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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | As the production year is currently defined as "year of the original theatrical release" which can only be found by the use of third party databases, I propose that we change the field to "copyright year" as shown at the end of the credits.
In most cases this will be the same value, but will not require checking multiple sources as the current rule does.
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| | Posted: | | | | It would make it a lot easier. But then again, we'd have to alter the year in tons of profiles if that were changed. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
It would make it a lot easier. But then again, we'd have to alter the year in tons of profiles if that were changed. But once done you can't really argue against something at the end of the film itself. I'm for it. Steve |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
It would make it a lot easier. But then again, we'd have to alter the year in tons of profiles if that were changed. I'd guess in most cases they're be the same. Or that's already what's in the database. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
I'd guess in most cases they're be the same. Or that's already what's in the database. Not really. I see the production year vary quite often from the copyright year shown in the film. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | It would certainly make it a lot easier to find! |
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| | Posted: | | | | I would like this | | | | Stuart |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,136 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sounds good to me  | | | Signature? We don't need no stinking... hang on, this has been done... blast [oooh now in Widescreen]
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | It would be certainly better. This way no need for another source than the movie itself. |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like it. | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | if its on the dvd (at the end of the credits) then what is the advantage in us storing it in the profile?
Just because it is easy to find that doesn't mean we should store it.
If the year of original theatrical release is useful information (and the copyright year isn't).. then we shouldn't change one to the other.
Don't get so caught up in thinking of something that's easy to find and then assuming that makes it more useful. | | | | Paul |
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| | Posted: | | | | This would still be incorrect on The Big Sleep.
The so-called "prerelease" version on the latest two-sided DVD was released theatrically in 1945, yet the DVD credits are from the 1946 re-edited version we all know, so the copyright date is 1946 on a 1945 film! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | As long as you can document it, I don't see a problem with that if that's what we end up doing. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
if its on the dvd (at the end of the credits) then what is the advantage in us storing it in the profile? That could be said for all DVDP data: why store if you have on DVD?  | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 742 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
if its on the dvd (at the end of the credits) then what is the advantage in us storing it in the profile? With that question and the ensuing argumentation, you could very well abandon most of the data we store, because it's available on the disc and unnecessary to some. What we've got here - again - is a discrepancy between the name of a field used in the program and the content entered into said field according to the rules. I wouldn't advocate to reassign the content, but to rename the field to actually tell you what you find there. And then introduce another field "Copyright year" if desired by enough and deemed sensible by Ken. IMO, we should try to eliminate the few portions of the program where the data content stored evolved to something different than implied by the field's name. That would actually solve some misunderstandings and make using the program easier - especially for those not frequenting the forums or complete newbies. After all, it's not like we enter the wrong data into the fields by the ton, we've just accepted the name of the field to be a little off... | | | | Lutz |
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