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Warehouse 13 genres, missing Television.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting samuelrichardscott:
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At least with television and animation, it is obvious which ones fall into the category, but who decides what is a 'classic'?


me (for my profiles).

I know what marking a film as a classic genre means to me
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Quoting samuelrichardscott:
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Television isn't a genre.


Tell that to stores like Best Buy that sort by genre...and they separate out Television for example.

The problem is genre is EXTREMELY subjective in not only how a film should be classified, but also by what different people consider a genre. 

I personally do not see Television as a genre, but some do.  I use tags like you suggested to separate TV, but some prefer the genre. 

You will always find profiles that have genre selections you do not agree with.  Since the element is so subjective there will always be someone that disagrees
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Quoting DJ Doena:
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unfortunately the TV genre is the only way to keep movies and TV shows apart.

Not anymore assuming people properly use the rating system (most notably being sure to mark Television NR where applicable.)
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Since there is no way to filter/sort on the rating systems... and the fact that only (I believe) Region 1 has a separate rating system for TV Series... it really don't help to keep them apart.
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Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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Since there is no way to filter/sort on the rating systems... and the fact that only (I believe) Region 1 has a separate rating system for TV Series... it really don't help to keep them apart.


This is correct.  I've bought a ton of television series from the UK, which only has the one rating system, so the genre for Television is the only way to currently to signify them as such in the database.  I, and others, have asked for the a separate field to note the type of production (Film/Television/Live Performance/Shorts/etc.) in the Feature Request section in the past, so hopefully it comes through on a future release.  Another field for Live-Action/Animation/Anime would also allow us to lose the latter two from the genre field.
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