Saying "this DVD has only English subs" when it also has danish, castellano ( ) and german subs is IMHO less wrong than to say that it has anish subs when it actually hasn't.

Profiles are built iteratively.

At first there's the guy who enters the UPC, the basic title, genres and a pre-release cover art. Then when the title is released several people enter the basic stuff like aspect ratio, audio tracks (at least the languages) and disc IDs.

Then come the heavy hitters who either copy cats/crew from another release or enter it manually. They do a full audit. They enter auido tracks as encoded, subtitles and so forth.

When a title is new the profile will always be more spartan than a profile that is several months or years old.

Star Wars is no difference. But you can assume that in a week or so it will be pretty complete.


Statistically speaking there are more people who buy DVDs and Blu-rays to actually watch them than there are who obsess with correct profiles.

Quoting svenlind:

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Info about the film itself and pictures of covers are easily found. An entry in the Invelos database with only an UPC and a coverscan is really not very useful.

a) if that info is so easily found, why don't you use these sources?

b) If you don't have the actual DVD every assumption on audio tracks and subtitles is sketchy at best. Who's to say that these websites got it right?

And when you actually own the title on release date and contribute it, it still takes 5-7 days to make that data available to everyone (the normal contribution process).


Just food for thought.

Quoting svenlind:

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I am not obsessed with correct profiles. I only meant that I often use the Invelos database to make a buying decision. Information about subtitles are very often missing from the sites that sell the DVD's and Blu-rays.

Info about the film itself and pictures of covers are easily found. An entry in the Invelos database with only an UPC and a coverscan is really not very useful.

I regularly contribute future releases, but the information you can get is partial at best, and quite often turns out to be incorrect in respect of technical features.
So Invelos has the policy that for such contributions profiles have bare bones information only. And that may not include subtitles (or not all of them) until the DVD is actually available.

I try to add/correct subtitles to new releases whenever possible.

Warner Home Video (for example) are particularly bad about not listing all of the Subtitles and Audio Track choices on the back cover. Usually they'll only list a few (often incorrectly even then) – yet the disc menu set-up will offer many more choices. That's one studio you can really never guess with, and the audio/subtitles pre-release info almost always turns out to be wrong.