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Disc IDs 
Add disc information for each disc using a DVD-ROM drive. Use the default descriptions wherever possible; do not change "Main Feature" to the film’s title. Use one description per disc. If a disc is double-sided, there is only one description for that disc.
Do not enter each side as a separate disc.
If a movie is on both sides of a disc in Widescreen and Pan & Scan or Full Frame versions, identify this by entering the Side A description as "Main Feature (Widescreen)" and the Side B description as "Main Feature (Pan & Scan)" or "Main Feature (Full Frame)", or the reverse if that is the order on the disc sides.

If a film spans 2 discs, add (Part 1) and (Part 2) to the “Main Feature” description.

If your Disc ID differs from the Disc ID in the main database, you may change it and re-contribute it if you are doing a wider contribution, but don't make a specific contribution for this reason. All Disc IDs will be stored in the main database for a future development of DVD Profiler.

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"Box Sets" Containing More Than One Film
The term "Box Set" is used to define any release that includes more than one film. The main examples are:
° Sets where each film is packaged individually, and held together in a package of some kind.
° Sets where each film is on a separate disc, but not individually packaged. This includes gatefold Digipaks and 2-Disc sets in normal DVD cases.
° Sets containing 2 films, one on each side of Dual-Sided DVD.

Create individual profiles for each movie in these Box Sets. Use individual UPCs if they are available or use Disc ID (read on a DVD-ROM) if not. Create each of these individual profiles in line with the standard Contribution Rules with one exception - Cover Images. If a film is individually packaged, use the cover images from that packaging.

If a Box Set contains discs of Bonus Material for individual films, do not create separate profiles for these discs. Add the information to the individual film’s profile as normal for a single film 2-Disc set. If there is a disc of Bonus Material for all films included in the Box-set, create a separate profile for this disc.

For the main Box-set profile, add the individual profiles via "Box set" button. The following Clarifications to the standard Rules need to be used:
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Disc IDs Do not include any Disc IDs on the main profile - these are listed on each of the individual profiles
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TV Series on DVD
Disc IDs Label each of the discs containing episodes of the series. If there is a separate disc of extras with no episodes, use the standard "Bonus Materials" description.

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Individual profiles for each disc may be submitted if desired, but this is not required. Add these profiles to the box set contents of the parent profile.

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Quoting the Rules (from the TV Set section):

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Individual profiles for each disc may be submitted if desired, but this is not required. Add these profiles to the box set contents of the parent profile.

I interpret this to mean that you profile each physical disc, not each side of each physical disc.

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The rule goes on to say:

Create each of these individual profiles in line with the standard Contribution Rules...

Some people interpret that to mean they can follow the box set rule, which says that you make a profile for each side of the disc.  I remember this coming up once before, but I can't seem to find it.

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Profiles each disc, not each side.

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There are two ways that child profiles for a TV set using double-sided discs can be created.  I've seen them done both ways in the main database


Child Profile Option 1 (treat each disc as 2-sided):
  1. Disc 1
          Side A
          Side B
  2. Disc 2
        Side A
        Side B

Advantage:    Fewer children to deal with.  Profiler can account for Side A/Side B disc IDs
Disadvantage:  If set is re-released on single-sided DVDs owners of re-release sets would have to find a way to spin off Side B into unique child profile

Child Profile Option 2 (treat each side as unique disc):
  1. Disc 1 Side A
  2. Disc 1 Side B
  3. Disc 2 Side A
  4. Disc 2 Side B

[u]Advantage:    Doesn't matter if re-release is single-sided since each side is already profiled
Disadvantage: Twice as many child profiles[/u]

I have only stated one advantage/disadvantage to each option, but I'm sure there are more.  There has been talk of one day having the capability to have profiles at the episode level for TV series, and I'm not sure which option I mention would fit into an episode-level profiling scheme (if it would make any difference).

I have purchased a TV set which is now on single sided discs that was initially released on double sided discs.  I don't remember the specific set(s) now (and I am not at home to look at my database to try and find them).  I do recall wondering how to handle the profiles since the online ones didn't line up with the version I own.  It would have been easier for me to enter the set in my database if each side of the disc had its own profile.  But when I get a set with 2-sided discs, my personal preference is to profile the disc not the side.  I'm not sure the Rules adequately handle this, since the TV section doesn't really address the 2-sided issue and the Box Set  section differentiates between a disc that has a different movie on either side of the disc and a disc which has a different version (WS/P&S) of the SAME movie on either side of the disc.

So I share lnxfreak123's quandry about dealing with 2-sided TV show sets.