| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ninehours: Quote:
The problem is the UPC code is not reliable source for "Region" in Profiler, if you take this as an example THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut (7321900111621)
this is a UK region profile but the issuing country for the UPC is Sweden Agreed; in fact a swift browse shows that Warner Home Video seem to make almost all their UK locality discs in Sweden - they presumably have a large pressing and distribution plant there. Whilst the present system isn't perfect, in that it is sometimes hard to determine locality without recourse to discussion, judging by the database at present I think the problem is miniscule comapred to trying to find a 'new' way of defining it and all the trouble that would cause. Eg. if we went by EAN/UPC we would have masses more "these 4 releases all have the same EAN" problems. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Could this be a combined German-Swiss (and perhaps Austrian) release?
We have a similar phenomenon over here with Benelux releases which can go in both the Netherlands and the Belgium locality. They always have a Dutch rating, as Belgium does not have a DVD rating system of its own.
I don't know if there is a Swiss rating system (or an Austrian one) - in any case, the fact that there is a German rating on the cover should make Germany a safe bet for locality, as the German rating tells you this release was at least ALSO intended for the German market. |
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