Ok I realise there was a recent discussion in this forum under the "Box Set Rule or Feature Film Rule" thread started by CharlieM. But I was thinking, especially since I am considering a lot of my future purchases will prefer to be combo packs (Blu-ray + DVD + maybe 3D or digital)

As pointed out in above mentioned previous thread (and other threads) with a combo pack - let's take a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack as an example - you can enter and submit it as one main profile listing both discs in the profile OR it is optional you can just have the main media (Blu-ray) in the main profile and add the dvd as a child profile, like we do for boxsets.

So I was wondering. What happens if I buy Combo A and submit it as a single profile with both disc id's and another member has Combo B which they submit as a main profile with the dvd as a child profile. Then sometime later I buy Combo B and go, hold on this is the wrong way and try and submit it as a single profile and the other member buys Combo A and goes hold, the dvd should be a child and submits it.

Depending on the screener, a tug of war could ensure over combo pack profiles in the db.

Don't you think we should maybe get a consensus and perhaps request a rule change so there is only one method to contribute profiles for Combo Packs? Currently I am not advocating either method but I am concerned that my combo packs are going to end up being of different formats  - unless I do the other way locally.

I just feel we need to establish a single method for these babies....

Always put both discs in the main profile.  If someone wants to submit the the 2nd and/or 3rd discs (if it's a 3D pack) as child profiles, with the main profile as the parent profile, that is within the rules.  It is optional to do that, though. So, in your 2nd scenario, you would be correct by the rules if you added the 2nd disc and the other member would not be correct by the rules if he/she tried to submit the profile that takes out the 2nd disc.

Well I see that as more ambiguous then you do. I see the line that says "with all included media types checked", but to me that is referring to the checkboxes on the first part of the General Information.

Also, IMO, I don't like the idea - if you submit the DVD as a child - that you then have the dvd disc id in both the mail profile and the child profile. Kinda goes against what I used to for normal boxsets. Just seems odd.

We also have to worry about discs that contain 3D Blu-ray and discs that contain a digital copy. This means some combo packs could contain 2 blu-ray discs and 2 dvd discs.

Please also remember I am not arguing the existing contribution rules, I am proposing to somehow start a discussion to try and clarify a new set, or better worded set of the rules that relate specifically to combo packs and thus have a section in the rules for combo packs just like there currently are sections for box sets and tv profiles.

Same as tweeter

I am open to discuss this but Martian is right this is not probably the best platform. I am not crazy about having full details in Combo children, cast/
crew for instance. But that is the price. I do want to have access to the data specific to each disc in the combo and that cant be captured in single profile.

Agreed

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Ok, if this is the wrong place to discuss it, then where is the right place?

in the contribution rules committee forum

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Ok, well I am a newbie and don't have access to that. I'm guessing I need to be around 10 years or more and get into a lot more forum fights so I have enough bruises to be accepted

With the way this place works, you'd think that'd be the case, wouldn't ya? You surprisingly enough, just need to request access to it. Ken or Gerri I believe. Good luck trying to track down the absentee parents and get a response to pretty much anything however...