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Scans:  Rounded Corners or not...
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorm.cellophane
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And as I noted, McCode in my first comment, while it's not in the Rules for a variety of reasons, some users don't have the skills to knock off the corners, which can sometimes be quite challenging. For aesthetic reasons somewhere in the dark past, it became the standard, not by me I might add. Most of us who do so have been doing it for a very long time. If you don't have the ability to knock off the corners that's fine, likely at some point such a scan will be replaced by a more skillful user.. That is simply the way it is.

Skip

The rules are the standard. Anything else is a preference. The question posed in the beginning of this thread is essentially is it ok to replace a squared-off version with a rounded-corner version. The rules-based answer to that is yes, it's ok.
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And I will vote against such a submission, since the Rules do not specify it and I would consider an inferior copy.

So you rolls your dice and you takes your chances. Or you can accept the Convention that was established long before there were ever Rules, and as I said it was not a convention that i had ANYTHING to do with, though I think the end product is far more pleasing estheticall than the rounded corners.

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If you cannot cite some verbiage in the Rules to support your "no" vote, then it would be a violation of the Rules to vote "no".

Personal preference is not a valid reason for a "no" vote.
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LOL, you do it all the time , hal

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And I will vote against such a submission, since the Rules do not specify it and I would consider an inferior copy.

So you rolls your dice and you takes your chances. Or you can accept the Convention that was established long before there were ever Rules, and as I said it was not a convention that i had ANYTHING to do with, though I think the end product is far more pleasing estheticall than the rounded corners.

Skip

If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.
...James

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LOL, you do it all the time , hal

Skip


And I cite this directly from the Rules, when I do:

"...make sure your new covers are of significantly higher quality than the existing online images"

Altering the image is not the same as determining if the new image is of "significantly higher quality".
Hal
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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.


And it looks like crap.
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Well, technically, going by the rules, as long as everything else is the same, a rounded corner would be a more accurate scan for most covers and would have to be the one to take the vote in those instances.

What I find silly is that you guys are arguing over it. It's kinda like arguing over which looks better, attached or unattached earlobes.

To stop this, some sort of amendment needs to be added to the rules.
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I agree Grendell, and that to me makes it an INFERIOR scan, hal. In otds NOT a SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT, Hal I will say this one time hal, since you seem determined to redo the Rules and cause all the work to have to be REDONE, you have done VERY little the last two years, if you want to upset the apple cart, then you had bettere be prepared to get to work on it. If you aren't and I am trying to be polite here...zip it. I have spent far too much time on this to allow someone, anyone to come in and turn it all upside down, just because he wants to a PITA to me. I am not trying to be argumentative, brag or anything else Hal, perhaps IF you had spent some ACTUAL time on this, you might have some appreciation for my feelings on the matter. Go forward NOT backwards.

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What I have or have not done has absolutely nothing to do with my right to express my opinions on this forum, and your constantly reminding people how much "more" you have done is also irrelevant.

Don't give me the "I'll say this one time" crap, Skip.  You have repeated this "superior" attitude over and over not only directed at me but to just about everyone who has the audacity to disagree with you on this forum or who has the audacity to vote "no" on your contributions.

I'll let my contribution stats speak for themselves, Mr. Blowhard!
Hal
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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.


And it looks like crap.

We don't fix typos in overviews or credits either. Same thing.
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Hal...... you have done VERY little the last two years, if you want to upset the apple cart, then you had bettere be prepared to get to work on it.


I trifle unfair, I feel:

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12 pages here we come....

there should be a rule amendment on this matter - so its in there.
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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.


And it looks like crap.


That is a personal opinion.  Why is it every other part of the DVD has to match exactly, when possible, but scans do not.  Seems like an odd stance to me. 
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We don't fix typos in overviews or credits either. Same thing.


Good point, we accept crap...as long as it's "as credited".....  
Chris
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We don't fix typos in overviews or credits either. Same thing.



It seems clear to me that anything pertaining to the DVD is to represent it exactly as the DVD is. Not to alter it to our personal perferences.

The rules about covers state the following.
"The covers must match the profile exactly, including the UPC and locality."

To me that means that scans must be exact copies of the DVD coverart and if that includes rounded corners than that is how the coverart is and that the scans must match that exactly.

To alter the rounded corners to square corners is an alteration and does not match the cover exactly and is therefore not allowed.
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