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Misspellings in Overviews, a "just so" indication?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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Registered: May 19, 2007
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Feel free to correct any errors you find, you just can't submit the corrections.

If you find an error, verify to see if it also exists on the rear cover. If not, fix and submit.
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Quoting skipnet50:
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Surfeur:

You haven't answered the question what is the On Screen title for the film, that is your answer. Not the cover, not the Menus, the Film.

Skip


You are incredible. I answered this two posts before yours, explaining that your solution is against rules.

Please READ when somebody answers you.


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Quoting skipnet50:
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The standard is the Cover and the disc itself, beyond that anything else is local.
Skip


In this case, the cover and the disc are different.
And your solution is not correct for rules, as the film shows the original title (Someone to watch over me), and rules say:
"If the title appears in multiple languages, use the title that matches the language of the locality and do not include an alternate title ( for instance in another language).

That is just to show that I know rules better than you.

Your extremely rigid principles can't cope with 100% of cases and a minimum of intelligent interpretation (I think that even you can do that) won't be bad.
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Then apply the Original title section of the Rules, Simple procedure, surfeur. Now that section is unclear relative to from where we capture the Foreign title, that being the case I would go with either the menu or the Cover. Personally speaking I would probably tend to capture the data from the Cover for the possible collector value, and this information would also be of value to the entire Community, but I could also see applying the data from the menu, Ideally, it would seem that we have another argument for a third title field to be able to capture  and document both pieces of data, since both of them have a value which is independentt of each other.

Skip
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Billy Video
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Quoting skipnet50:
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Then apply the Original title section of the Rules, Simple procedure, surfeur. Now that section is unclear relative to from where we capture the Foreign title, that being the case I would go with either the menu or the Cover. Personally speaking I would probably tend to capture the data from the Cover for the possible collector value, and this information would also be of value to the entire Community, but I could also see applying the data from the menu, Ideally, it would seem that we have another argument for a third title field to be able to capture  and document both pieces of data, since both of them have a value which is independentt of each other.

Skip

Skip, how does a typo/misspelling of the title on a menu have any value?

There are two real pieces of data here; the title as shown on the box and the original title as shown in the opening credits. Even if the title printed on the box is a misspelling, we would still use it as the title.

Who are you to know better than the DVD production company what the title should be!

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Here's the relevant section of the Rules, surfeur:

"Foreign Films: The Original Title field will contain the original title for the main feature in the country of origin.  i.e. A German DVD release for a film originally produced in the United States would have the German title in the Title field and the English title in the Original Title Field."

As you can see, it tells you to put the film title (assuming it is in the language of country of origin) in the Original Title field, but (PAY ATTENTION SKIP), it does not tell you where to get the "Foreign language" title from.

It does not instruct you to take it from the DVD cover (as I think it should).

Therefore, the title can actually be taken from anywhere (including a menu) and it would not technically be against the Rules.
Hal
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