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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | The BBC pretty much releases its Blu-ray product region free. But, while looking up the Being Human Blu-ray releases to put in my Wish List, I discovered an error in the databse.
The first series (5-0511561-000515) is listed as being region free.
The second series (5-0511561-000706) is listed as being region free.
The box set of the above two ((5-0511561-000713) is listed as being region B.
It is impossible for the box set to contain the individual region free releases and be region B.
How'd this get through the approval process? | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | It not that unusual really. The parent box set has no automatic control over any attached child profile's region in the database. It's not impossible to add "region free" childs to a parent profile that currently has region coding in the database. It's that way with the Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy (025192-049491) right now (box set is "A" and the childs have "No Region Coding") — and there's currently a contribution to correct the error.
The "B" coding in the parent could just be a pre-release entry relic that was never corrected after the set got released. | | | | Corey | | | | Last edited: by Katatonia |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
It's not impossible to add "region free" childs to a parent profile that currently has region coding in the database. Sounds like a programming opportunity to me. It would be great if the program looked at the region coding of the parent and of the child being added and pop up a warning indicating the missmatch. The error could then be corrected before the contribution was done. | | | Mr Video Productions
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MrVideo: Quote:
Sounds like a programming opportunity to me. It would be great if the program looked at the region coding of the parent and of the child being added and pop up a warning indicating the missmatch. The error could then be corrected before the contribution was done. Except that the child isn't really attached to the parent. The unique identifier, either UPC or discID, is all that is stored in the parent profile. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MrVideo: Quote:
Sounds like a programming opportunity to me. It would be great if the program looked at the region coding of the parent and of the child being added and pop up a warning indicating the missmatch. The error could then be corrected before the contribution was done. Don't see how this would work. I have tv series where the individual discs have different region codes so a mismatch with the parent isn't necessarily an error. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's more likely one of the numerous items one would like to be able to check through the Database Query plugin, such as total playing time of parent vs. child profiles. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: May 2, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 490 |
| | Posted: | | | | IMO it shouldn't be allowed for the parent profile to even state a region coding for the child profiles.
Not often but sometimes a set of movies can be both region free and region locked.
Like with e.g. The Mel Brooks Collection (BD). One of the movies there (Young Frankenstein) is region locked to "A", while the other eight discs are region free.
So that means it'd be incorrect to either specify the box as "A" or "No region code" (which currently it's set to).
So I say "no" to region specifications in general for box sets – much like it is wrong to include production companies to a parent profile.
Even if "most" movies in any one box set have the same region code. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 922 |
| | Posted: | | | | IMHO the region should reflect on the minimum for all features in the box - if one out of nine discs is region A and the rest of the box is ABC, the minimum for me to watch all movies would be a region A blu-ray player. | | | 
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| Registered: May 2, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 490 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting SH84: Quote:
IMHO the region should reflect on the minimum for all features in the box - if one out of nine discs is region A and the rest of the box is ABC, the minimum for me to watch all movies would be a region A blu-ray player. Yup, yup. That's kind of what I meant...! That the "minority" rules over the majority because in this case it'd mean just that; what is required to watch all the movies in a set. Personally, with the M.B. Collection I knew on beforehand that Young Frankenstein was region locked, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to own it. Either way, it should still be useful information in general and also it's more correct to state "minimum requirements", such as System requirements for using a specific PC program, etc. But in order to change this, DVDP needs a revision/update. Could be like "Polyregional". LoL. Polly wants a region...  Off-record, region codes should be banned. Would immensely reduce costs as you may need to make your player region free. |
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