Quoting Merrik:

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You've got a proper Canadian locality dvd/blu-ray that someone is trying to delete? Is that simply the problem? What dvd/blu-ray is someone trying to delete. We can see if it's a valid request to have it removed or not (because there are a TON of Canadian locality profiles that do NOT need to be in the system... Just because something was bought in Canada doesn't mean it's Canadian locality. I have a bunch in my local and am currently trying to move all of them over to the proper U.S. locality profiles).

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1) Then if you have a packaging with the Canadian rating... do you leave then in the USA?
2) When you purchase a movie in 'bestbuy.ca' (example) which has a rating sticker on the wraper and not printed on the packaging... is it contributed in Canada?
3) If you have a movie bought in the same store but with no Canadian rating at all... is it contributed in Canada? (if not, you won't put the Canadian Price listed? Why would the US wins over this contribution?)..

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Quoting Lostmule:

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Quoting Merrik:

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You've got a proper Canadian locality dvd/blu-ray that someone is trying to delete? Is that simply the problem? What dvd/blu-ray is someone trying to delete. We can see if it's a valid request to have it removed or not (because there are a TON of Canadian locality profiles that do NOT need to be in the system... Just because something was bought in Canada doesn't mean it's Canadian locality. I have a bunch in my local and am currently trying to move all of them over to the proper U.S. locality profiles).

questions:
1) Then if you have a packaging with the Canadian rating... do you leave then in the USA?
2) When you purchase a movie in 'bestbuy.ca' (example) which has a rating sticker on the wraper and not printed on the packaging... is it contributed in Canada?
3) If you have a movie bought in the same store but with no Canadian rating at all... is it contributed in Canada? (if not, you won't put the Canadian Price listed? Why would the US wins over this contribution?)..

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1) It depends on if it's a Canadian locality or U.S. locality. It's not simply as cut and dried as that. Some U.S. locality releases actually DO have a Canadian rating on the back cover. Warner Home Video is infamous for doing this. They release a SINGLE version to the U.S. and Canada and have both the U.S. and Canadian ratings on the back cover (usually they lack the Canadian rating details however). If this is the case, then absolutely yes, the profile should be left alone as a U.S. locality profile. Warner Home Video is a U.S. company, it's distributed from Warner, it should be U.S. (And recently, Buena Vista has actually started to put the Canada (Quebec) rating on their covers as well).

2) I've never run into this because I live in Alberta and not Quebec. I've never made a single purchase in my life that has a rating sticker on the wrapper. Why the rating sticker is on the wrapper is beyond me. I don't live in that locality and haven't had this problem. I would assume (dangerous territory) that the reason the sticker is on the wrapper is because it's actually a regular Canadian or U.S. locality, but to be sold there, it needs the sticker. It's very possible that there's no reason to create a separate Canadian locality profile for a bunch of these situations.

3) No, it's not contributed to Canada. Canada DOES sell U.S. releases. If there's nothing to indicate it's a Canadian release (rating, rating details, Canadian distributors such as Alliance or Maple) it's NOT specifically a Canadian release and should be contributed only to the U.S. locality. If this is the case then the U.S. dollar price is listed, NOT the Canadian dollar price. If it's from the U.S. originally, a U.S. price gets listed. My collection is split pretty evently between U.S. and Canadian prices (with 99% of them having been bought with Canadian dollars no matter what if the U.S. or Canadian price is listed). Just because we live in Canada, doesn't mean every movie you buy should have a Canadian price listed for the profile. And why would the U.S. win out? Because the distribution company is U.S. and they were simply shipped to Canada to be sold here. Still made and distributed in the U.S. by a U.S. company and therefore the original price listed should be U.S.

Does any of this help?

And seriously. GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE!!!!!!!      We can check to see if it's a legitimate contribution!

Quoting Staid S Barr:

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...  The contributed SRP should of course be in the currency of the locality of the DVD, irrespectvie of where I purchased it. ...

Hmmm interesting, accurate and conflicting ;-)

when I look at the SRP down here, it will be in C$ not US$.... how am I suppose to know when one will trump the other! Perhaps I should refrain from contributing and consider augmenting my private database... that way I won't get in the mess it appears I have caused!

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Once you have identified the correct locality (which granted can be difficult enough) the SRP currency should ALWAYS match the locality for the online. I'm surprised that there is no automatic filtering that prevents the wrong SRP currency from being contributed...

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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Quoting KinoNiki:

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Once you have identified the correct locality (which granted can be difficult enough) the SRP currency should ALWAYS match the locality for the online. I'm surprised that there is no automatic filtering that prevents the wrong SRP currency from being contributed...

There is...if you contribute, as an example, a US profile with something other than US Dollars selected, you will get an error message and the contribution won't go through.

Not the same elsewhere though. Loads of UK profiles seem to go through with Euros all the time.

Request to stop the wrong SRP currency from being contributed made here.

Ken apparently doesn't like my suggestions (I've been requesting the incorrect Canadian rating system contained within the program to be fixed for what seems like years now with no luck, and yet I'll see a request for an undo button, and two days later it's done).

I figured if it was as easily accomplished for the U.S. locality as it was, it should've been a snap to implement across ALL localities... guess not, guess the U.S. is special. They're the only locality that won't accept an incorrect SRP. I know Canadian profiles I've downloaded have had every currency from U.S. to the Euro to the Krona to the Rupee... I'm still, after three years of use, contributing to correct incorrect SRP's simply contained within my own local. Wouldn't even want to dare dream how many incorrect ones are actually out there.

And there are also pan-Scandinavian releases.

But generally, some caution is in order before requesting to delete a profile, although the fact that for region 2, UK has been made the default, leads to many wrong entries there.

However, I would request that before requesting to delete a wrong profile, the existing profile is moved and uploaded to the correct locality if it does not already exist there. I have recently seen several attempts where good data would have been lost, where a correction is so easily made.

On the other hand, some countries changed their currency in the recent past, which would require two possibilities, since SRP is fixed on the release date. Just to be difficult.