| Registered: May 15, 2008 |  Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | I live in Newfoundland Canada and just purchased UPC 025195005920 (The Kingdom) at a local grocery store. The invelos database has both Canadian locality and a US locality entries for this DVD. The only difference that I can see is that the Canadian locality entry has the Canadian rating system logo on the back cover while th e U.S. locality back cover scan shows the U.S. rating system logo (R). The copy that I bought here in Canada has the U.S. rating logo and matches the U.S. locality entry in the invelos database. Should I just leave the locality as U.S. in my database or should I use the U.S. database entry for my personal database and change the locality to Canada and then lock the profile? What is the best way to handle U.S. DVD's that are sold in Canada? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | Or Canadian Localities that are sold only in the USA region.., Good question..! .
I'm presently dealing with this exact scenario myself (in reverse) ... But to answer I believe if the rear jacket shows both ratings ( the R rating doesn't usually help us out too much as both USA and Canada have R ratings for 18 ., but the misaligned PG13 and PG14A is the trouble spot..
And if the 'ratings' reflect both regions or country and there is NO FRENCH on overview or front jacket,, you can safely say USA ..
If you find the same ratings (but not 14a or pg13 ),, and the overview has been split into English and French, the locality most likely would be Canada..
if you find half the text on the FRONT cover in English and French, you could also say safely that the DVD is Canada/Quebec .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd say: leave the locality as US, because it sounds like that's what you bought.
That will have the added advantage you'll receive updates for the profile, which won't be the case if you change the locality. |
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| Registered: September 30, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,805 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mardon: Quote:
Should I just leave the locality as U.S. in my database or should I use the U.S. database entry for my personal database and change the locality to Canada and then lock the profile? What is the best way to handle U.S. DVD's that are sold in Canada? If the disc in question matches the U.S. locality profile, I would just enter the U.S. locality dvd into my personal database and leave it at that. No need to lock it or anything. Your personal collection doesn't have to be strictly Canadian locality just because you live in Canada. Plus if you put it into your personal, change the locality and lock it, you'll miss any updates that come through for it. Running a query on my own personal collection, 45.4% (981) of my collection is Canadian in locality and 54.5% (1176) is U.S. in locality. I'd say a good chunk of my U.S. locality movies were purchased locally, where as only a few actually came from the U.S. or U.S. outlets (such as amazon.com). | | | | The night is calling. And it whispers to me soflty come and play. |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Often, the same package will be sold in the US and Canada. It just has both ratings on it. The only profile difference will be the rating and SRP. |
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