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This is similar to the HD DVD combo discs where you have a DVD version of the movie on one side and an HD DVD on the other. The audio tracks and features are almost always different and sometimes it is not even the same print. Animal House for example had different aspect ratios for each version.

On one hand I am inclined to have a child profile for the DVD version of the film, on the other I am not sure if it is worth the extra work.

I guess my suggestion would be, when or if changes are made to accomodate combo format releases (on one disc or two) to have the main profile be for the Blu-ray/HD DVD only and then create a child profile for accompanying DVD versions of the film. Not really a Box-set, more of a mutant-hybrid.

We will definately be seeing more of these down the road, especially if they ever work out the kinks for Blu-ray/DVD combo discs.

Only a suggestion, I am not married to it.

BTW skippy, you cannot check both the BD and DVD formats. Checking one unchecks the other. You can only check two formats for HD DVD/DVD. I think this is because there is no such thing as a banner for Blu-ray/DVD combo discs and so that option was not necessary. Also HD DVD did not have regions the way Blu-ray does, regions that would necessarily be different from any included DVD.

More often than not, they just stuck whatever the most recent DVD release of the film was on the DVD side. Kind of like the DVD version that was included in last week's The Princess Bride Blu-ray was the 20th anniversary version that came out in 2007.

In any case it would be good to have a consensus or plan of action for dealing with these. Something that could also be applied to the HD DVD combo discs, obsolete though they may be, would be ideal in my opinion.

I would set up the UPC profile to the blu-ray specs and folks could have the option of adding a Disc ID profile for the DVD info. That's what we did for HD DVD-DVD Combos...although I'm not sure if anyone went to the trouble of submitting Disc ID profiles for the DVD.

I would class it as a bonus film as well (like the Ben-Hur example in the rules).
That way those who want the DVD info will have it on the child profile and those who don't, don't have to add that profile to their collection.

How the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray with bonus DVD was handled last fall:

Main profile: Blu-ray
Child profile: Bonus DVD version

And the Disc ID of the child was added to the Main profile so people would know it existed.

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I would class it as a bonus film as well (like the Ben-Hur example in the rules).
That way those who want the DVD info will have it on the child profile and those who don't, don't have to add that profile to their collection.

Your comparison is both incorrect and invalid. The Ben-Hur exception was designed for two movies which carry the Same Title but are two TOTALLY different films, in this case the silent version and the Heston version. It was not intended to allow for multiple copies of the SAME film in a set. THough this may be the best answer. I just want to make sure that you understand the original purpose AND the difference between say Bolt and Ben-Hur.

Skip

IMO the bonus film rule would fit best.