When you are entering the Distributor should you put in the locality suffix or not?

Paramount Home Entertainment
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)

Quoting T!M:

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The latest discussion on this in the Contribution Rules Committee forum here showed a pretty overwhelming support for eliminating these locality suffixes. Now that we're finally able to track the DVD distributor for all our profiles (as opposed the previous "only if there's room for it" approach), it would be a shame not be able to filter on the general "Paramount Home Entertainment", but instead being stuck with a bunch of separate PHE-entries, one for each locality, each with it's own suffix. If I want to filter on locality, I'll do that, but there's no reason to repeat it in the DVD distributor field. IMHO, these locality suffixes are just as unwanted/pointless as the various "Inc." "Ltd." company suffixes that we always leave out.

What T!M said; I've wanted rid of these for ages and it's good if we're generally in agreement!

If there is a Country suffix on the cover, then that is what we should enter IMO.

I can't see that this is any different than the lenghty discussion we've had regarding Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment recently.

Quoting T!M:

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Quoting Berak:

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I can't see that this is any different than the lenghty discussion we've had regarding Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment recently.

We drop the ", Inc." suffix from Fox's credit, don't we? This is a similarly pointless suffix that doesn't tell us anything - we already know the profile's locality is U.K. because of the profile's locality.

Corporate identifiers and localities are two different issues IMO. If the company is credited with a locality identifier, then we should enter it as such.

Quoting Berak:

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If the company is credited with a locality identifier, then we should enter it as such.

Well, I strongly disagree. Again, like the corporate identifiers, including them serves no purpose whatsoever. The upcoming re-population of the distributor field is the ideal moment to weed these out once and for all.

Quoting T!M:

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Quoting Berak:

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If the company is credited with a locality identifier, then we should enter it as such.

Well, I strongly disagree. Again, like the corporate identifiers, including them serves no purpose whatsoever. The upcoming re-population of the distributor field is the ideal moment to weed these out once and for all.

I agree that thiis is the ideal moment to make a desicion on the matter. We have different opinions, yes, but that's just healthy.. 

Either way will be fine by me, as long as we all do it the same way...

Quoting T!M:

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This is a similarly pointless suffix that doesn't tell us anything

So Universal Pictures the studio and Universal Pictures Finland the finnish distributor are essentially the exact same thing? It tells us that its a diffrent company, which is exactly why they chose a diffrent name in the first place.

I say keep them, as they are registered companys, and are part of the name. I dont hear anyone saying that we should group every single studio from Universal to NBC Universal just to make it easier, this is no diffrent. IF the company is just a side office in another country thats a diffrent thing, but these are usually proper companys.

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So Universal Pictures the studio and Universal Pictures Finland the finnish distributor are essentially the exact same thing?

No, they're not, obviously. The studio "Universal Pictures" goes in the "studios" field, and the distributor "Universal Pictures", if that's the name they use, goes into the new "media distributor" field.

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IF the company is just a side office in another country thats a diffrent thing

That's exactly what it is. The locality suffix is just an indication of that it's a local branch of a larger, international company. In many cases, "Universal Pictures Finland" will sell you the exact same disc in Finland as "Universal Pictures (UK)" will sell in the U.K. - just with a localized cover. In other cases, they may actually adjust the content a little (different audio tracks/subtitles, for instance), but IMHO they're both still "Universal Pictures"-distributed DVD's, though. I reiterate that we already store the locality of the disc elsewhere, meaning there's nothing to gain, while leaving them out gets us a less bloated studio list plus the ability to have DVD Profiler show you a list of all the "Universal Pictures" DVD's in your collection.