Okay, it has been discussed before, specifically with "splicing" movie-credits between localities, but it suddenly occured to me what a possible solution could be. In stead of posting this in the Feature Request-forum, I'm posting it here to see if any of you can find any flaws in my logic... Okay, so not "if", but "what" flaws you can find...  )

My suggestion is: Multiple localities for a profile! Confused? Read on...

Here in Denmark, it is not uncommon to find "pan-Scandinavian" releases - that is, releases that are identical in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland). These are typically identifiable with the overview on the back being in all four languages (example). This title is currently in the database four times - once for each locality.

I have previously suggested that we get new localities like "Scandinavian," "European," "Worldwide" and such, but I agree that it would probably take to much work to find out which of these a profile is in.

But what if we had the opportunity to select multiple localities for a profile? Then, when I try to add the title in the example (The Associate), DVDP could then - instead of searching only my own locality - tell me that there is a title with the same EAN in for example the Swedish locality. I could then preview this, find that it is in fact the same DVD, add it and then ADD the Danish locality to the profile (and contribute, of course).

The result of this would be that we suddenly have both Danish and Swedish users working together in getting the profile right - that is one upside I see. Another is less space-requirement for Ken (the online database and covers).

The only potential problem I can see right now is in the overview, as (again, referring to the example cover above) Finnish users might not be to happy with the overview in their language being at the bottom of a "four-language" overview, but that could be solved by introducing language-tags in the overview, like

[dk]Danish overview[/dk]
[n]Norwegian overview[/n]
[sf]Finnish overview[/sf]
(can't do Swedish example here, as the forum interprets it as a strike-through HTML-tag )

and so on. DVDP could then show just the overview for your locality (if present), but should of course show the entire "four-language" overview including language-tags when editing the profile, as I suspect managing this server side would be rather difficult to implement on the database...

This would not only imply to Scandinavian releases, but also to a host of others that are released in multiple localities, without changing EANs or the cover being localized - one example that springs to mind is Hornblower, which I believe has the same EAN and "original" UK-cover all over Europe, not to mention music-DVDs, which tend to be global releases, it seems...

So, is this too far fetched? What have I overlooked?

don't forget different cut to comply with local censorship and rating of the dvd..

we already seen the re-use of disc-id for other titles.

and same ean and disc-id and different releases of the same movie

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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Then, when I try to add the title in the example (The Associate), DVDP could then - instead of searching only my own locality - tell me that there is a title with the same EAN in for example the Swedish locality. I could then preview this, find that it is in fact the same DVD, add it and then ADD the Danish locality to the profile (and contribute, of course).

This is already happening in dvd profiler, this depends on your settings in add by title or ean:
location: any
release: any

True, but I believe that the locality defaults to to your own, but I'm not quite sure about this.

What I was aiming for was DVDP showing you other locality releases when entering EAN/UPCs - and I just noticed that it actually does that! 

But still, a profile can still only contain one locality. Chaning that was kind'a the point of my suggestion...