| Registered: March 18, 2007 |  Posts: 18 |
| | Posted: | | | | How do we handle the following situation.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was first released as a digipack with slip cover on BD in the UK (ean: 5-050629-650112). This is also how it is listed in the database. However I ordered this title last week from amazon.co.uk and it now arrives in a normal 2-disc blu-ray case without a slip cover. What's the correct thing to do here, do we update the existing profile to the new packaging? |
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| Registered: February 10, 2008 |  Posts: 244 |
| | Posted: | | | | No... the online database should be for first release data... such re-release data should be kept local until the policy/possibilites change some time... | | | | Last edited: by MakoDeth |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mako is correct per the Rules.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's a good and fair question but, as has been stated, the Rules specifically say that in any situation where an EAN/UPC is re-used for a re-release in different packaging etc. we always use the data from the original release.
I think a lot of people would love to see the ability to have more than one profile so both the initial and re-release could be put into the database (not only the covers change but the release date and often the price) but the database uses the EAN/UPC and Locality as a combined 'master key' for so at present we can't have more than one entry with the same combination and the decision was made as per the rule above. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, we have the problem a lot with the (now defunct) Something Weird line. Most of them were initially issued in snapper cases, but on the profiles, most of them have been replaced with the reissued keepcase versions, since SW used the same UPC for both versions. Doesn't follow the rules, but it's too much work to keep them correct so I just gave up. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." | | | | Last edited: by gardibolt |
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