There isn't much talk about the SRP on the forum. The rules are very clear, to an extend. Just take the SRP from the original release and don't change it with just a few cents. But what about SRPs for contributions that haven't got a SRP contributed jet and aren't for sale any more or are replaced by re-releases (under the same UPC/EAN)? The SRP of the re-release isn't allowed. In some cases an old press release is still somewhere on the web. In other cases you can make an estimation by old posts on a DVD forum or other sources on the web. This last case can be a little dubious. It isn't really disallowed by the Rules, but it's a grey area. The only other option for now is to leave the SRP to default, in other words to zero Euro/Dollar/etc., but we all know that 99% of the DVDs aren't free of charge. So wouldn't it be better to enter an estimation by extensive research (for example by looking for equal releases from the same DVD distributor that were released on the same date)? In my opinion the other option would be adding 'Unknown' or just a blank field as default in the SRP field (that would be a feature request). When editing a profile you can leave the SRP field blank, but the program just automatically sets it to 0.00.

First I just want to check the opinions here. So what do you think?

That's the way I do it too. I don't want to make a fuss about it. I just like to hear some thoughts about it.

I've found the catalogues included with old releases come in handy at times.

I also have some old Orbit Media catalogues that list the SRP's of thousands of UK discs (they are a wholesale company).

Well, if it helps you, over here within a given time frame, most distributors release  their titles in a predictable price zone. Warner for example, for a standard release, way back when, used an SRP of $24.95 USD. So that may be of some help to you.

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Well, if it helps you, over here within a given time frame, most distributors release  their titles in a predictable price zone. Warner for example, for a standard release, way back when, used an SRP of $24.95 USD. So that may be of some help to you.

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Are you saying people should make an educated guess rather than documentation?

SRP's with zero are a pet peeve of mine.

I get and understand that some of the dvd's transferred from the old system don't have any info, but when someone's submitting a new dvd, really? Is it that hard to check out one or two websites that have an SRP for the dvd? Especially having a good many Canadian profiles in my local, where the contributors are more few and far between than the U.S. locality, there's a ton of profiles I've currently got sitting at either a) zero in SRP or b) U.S. currency in the wrong locality for SRP.

I usually do what Kathy tries to do. Search through the system to find the same release and add the SRP from there. And even if there's no other Canadian locality, it isn't too hard to figure the info out from the U.S. locality. If the SRP is between $27-29 U.S., it usually falls into the range of about $34 Canadian. $22-24 U.S., about $28-29 Canadian. Looking at profiles with an SRP released around the same time period from the same company in my local can also help.

It's not the best method, but it's worked so far where the sceeners have been concerned.