I'd be fine if there were a custom option, to type whatever we wanted in for your local, but you wouldn't be able to contribute it of course.

Quoting iPatsa:

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After all this time it seems wrong to remove Steelbook. It's a popular and well established collector's item. So I voted for both, althoug in reality I would prefer status quo, that is Steelbook and Custom.

Agreed, it would be taking a step backwards IMO

Fr4me gets added but SteelBook get's removed?? 

There are many people who collect Steelbooks who regard other metal cases (like MetalPak etc) as 'inferior' and certainly would not want them in their 'collectables' so I think for them it is important that DVDP identifies Steelbooks as separate items, especially if it's relatively easy to implement as simply an extra option in the case type list.

Even though I am not an avid collector myself I realise it is very important for some users to be able to identify the difference (you only have to visit the Steelbook Collector's forums on somewhere like Blu-ray.com)...
As to not knowing the difference and making it harder, as with any contribution it's not a mandatory detail, and there are plenty of sources online with detailed images if you want to find out (plus you can probably trust it's a Steelbook if advertised as such as otherwise the site advertising will be swamped with collector complaints!)... I confess I'm going to have to look up what a few of the other new case types look like (and am more than willing to; doing Fr4me as I type this!... Update; well that will make contributing agreed on cover images fun ) as I haven't even heard of them until now; this is just the same.

In the same way that to many people it's not important to know if a release has or had a slipcover (and indeed, lots of people just throw them away), to those who collect them and who go as far as buying the slip individually off Ebay or trading forums if it is missing on the release they bought, this info is important and I don't think we would remove that from them in the same way as removing info about Steelbooks from collectors would be wrong.

Quoting bigdaddyhorse:

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it's more worthwhile than keeping HD keepcase/HD slim which is even less difference IMO.

I disagree with that. HD slim (very different from HD large keepcase) is much more important for me than all those metal boxes, that I avoid in my collection as much as possible (generally, I have just to wait a few monthes to avoid those awful metal boxes). So do as you want with metal, but keep useful data, please.

Quoting DoubleDownAgain:

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I'd be fine if there were a custom option, to type whatever we wanted in for your local, but you wouldn't be able to contribute it of course.

This would imho be much better, so people could save all their special wishes and variants in the local db. Like I wish I could specify eg. "Amaray 11mm".

Maybe it is me, because I am already confused about all these case types, but it seems that a lot of people here are talking about "metalpak" and not "metal case". I thought that "metal case" was meant to be anything metal and not another name for a specific type of case ? Or is the poll options meant to read "metalpak" instead of "metal case"? Still confused ? Huh 

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Quoting DoubleDownAgain:

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I don't get it the "Metal Case" votes... why not have both?

For me it is because a double is giving redundant information. A SteelBook is a MetalCase (in the sense of "a case made of metal") just with a trademark.

Actually a Steelbook is made of both metal and plastic. Whereas a Metal Case is just that, a case made of metal.