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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | One of my favourite sources for inexpensive DVDs has now gone Blu too. Strangely their covers are still stuck to the DVD format. To inflate the size they place a Blu-Ray banner above the cover (which is default Blu-Ray sized) It looks like this  My question now is: Should I a) Contribute the cover "as is" including the redundant Blu-Ray banner? or b) apply the "sticker and rating-logo" exception to this too and omit the Blu-Ray banner? I'm aware that this is not necessarily only a question of rules, but of personal preferences too. In fact I'm not only hoping for a more or less clear result of the poll, but that Ken is making a clarification. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | We only leave out the blu-ray banner if it's part of the plastic case, not when it's part of the paper cover.
If the built-in blu-ray header appears because of the case type, simply disable it in the cover scan tab. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
We only leave out the blu-ray banner if it's part of the plastic case, not when it's part of the paper cover.
I read this as being something which was stuck on extra - so not part of the original paper cover. So wouldn't that mean it should be excluded? | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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We only leave out the blu-ray banner if it's part of the plastic case, not when it's part of the paper cover.
I read this as being something which was stuck on extra - so not part of the original paper cover. So wouldn't that mean it should be excluded? Maybe my wording was ambiguous.  The cover is one sheet. In fact I wouldn't even have asked the question, if there hadn't been another clarification by Ken which explicitly allowed the contribution of non-existing cover combinations. My initial contribution for this was without the banner, but this could easily be changed. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not very pretty, but with banner.
Because of the case type (Envelope or custom) the built-in banner wouldn't show, so this has also some little positive aspect. | | | | Last edited: by VirusPil |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | OPer the Rules, you scan the cover as you have displayed it here. See Karsten's remark | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | You should scan, and contribute, the paper cover as printed. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 762 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
You should scan, and contribute, the paper cover as printed.  |
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| Registered: May 16, 2010 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 516 |
| | Posted: | | | | I find if it is part of the cover it should be scanned with the Blu-ray above. But important then is, that you choose a case type that will not add above again the automatic Blu-ray banner like HD Keep or HD Slim does. This because it would become too high as the coverscan is DVD format and not Blu-ray and would look awful.
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| Registered: May 2, 2009 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 490 |
| | Posted: | | | | I will just say, that a cover is a cover and a case is a case.
The cover should always be scanned fully and nothing to be omitted.
And the case is to be specified correctly.
If a blu-ray is packaged in a DVD keep case, then the case type is "keep case".
It's not an "HD keep case" just because there's a BD inside.
But if you are talking about HD keep cases/slim cases that have a cover which is larger than the case (weird?), then you should of course still scan the whole (ugly/weird) cover and state the case as it is designed.
I don't think it could be any easier – unless I'm misunderstanding something? |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | OK, I guess the tendency is clear enough. I'll correct accordingly. Thanks to all for the participation. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | For those that like the scan without the banner:
For local you can easily remove the banner from the scan within DVDP and you'll get what you like. |
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