Quoting bigdaddyhorse:

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Evryone hold hands and sing along!

I think 'Star Wars' and 'I, Robot' are bad examples as both are text based titles.

For the others, using the spine...or credit block if there is no title on the spine...seems to make the most sense to me.

I doubt Ken is going to go back to using the title from the credits as that is the title of the film and doesn't always match the title of the DVD.  And, as we are often reminded, this is DVD Profiler, not Film Profiler.  Because of that, the title field should always represent the DVD title.

Quoting Unicus69:

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I think 'Star Wars' and 'I, Robot' are bad examples as both are text based titles.

For the others, using the spine...or credit block if there is no title on the spine...seems to make the most sense to me.

I doubt Ken is going to go back to using the title from the credits as that is the title of the film and doesn't always match the title of the DVD.  And, as we are often reminded, this is DVD Profiler, not Film Profiler.  Because of that, the title field should always represent the DVD title.

Got to agree, it should come from the cover.

Larry

I've said it many times before, and I'll gladly say it again: I take the "title" from the front cover, and the "original title" from the film's credits.

No "credits block", no "copyright notice", no additional translations that are neither on the cover nor in the credits - I really don't see why we've managed to make this so difficult. The above personal rule is what I have ALWAYS used for my local database, and unless there's a radical change like the addition of a third field, I'll keep doing it this way. I've never ever encountered to need to enter a third title variant somewhere, and I've never ever had a problem with possessives. I do seem to have an extraordinary talent - yes, I'm joking, people! - in that I instinctively know how to handle, say, a 'Batman' or a 'Pi' symbol when I encounter one. It must be that "common sense" I hear so many good things about... 

Anyway, I've got them all safely locked.

Quoting T!M:

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I've said it many times before, and I'll gladly say it again: I take the "title" from the front cover, and the "original title" from the film's credits.

No "credits block", no "copyright notice", no additional translations that are neither on the cover nor in the credits - I really don't see why we've managed to make this so difficult. The above personal rule is what I have ALWAYS used for my local database, and unless there's a radical change like the addition of a third field, I'll keep doing it this way. I've never ever encountered to need to enter a third title variant somewhere, and I've never ever had a problem with possessives. I do seem to have an extraordinary talent - yes, I'm joking, people! - in that I instinctively know how to handle, say, a 'Batman' or a 'Pi' symbol when I encounter one. It must be that "common sense" I hear so many good things about... 

I do not disagree with you.  The problem is, some people either don't share that ability or simply refuse to use it.  Because of that, there needs to be a clarification to the rule.  If there isn't, people will continue to force their interpretation fo the title into the db.

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Anyway, I've got them all safely locked.

As do I.  I had to start doing that back when 'widescreen' became a descriptor. 

I have to agree with taking the title from the front cover and original title from film credits. If you can't figure out a title from front cover go to spine, back cover (credit block) and if at that point you are still stumped then go to the film credits. That is my vote.

And yeah I have to agree about Widescreen as descriptor....fairly useless in this day and age as most films are now available in their original aspect ratio and I doubt we're gonna start saying Fullscreen for every film from the 40's.

I think "front cover" is the easiest and most simple way to do it

Blu-ray, HD-DVD and DVD are the same thing...the former 2 just fit more data. You profile all three virtually the same way. Sports and documentaries can be profiled just like movies...no difference. And when you profile disc id's, audio tracks, srp, release date, cover scans, case type...what are you profiling? A dvd of some sort..either standard or high-definition.