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Adding movies packaged for Canadian market?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcrwalter2003
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I purchased a bunch of Blu-Rays from iNetVideo.com and most of them have bilingual covers.

How do I add them, as the UPC is different from those made for the U.S. market? I have been searching for hours for images, and am not having much luck at all.

In my search of the FAQs and knowledge base, I did learn that these are for the general Canadian market vs. the Canadian (Quebec), which is a separate choice when choosing the locality when adding the movie.

What's up with that? Do they think of themselves as being a different country from Canada?

The cover is very similar to the U.S. version, but the text is in both English and French. As stated above, the UPC is also different.

TIA,
Charles
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The database of DVDs is user created.

If the profile doesn't exist in our database under the UPC you have, you can add it.  Download the U.S. blu-ray version, then go to the DVD | Change UPC menu option and change the UPC to the one you purchased.

Then to update for Canada:
1) if you have a scanner grab the front/back covers of your BD's and replace the U.S. covers with those.
2) Double check the cast/crew to make sure yours matches the U.S. BD (likely it does but assume nothing).
3) Double check the audio streams/subtitles/features/etc. and make sure they match your disc.
4) If you have a BD drive in your PC you can snag the Disc ID as well.

Then you can submit the Canadian profile.

It sounds like a lot of work but if you can get some lift from an existing profile you are most of the way there.

Hope this helps.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcrwalter2003
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I don't have a scanner, and trying to take a pic is just unacceptable (bad results). 

The rest, well I'll just have to take a little at a time, except the disc id - no pc blu.

You can't get the disc id from a PS3, can you?

I was unaware that you could change the UPC, so that will go a long way to getting me there.

Thank you for your assistance.

Charles
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You can't get the disc id from a PS3, can you?

I doubt it.  I have one but have never tried to connect it to the PC (which has a BD drive).  Disc ID is nice but not critical so long as you have a UPC.
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I was unaware that you could change the UPC, so that will go a long way to getting me there.

It's sometimes called "cloning" a profile. Have a look at the link in my signature for some helpful tips on how best to do that.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcrwalter2003
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What would be a good scanner or mfp to scan the image for the database? Also, what would the resolution need to be for the high-quality image?
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I was unaware that you could change the UPC, so that will go a long way to getting me there.

It's sometimes called "cloning" a profile. Have a look at the link in my signature for some helpful tips on how best to do that.

KM


The cloning link looks like it will be very usefull.

Thank you,
Charles
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Also keep in mind that your local;ity should match where you live . There are TWO different Canadian Localitites. One for English speaking Canada (Canad and one for French-speaking Canada (Canada(quebec)).

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I am quite fond of my Canon Lide 90. I have also never met an HP scanner that I liked, although I am sure there are plenty who would tell you differently.

I prefer to scan at 300 DPI for my own db, but contributed images are automatically scaled down to 120 DPI so anything above that is entirely your own preference.

FYI Canada has two localities, Canada and Canada(Quebec). For Bilingual covers contribute only the English Title/Overview/Rating for a Canada locality profile and only the French for Canada(Quebec). Which locality you choose is entirely up to you, but I assume that English would be your preference.
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Quoting Dr Pavlov:
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Also keep in mind that your local;ity should match where you live . There are TWO different Canadian Localitites. One for English speaking Canada (Canad and one for French-speaking Canada (Canada(quebec)).

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MY locality is the U.S.. The discs, however, are for a different locality - same region.

I had already established that the movies were manufactured for Canada, since the text is in English first, French second. The French title is in brackets, also.
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Hmmm. I guess then you would want to use Canada for English.

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I had already established that the movies were manufactured for Canada, since the text is in English first, French second. The French title is in brackets, also.

I have a few of these from iNet also. I enter them as Canada for the locality.
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