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Miggwilson
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| Registered: March 3, 2000 | | Posts: 34 |
| | Posted: | | | | | Hi. This is a question regarding database integrity. I was using the on-line listing to add to my want list and noticed that some titles have multiple 'upc' listings. While this makes sense for maybe a version that was released in '98 and new one in '00. Or a regular edition and a special edition. Take a look at some of the titles and you've got to wonder if someone mis-typed a upc number, the studio changed it prior to release or something like that. What are your thoughts on this? Is this even a problem or concern? How is it 'cleaned' periodically of incorrect information? Thanks, Matt... |
|  | Ken Cole | | Administrator |
| Registered: October 12, 1999 | | Posts: 2,443 |
| | Posted: | | | | Matt,
Studios (especially Paramount), routinely release DVDs with 2 or more possible UPCs. Presumably, this is due to manufacturing at more than one plant.
- Ken |
| Shark
Junior Member
| Registered: December 30, 1899 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | | User error certainly accounts for part of the problem. Just today, I noticed two new entries that had incorrect UPC codes--someone had added the "7" that precedes the UPC code to the code itself. The titles are Lost Universe 1 and Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 #1. The contributor's link didn't work, or I would have alerted him to this problem before more contributions were made with the same error. |
| Roykirk
Junior Member
| Registered: September 12, 2000 | | Posts: 16 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken,
FYI. Paramount has multiple UPC's because for a while (I'm not sure if they still do) they would release each title in three different forms: Checkpoint, Sensormatic, and Generic. The only difference between all three was the former two contained anti-theft tags inside the keepcase for their respective systems, and the latter had no tags at all.
Hoped this cleared things up.
-Roykirk | | | | My DVD Collection |
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