I had asked about this in the old IVS forum: Would it be possible to add an entry to the Edition drop down menu for rental editions? They're quite common in Germany and other European countries, and as I've heard Blockbuster began releasing exclusive rental editions in the US lately as well...

I second that... since a lot of rental/retail DVDs in germany have different EANs/UPCs, it is neccessary to have the possibility to mark them correctly.

After all, it's only about adding 2 new entries to the "edition" pull-down menu... 

I'd love that option, I currently use a website to track what I watch but would love to have the info in DVD Profiler as well!

Yes, at least that's what I mean.  To use the current DVD profiles to track what & when you watch them.  It would also be nice to be able to add the users who you watched them with.

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude or ignorant, but could we please keep the request and discussion about a rented tab out of this thread regarding the addition of a rental edition description to the program?

I feel me request getting sidetracked.... 

I'd favour the edition drop down. A separate checkbox is overkill IMO.

Quoting Repter:

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As the dropdown is just a list of suggestions and everyone can manually enter whatever he wants, it would make more sense to just populate the dropdown with whatever your latest entries were. This would suit everyone and in your case you'd only have to type Rental Version once. Plus, the current list has some dubious entries anyway.

Repter's onto something there!

Quoting Darxon:

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I like that idea, but if you enter the Edition for rental versions as free text, i. e. the users get to choose the name, you'll end up with a lot of different words for the same Edition (hope I make sense...).

First a question: if you would enter the Edition as being a rental version, surely it must be because the box says on the front it's a rental version ? E.g. I have Chronicles of Riddick which mentions in a huge banner 'Rental Version'. That one went into the Edition. I recently bought new (!) a DVD and at home noticed in a small box on the back 'for rental only'. Well, as it is not on the front, I just don't enter an Edition.

Anyway, I see what you mean, but we are then getting into the discussion of when to use the Edition tag and when not. I think a lot of problems would be solved if we just agreed that we only use it when the box mentions the editions. Surely, you then could have 2 DVDs with exactly the same title and no edition, and the only way to tell the difference would be to look at the fine details such as audio tracks, subtitles, cover images, etc... But what's the problem with that ? And isn't there a similar problem with remakes ? I am pretty sure the remakes also don't carry the 'Remake' edition, so if you have both the original and the remake, there is also no way to tell the difference from just the title.
That's why I'm kinda opposed to all this DTS edition BS... Some people insist on putting 'DTS' in the edition even if the cover doesn't mention it. This seams so arbitrary to me as DTS is just an extra audio track and surely there are other differences between the two editions. And maybe for them DTS is important, but for me Dutch subtitles are important, and I don't see myself adding 'Subbed in Dutch' in the Edition if there would be one with and one without...