In these cases where TV movies has been put through the MPAA for a rating like that I use film rating so that the rating matches the case per Rules.

I believe if it wasn't meant to be changed to Television NR then there wouldn't be a Television NR as it wouldn't be needed.

From the viewpoint of pure logic, "NR" should refer to BOTH Film and TV, as the releases in question carry a rating of neither system. 

Quoting dee1959jay:

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From the viewpoint of pure logic, "NR" should refer to BOTH Film and TV, as the releases in question carry a rating of neither system. 

Exactly my point. 

BTW I just checked and the TV parental Guidelines officially are
TVY
TVY7
TVY7 FV
TVG
TVPG
TV14
TVMA

There is no NR equivalent in TV formally, yet the vast majority of TV Shows in US carry no rating, like for example I Love Lucy, surely you aren't suggesting that we rate it ourselves, it carries No Rating therefore NR communicates valid information.

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Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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... If it originally aired on TV (TV Series, TV Movies, TV Miniseries) it should use the TV rating.

This is why I was confused. Detonator originally aired on TV and, as such, should use the TV rating.

Ideally invelos, such as it did for NR, should standardize the ratings for TV and Film so that a TV film rated R could be classified correctly.

Until this occurs, I have changed this DVD back to Rating System: Film and Rating: R.

Thank you everyone for your input.

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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Ok, gunnar. I'll bite. The rating, even NR, is a characteristic of Medium.

That's where I disagree. NR means it was not rated. Therefore no rating system was involved. Indicating which system was used to not rate it is meaningless.

If DVD Profiler had been totally logically constructed there should not have been NR in either Film or Television. Instead there should have been three choices under Rating System; Film, Television, Not Rated.

While this would have been logically correct, it would have introduced some other problems. NR existed under Rating when we did not have Rating System. This was logical at the time. Moving NR out of Rating and into Rating System would have caused difficulties when upgrading to the new system. Also, for those localities that only has Film as rating system, having NR as a separate Rating System would have been confusing (even though it would have been logically correct).

So - keeping NR as an option in both Film and Television was most likely a sound decision. That does not, however, change the fact that Not rated means that no rating system was involved.

If I have understood thing correctly, the British "E" (Exempt) rating is different. I believe this means that the BBFC has looked at the title in question and has decided that it does not need a rating. If the same had been true for the US ratings then things would be different. But that's not how it works.