I know that UPC's are supposed to be unique but there seems to be a problem with a movie that I bought at the weekend.

I bought a copy of Lucio Fulci's The House By The Cemetary. When I got home I was going to enter it into DVD Profiler.

However, when I enter the UPC, 5031932000061, it comes up as The Marseilles Connection.

The question here is what I do? I've double and triple checked my UPC so I know it wasn't a case of fat fingers.

Should/can I enter a second movie with the same UPC as the first one?

Thanks in advance, Mike

If the DVD's share the same locality, you should enter your copy by Disc ID.

Quoting SwedishMike:

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Yeah, they're both in the same locality and they are both Region 0. Seems like both of them are coming from some kind of budget publishers too.

So the best thing would be to add the movie by disc id and disregard the UPC?

// Mike

It's the best thing, and the only option. In the (current) DVDP software duplicate UPC/EANs are not allowed.

Hans

Quoting SwedishMike:

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Yeah, I guess that it's not easy to check that the other movie with the same UPC hasn't been entered incorrectly.

I shall go home and enter it using the disc id. Now, where can I find a scanner? 

If there's cover scans on the profile - just have a quick check on the back cover, make sure it does match.
If it doesn't, I'd say try overwriting it with your DVD info.

Unfortunately in this case, the rule is that first in gets priority and uses the UPC, next needs to use the Disc ID.
The existing profile is incomplete, has no release date and an incorrect rating. There are no contribution notes either. However, that is probably not a good enough reason to remove it, and the locality may be correct, although in the past the UK locality was often assigned without thinking. Difficult to say without a look at the back cover.

Hans

Quoting Staid S Barr:

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I just noticed that "your" profile is already in the database, and has been entered by Disc ID. Somebody else must have encountered the same problem.

You can either look it up by entering the profile by Title, or by putting the disc in your computer and search by Disc ID.

Hans,

Many thanks for checking this. I'll check this when I get home tonight. I don't have the disc here so I cannot check right now. I did have a quick look on Saturday when I bought the DVD but couldn't see any covers that matched so I'll see what the disc id brings up.

Cheers, Mike

Why can't Profiler handle dual UPCs? It certainly can do it for locality (I see it quite often with Canada and US).

Is there some programming issue behind it? Is it that hard to fix?

(Sorry if I have asked this before).

Aaaah, okay, gotcha.

It seems like it would make sense to allow dual upcs in the same locality, and when you typed it in, if the UPC is shared, you pick which movie you wanted, even if they were in the same locality.