Well we all know it is and sometimes can be disc ID ,, UPC code ,  Rating system will be different ,  front-Rear scans may have a slight different  look to the artwork layout .. 
But when it comes to the DVD  movie itself including its menu and all options 'within' would relate to the edition of the title.. Therefore The Basic Information/ Release Information/ genres/ Video Formats/ Studios/ Production Year / Country of Origin/ Features / Audio / Crew/ Cast / and (possibly) the Overview  and  Eggs if any.  NTSC only  ( PAL excluded form this )

Point is I know that more than half or more of you don't really think or care about the locality in the long run.. as most releases are released in the USA locality when title is first released .. These titles then get major upgrades and updates over the many months and years to follow .. For some of us who pick a re release later and follow the UPC code to include in our Profiler under the proper locality we can in due course find out later that very little upgrades have been addressed to that title .. so if a member with USA locality makes some major changes to crew and cast (with dividers say) .. and that title may get ( if a super popular title ) as many as 50 60  votes in Yes ..
That same title under another locality may get an upgrade in cast dividers and may only receive as little as 2 votes .. and both will be accepted to data and sadly both titles are not  in sync with each other ..

I would really like to see a discussion on why these said titles can't be grandfathered together with the above observations I have quoted ...

YES but if you take the example of LOTR theatrical verses SEE (?)  there will still be two localitys (or more) of said version ..

OK, let me explain what the general idea was years ago.

You have the movie The Incredible Hulk. There's only one cut edition and the credits are always the same.

Now you have a US DVD, a Britisch DVD and a German DVD.

The US DVD is NTSC with a running time of 100 minutes, the european versions are PAL with 96 minutes. Also the Germans screwed up and cropped the aspect ratio from 1.85 to 2.35.

Now you have three different DVD profiles. US-100-1.85, UK-96-1.85 and DE-96-2.35.

But they all link to the same movie profile where the whole community did the credits once and everytime the credits get updated because of a birth year or common name or whatnot, all Hulk profiles get updated simultaneously (I'll never learn to write that word correctly...).


And then you have an animated movie like WALL-E where the end credits change per country because the german voices are listed.

Then you have n>1 profiles for the movie and the German DVD gets assigned the German movie profile and the US DVD gets assigned the US movie profile.

I seem to be having a good fight here with European formats of which North America ( retail )  never buy sell or distribute on this side of the ocean .. Maybe my post should be only about USA  and Canadian .
Both are in NTSC  and both are English/French.

Of course PAL and NTSC  are differant speeds and differant times  and maybe even differant ratios ..

BUT the film it self the actual on screen movie that starts with the company logo and ends with the screen credits .. these are the main areas of my concern ..  When I find a major title in the  database of possibly 30 upc/ean  between locality's and editions there is a major plethora of inconsistancys ..  and 90 % is due to cast and crew .

Quoting widescreenforever:

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You know after reading the eurpean counter attacks I admit I will rescind

This has nothing to do with "european counter attack" just with the subset of data you can put into the (let's call it) basic profile.

There are enough US profiles out there that differ from their Canadian counterparts - even if it's only the additional french subtitle track for the province of Quebec.

If you re-read my post I'm totally with you on the basic movie issue. But audio tracks and unfortunately even aspect ratio is bound to the specific DVD and not the movie.

I don't know if you were there at the time but we even added another locality (Quebec) to the already existing Canada to differentiate between even more releases.

Only thing that would make sense is to bind certain information to the Disc-ID rather than the profile as suggested by SpaceFreakMicha here

Although we than would have to distinguish between a Profile with Disc-ID/Locality and the, let's name them Sub-Profile bound to a Disc-ID.
Seeing how many user already seem to be confused by the fact that profiles can contain Disc-IDs and at the same time have them as primary-key ... that would need some serious contribution-guide-writing.

cya, Mithi

This has been discussed sooooo, many times and the correct forum should be feature request, but let's go again.

IMHO only correct method to do this would be a complete Cast & Crew overhaul where we have two separate fields for both Cast & Crew. The other one would be, let's call it "Original Credits" and those should be shared with all the profiles with same Original title, Production year and Director . Addition to these we should have "Localized Credits" which would be tied to that particular release. This way we could have shared original credits and on top of those add localized credits, for example in animations.

Localized credits could also be used to fix (very rare) variations on "Original Credits" between different releases or cuts.

"Final credits" (which you see when you're not in edit mode" would be parsed from these tables. This way we could have shared credits AND maintain "as created" policy with credits that varies between releases.

This was just very simplified idea how it would work. We still would have to decide how to handle TV-series episodes, etc. etc.