| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
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I kept the shrinkwrap UPC and that is the number I changed it to.
Well ... who knows ... maybe the sticker wasn't on the shrinkwrap but indeed sticked to the backcover so you scan it this way and submit it?  It was definitely on the shrinkwrap. After removing the shrinkwrap, I used scissors to cut away the excess plastic and put the UPC inside the case. | | | Mr Video Productions
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
It's not the Production companies doing it, it's the retailers. As TheMadMartian stated, Target, Bestbuy and WalMart often add items to Studio releases to make them Exclusive to the retailer. The Target edition of "Little Fockers" comes to mind. Target added a Magnetic Picture Frame to the studio release of the film and had their own slip cover printed with a different UPC than the UPC on the Blu-ray cover art. I've seen other Target Exclusive releases where they print a new insert identical to the rear cover art with a different UPC. And then there is the cheap route where they just slap a different UPC label on the shrink wrap covering the original UPC. In the last case I cut out the UPC label on the shrink wrap and temporarily affixed it to the rear cover art over the original UPC and scanned it. I've only had to do this once though and I can't recall off the top of my head what title it was. In this particular case, 20th Century Fox, the production company, was also the seller of this release. You could only get it by preordering it on their website. The preorder info was them taken to ComicCon, where the bonus item was picked up. In the case of retailers having special releases, those need to be tracked as well. In the DVDP database one should be able to enter that UPC and list the bonus content. Why are so many against tracking the UPCs of these special releases? | | | Mr Video Productions
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Thankfully all my exclusives have their own UPC.
Maybe you need to somehow impose that exclusive UPC on your scan, like put the new UPC box back over the underneath common UPC before scanning. If it was just a sticker and you kept it, put it where it was and scan. One can scan the artwork, at a higher scan than what is in the database, and scan the UPC separately. Then, within Photoshop, or gimp, or whatever, paste the new UPC over the old UPC, resulting in a cleaner combo image. | | | Mr Video Productions
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