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I never have.  Not once have I looked at a company registry to determine what company to enter.

Thats why there was the Studios topic, and on the big 8 you often don't have to.

As I said, I never used that thread.  While it was linked from the rules, the rules did not state that it's use was mandatory.  In fact, the wording used has never changed and reads the same now as it did when the thread was linked.  As I was never unsure, I never had to ask questions or seek further information in the forums.  Ken was asked to make it mandatory, never did, and that was one of the reasons the thread was abandoned.

In addition, you are mixing studios/production companies with media companies.

For the former, you should always use the actual credits, not the case.  This is what most users seemed to want, and that is another reason we no longer have the studio thread.

For the latter, while I don't like it, anything on the back is fair game.  I don't have the title you mentioned so can't give you specific answers.

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Thats why there was the Studios topic, and on the big 8 you often don't have to. I check/search the correct name when i have many DVD's with the same studio just written differently. I only check Finnish companies from a registry, cause its the fastest way. But not on other countries since i dont know how they operate. An example: Walt Disney (distributor). Cover says Walt Disney and Buena Vista.What to enter? Took me less then 10 seconds to find out that from 04.02.2008 onwards Buena Vista didnt exist cause it had changed its name to Walt Disney link. My point is, registries are very useful in my opinion.

I've never seen the need to consult a 3rd party for such cases. If the cover lists both Walt Disney Home Entertainment and Buena Vista Home Entertainment as media companies, I enter both. If it lists one and not the other, I list that one. Why do you want to make it more complicated than that?

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Funnily the now obsolete Studios topic would have told us the right way. But since it doesnt exist, rules say i should add 20th Century Fox and Svensk Filmindustri. Both are wrong.

Both would be correct for media companies. And the filter will automatically adjust 20th to Twentieth no matter what you enter so there can be no doubt about that.

For finnish releases absolutely NOT, Correct entries would be:

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
FS Film

or maybe

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Svensk Filmindustri
FS Film

but I hate to see this combination used, since the "SF company" in Finland is FS Film Oy.