for our purpose."  Giga was telling Axe to USE the one on the right, 6937475391576.  So he agrees with you.  

Skip, I think you need to get your glasses changed before you respond to these threads.

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Ken:

Giga said "It is a ISBN code"

If you read my initial response that ws the presise point that I addressed. It is not SIMPLY an ISBN code, it is a mu;lti-purpose UPC/EAN code. Folowing the format used by this particular tile is unusual though not unheard of. By the same token we have numerous title where the ISBN code is packaged with UPC, see Buck Rogers in the 25th Century for just one such example.

So I believe you misunderstood what I was saying.

Skip

In fact, you were both right.

Giga says "It is an ISBN code", and is right. It is an ISBN number.

Skip says "It is not SIMPLY an ISBN code, it is a multi-purpose UPC/EAN code.", and is also right. It is an EAN code.

It's like if I make a statement like "this is my 'phone", and someone contradicts me by saying "No! It is also a portable computer!". Well, yes it is. But that doesn't stop it being a phone, does it?

Sorry gang, as skip did inform me, I edited the original message so the error would not be there anymore and would clearify my posting. (an > the) (for our purpose)
Last edited: March 12, 2008 10:10 AM by Giga Wizard