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| Registered: December 15, 2008 |  Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | The italian media company Cecchi Gori Home made a terrible mistake: the EAN code 8-033109-394338 is tied to two different Blu-Ray discs.
The discs are:
- La Leggenda di Sleepy Hollow
- Die Hard: duri a morire
I Can't add Sleepy Hollow to my collection because a different profile for the same EAN code is already in existence.
Is it possible, in this peculiar case, to enable a doubled EAN? | | | | The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder (Alfred Hitchcock) |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's impossible to have identical EAN's for different films.
What I would do it use the Disc ID for one of the films to be able to add it.
I think you could even contribute it that way - as long as you explained why you weren't using the EAN on the box. (If I'm wrong on that I'm sure someone will say so). |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah... the only way you would be able to add it is with Disc ID. That is if you have a Blu-Ray Rom in your system. If you don't... the best you would be able to do is make a manual profile for it. (Download by title and uncheck the Download from Invelos box at the bottom of the screen). | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | First of all, as this is your first post: Welcome to the Asylum!  The situation you described is not unique - I've seen it happen before. As the others have said, the only way to contribute a profile would be to create one by Disc ID (if you have a Blu-Ray drive). Have you tried a title search to find out if someone else already entered it? If you need to create a manual profile, you might consider what is called "cloning" of an already existing profile for the same title. Here's a guide on how to do that. However make sure you check the data against the actual disc in your possession! Happy profiling! DJ |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 681 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
The situation you described is not unique - I've seen it happen before. Indeed. In Finnish releases this has happened with "Gilda" (1946) and "The Deep" (1977). The covers for "The Deep" got into the online database first so those are now the ones showing in my Gilda-profile online...  I guess most localities have one or more issues of this kind. | | | Mika
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
It's impossible to have identical EAN's for different films.
Didn't you mean it's possible to have identical EAN's for different films? I think that's what you meant, especially when you give the tip about using Disc ID for one of the titles. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Quoting Pantheon:
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It's impossible to have identical EAN's for different films.
Didn't you mean it's possible to have identical EAN's for different films? I think that's what you meant, especially when you give the tip about using Disc ID for one of the titles. unless he meant its impossible to have identical EAN's for different films in your database -Agrare |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Agrare: Quote:
Quoting kdh1949:
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Quoting Pantheon:
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It's impossible to have identical EAN's for different films.
Didn't you mean it's possible to have identical EAN's for different films? I think that's what you meant, especially when you give the tip about using Disc ID for one of the titles.
unless he meant its impossible to have identical EAN's for different films in your database
-Agrare That's the way I read it. It is impossible to have the same UPC assigned to different titles within the database, the DVD Distributors CAN issue the same UPC to as many titles as they wish...which i find very curious and suspicious, since it is something I have never encountered within Region 1. I know it is very commonplace in other regions though I am not sure why...it is curious and sometimes highly suspicious. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Agrare: Quote:
unless he meant its impossible to have identical EAN's for different films in your database
-Agrare Thanks Agrare (and Skip, too). It makes sense the way you guys explain it. I was thinking that in the real world it is possible to have more than one title showing the same EAN. As dee1959jay and draxen say it happens all the time. Of course you are right that in our database it is impossible. I just got confused about what Pantheon meant. I hope I didn't add to EtaBeta's confusion.  | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know that Criterion screwed up and issued two R1 discs with the same UPC; one of them was Double Suicide because I always get updates for it trying to change it to the other one. The other one is Good Morning. They apparently were reissued in 2003 by Criterion with different UPC codes. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." | | | | Last edited: by gardibolt |
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