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And no i would not recommend Skip for that job although it would be a wet dream for him.

Skip hasn't posted in more than a week, what say you give it a rest. 

So I'm pretty sure yet another thread at DVDProfiler has run it's course and the useful information has stopped about three pages back? The question's obviously been answered, and this thread doesn't look like it's going anywhere but downhill.

Who says there ain't no consistency here? 

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I have been told time and time again that this is dvd profiler, not movie profiler...

I do not know who seriously can think that dvdprofiler is made to collect DVD, not movies.

With dvdprofiler, you can collect movies on DVDs, blu-rays, HD-DVDs, and now, with 3.6 custom collections, movies on laserdiscs, VHS, CD, and even ... reels of film.

But dvdprofiler is unable to help you to collect data DVDs, WII DVDs, navigation systems DVDs, programs DVDs and any sort of DVD that do not contain movies...

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The core of our data must come from the DVD, or the packaging.  That is the way the software was designed and intended to be used.

Not at all. At the beginning, we had no rules, just guidelines, and at that time the "all from screen" or "all from the cover" didn't exist (at that time, we had even tools to import data from IMDb). Rules came several years later, to avoid ping-ponging. So it is not true to pretend now that the software was designed to take data from DVD or covers.

What the situation was in the beginning, i do not know.  I know that since I have started (not very long by any standard), we have collected movies on DVD, or their direct variants (BR and HD).  Unless the online changes, I don't see VHS, BETA,LASER Reel, Or self recorded. Even though the new version has given the individual user more capabilities, the online is still restricted to what is collected.

If we were truly cataloging movies, then the movie itself would be primary.  Everything at that point would be for the movie.  IMDB catalogs movies, then orients the dvd's to the movie.  We catalog DVD's and such.  Our primary reference is the UPC, or disc ID.  Without these either of these 2 pieces, the online is nothing by design.

So by design, we collect DVD's.  The others are extensions for the user.

Even though the rules may not have existed in the beginning, they are there now.  The programmer (Ken) must have thought a necessity (even though submitted by other people) to incorporate these rules to achieve what he had in mind (at least at some point).  These rules all gear toward the dvd itself and not the movie.  Everything is from the DVD, the credits, the format, the audio, features, easter eggs, run time,studios and disc id/type.  These are very disc specific in the rules and in practice (hence different credits for dvd's based upon local and even release).  The rest is designed to come from the packaging (overview, title, and mc's).

So, yes, we catalog movie DVD's as a primary

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@ Jimmy - perhaps it's your love for some of the more.... risqué titles but when it comes to possessives size doesn't matter 

Now that one make me laugh this morning Rick 

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Why can't there be a way just to assign editors as adjudicators rather than having these brain fart sessions every time there's an issue where every tom dick and skip gives there interpretation of the rules.

Unless there is some form of adjudication to assigned certain members here i relay see no recourse from this mess people call a contribution system here.

I have been thinking this for years now.