Just wanted to get a few opinions on this one.

Right now, I'm chatting with a fellow member over some contributions I made to a television box set and it's child profiles.

I updated and changed a ton of incorrect information for the profiles. One of the changes I made, was revising the rating system from Film, to Television. However, with that revision, I had to leave off the actual rating of R, as that's not an option for the Canadian Television rating system with DVDProfiler (the ratings available are NR, G, C, C8, PG, 14+, 18+ and Adult... some of which I'm completely unfamiliar with and have never actually seen...).

The member I'm chatting with (politely... it's not an arguement, just wanted to point that out!) is voting no because of the R rating being left out. They feel I should list the profiles under film to include the R rating. I feel the rating system should properly reflect that of the Television series, and unfortunately because of that, the R rating shouldn't be included.

Just seeking opinions on what everyone else would do.

Use the incorrect Rating System of Film and include the R rating
or
Use the correct Rating System of Television and exclude the R rating

(the rating details have been entered for all the specific profiles regardless of what system the rating falls under)

Thanks for any opinions!!

If I were setting up a new profile, I would do either.

But if I were contributing to an existing profile, I wouldn't use the Film/TV feature if it removed the rating. To me, fixing one problem while creating another is not preferred.

I would make a feature request to amend the Canadian ratings to include the R rating. Unless the ratings are changed, I would leave the profile with the R rating.

This is just my personal preference. The rules don't address how to use functionality that doesn't work right. 

I would like to point out that regardless if they are TV series or FILMS, as soon as they are on 'Home VIdeo Disc' only one standard is used, i.e.: Home video Rating system as seen in those 2 links provided

Rating - Canada
http://www.cmpda.ca/jsp/v-rating.jsp

and for each Provinces: (Quebec-Canada is quite interesting.. good thing that DVD Prof has it included!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_motion_picture_rating_system

Quoting Unicus69:

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Quoting huskersports:

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Use the TV and no rating because it's Television first and foremost.  You don't have to include ratings at all if you don't want to, regardless of whether it's a film or a TV show/series.

I agree with this.  Listing them as 'film', just to save the rating, doesn't feel right.

Doing so makes it difficult to sort by rating (From the highest rating to the lowest).. especially if you wish to have a 'clean' printout for review by colleagues... I know that some of you will think "Heck, he can change the his personal database locally to reflect what ever rating he/she wants"... true but would be a good thing to have the database also reflect the correct rating 

Will sound strange but I do not really care for 'Flim Rating' or 'TV Rating': what I mean here, as long as I can have the correct Rating, I am ok with that.. pretty selfish statement here.. 

Eric

Quoting huskersports:

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Use the TV and no rating because it's Television first and foremost.  You don't have to include ratings at all if you don't want to, regardless of whether it's a film or a TV show/series.

the trouble with this idea is that you are throwing away data (the R rating) just to show that it's a TV show. And (without knowing what the TV show is) it's probably blindingly obvious that its a TV show.. but the rating??

And as North Said - we don't want to lose the rating if that will help parental control. Knowing it was a TV program does nothing to show the rating of the show.

I agree with Mithi... I would hold off on any change and request the correct rating be added to the program. And if I am not mistaken... you won't even have to wait for a program update... he can do it through a database update.

Generally speaking, in Canada (English Provinces) they use the standard Canadian rating system as provided earlier.

The only major difference is the french part of Canada (Quebec) where they use a different standard - less detailed than the one found in the US and the English part of Canada.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_motion_picture_rating_system