Just wondering, if these could be accumulative changes? Changing the ratings now to the present classification would make all the DVDs released up until 2001 have "wrong" ratings on them.

My take on this is that DVDs are a product of their time, and in my opinion then-current ratings should be part of the documentation in the profile in DVDP. The rating is not a feature inherent in the movie, it is just a stamp on the back of the product, and in that sense it should be preserved in the profile just as the overview.

But first things first. I agree that the rating classification in DVDP should be renewed. It would also be nice to have the "Rating"-dropdown-menu changed to set of ticks, where we would initially select the rating from the DVD cover, and in rare (old) cases where it is different to the current classification, we would also select the current rating class corresponding to (or best equivalent to) the one on the cover.

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Also add Adult to the list, porn is K18 rated, as are many non porn movies. As opposed to the British system that has an 18 and R18(?) rating, to distinguish porn from the rest.

Also within the new system, isnt there anymore "all ages" movies?

You still get porn with the 18 rating, just not hard core. Unless of course it's artistically justifed as in films such as 9 Songs.

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Quoting Lithurge:

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You still get porn with the 18 rating, just not hard core. Unless of course it's artistically justifed as in films such as 9 Songs.

If it's artistically justified it's not porn... 

You should go and work at the BBFC 

I agree with Jykke that Finnish ratings needs to be updated.

But is the number of ratings still limited to 7 like in DVDP 2.x product???
If is then that new 13 rating is quite difficult to add.

Here is current ratings in DVDP 3.0 for USA compared to Finnish:

USA    =>    Finland
G      =>      S/T
PG    =>    K7
PG-13  =>  K11
R      =>    K15
NC-17  =>  K18
Adult  =>    Adult
NR      =>    NR

That S/T should be changed to 3. I have asked this many times in DVDP 2.x, maybe now.

Even we don't have NR rating in finland it's good to keep because e.g. some music dvds doesn't have finnish covers so they basically are not rated.

Adult rating doesn't exist is finland. Porn movies, soft or hard ones, are K18. Really soft ones are K15. So adult rating is not needed.

If it is possible add one more (total 8) rating between K11 and K15 then is great thing and should be done.
But if ratings are limited to 7, then I don't know what would be the best way to do this change.

Maybe we could do it like this:

Current  => NEW
S/T    =>      3
K7      =>      7
K11    =>      11
K15    =>      13
K18    =>      15
Adult  =>    18
NR    =>      NR

But this will cause lots of corrections to profiles and ratings isn't exactly matching e.g. USA ratings anymore.

At the end, if number of ratings is limited 7, my suggestion is that current S/T will be changed to 3 and current K11 is changed to 11/13 and remove 'K' from all others.

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But this will cause lots of corrections to profiles and ratings isn't exactly matching e.g. USA ratings anymore.

And this could also make troubles in the parental control system.

I prefer that the rating in DVDP match with the official rating symbols: 3, 7, 11, 13, 15 and 18.








Everybody (in Finland) knows eg. that "11" means "Kielletty alle 11-vuotiailta". For a person not speaking Finnish, letter K means nothing.

So, if more than 7 ratings are supported then it would be:
3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18 and NR together with "Adult" if that is needed for parental control to work.

Any objections?

No objections.

JaLe IF only 7 are allowed, then i would say drop the NR, actually i would say drop it anyway.

Using 18 instead of NR, on a non rated 18 movie is more accurate. If we cant get 18-NR and 3-NR then its not useful.