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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, just got the latest release of High Noon that just came out today. The profile doesn't even have disk ID's, yet we've got 25 uncredited actors.  Thanks. | | | | Last edited: by mdnitoil |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quote:
yet we've got 25 uncredited actors Undocumented, I suppose? | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course. My only consolation is that this release actually has a commentary, so perhaps we can finally document all these folks. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | One can only hope. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | I thought copying information from an old profile was an acceptable method of adding information to a new release. Is this not the case? Or are we talking a special case here because of all the uncredited actors?
KM | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS!
Dolly's not alone. You can also clone profiles.
You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think it is acceptable (minus the uncredited... they should be sourced per profile IMO)... but I think it should also be verified against the credits anyway... 2 reasons...
1. how do you know for sure where the info in the other profile came from
2. even if other profile says it comes from the disc itself... everyone can make mistakes... better safe then sorry. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with Pete. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm throwing in the idea of the reference-profile again, so that identified uncredited cast members don't have to be sourced for every profile, but just once for every movie.  | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Astrakan: Quote:
I thought copying information from an old profile was an acceptable method of adding information to a new release. Is this not the case? Or are we talking a special case here because of all the uncredited actors?
KM Generally speaking, I would agree with you. For me, the problem is primarily the undocumented as anything else can quite easily be verified. Look, the first DVD release in region 1 of High Noon was back in '98. Now, I don't know exactly when Profiler got started, but it's safe to say that this movie would have been an early one to get added. As most folks know, we weren't always so...careful...with where we got our data back then. All well and good, but this blindly copying of old profiles means that I can theoretically be recycling 10-year-old garbage. To compound matters, once that stuff gets in the profile, now it's incumbent upon me to prove that it shouldn't be there. For all I know, all that information in the profile is perfectly legitimate, but the problem is that none of us really do know. We just figure, "Well it's been there for a while so it must be good." I like the idea of a reference profile. I will say, if you are going to go through the trouble of copying a profile, then it shouldn't be too much to ask to copy the pertinent notes as well. At least for the stuff that can't be verified against the disk. Oh, and if there are no existing notes to justify uncredited, that alone should be a pretty big clue. | | | | Last edited: by mdnitoil |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I think it is acceptable (minus the uncredited... they should be sourced per profile IMO)... but I think it should also be verified against the credits anyway... 2 reasons...
1. how do you know for sure where the info in the other profile came from
2. even if other profile says it comes from the disc itself... everyone can make mistakes... better safe then sorry. I was actually going say the same thing. I don't see a problem in copying only the credited actors to the new profile for a temporary fix and once the disc gets released, verify the info. | | | We're on a mission from God.
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