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Slip Case Change in Case Types
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Quoting m.cellophane:
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There will be some releases (Alien Quad) that will generate some discussion, but overall I like the direction.

Not from me. After the clarification (thanks Ken) I'll simply kep mine locked.
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Quoting Ken Cole:
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First let me apologize for not monitoring this more closely.  I had my nose too close to the coding grindstone and I didn't expect the furor over case type so fast.

I use this forum to gauge user responses to changes and intents before making changes to the rules, so don't interpret anything as a rule here until it's in the rule pages.  Feel free to dispute, argue, post alternatives, etc.

That said, here is another attempt to clarify the slip case usage, as I see it.  The 'Slip Case' case type is to be used for box sets only, and only for box sets which contain more than one physical case within.  Profiles for the child cases should use the case type of the individual contents.

Examples:
- Slip cover over keep case: Keep Case
- Slip cover over multi-disc digipak: Digipak
- Slip cover over multiple individual keep cases: Slip Case for parent, Keep Case for children

The intent of this direction is to require the least changes to existing types, and to accurately reflect the case that holds the discs.

Thank you - this is exactly how I understood your previous clarifications, and it indeed matches how a vast majority of users has been doing things all along (as such, it also matches with all recent polls on the subject). Case closed, I hope...
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Quoting hal9g:
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No easy way to pull that from the db - only sortable fields are normalized.  A slip case checkbox also leaves an unanswered question for me.  What would be the case type for a box set which has mixed content (e.g. some keep cases and an envelope)?


If you make case type optional, for the parent you could leave it blank and just tick the "Slip Case" check box.


Fully agree with that!
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I don't like the idea of a slip case/sleeve tick box, just because it'll be yet another wave of contributions to dig through, and it doesn't offer useful information.  Worse still, it's very common for a DVD to initially be issued in a sleeve or a slip case, and then quietly drop it as the disc moves into catalogue status, but the UPC never changes.  So we have yet another example of trying to recall or establish what the original release was like, as in the SRP changes.  So put me down for a No on that.
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Ken, what happens to the cases that actually ARE boxes?
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Quoting Kevin Coed:
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Ken, what happens to the cases that actually ARE boxes?

I'd say they're now called "slip cases". I gather you see a problem with that? Could you define "boxes" from your question?
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Quoting Kevin Coed:
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Ken, what happens to the cases that actually ARE boxes?


I guess that those will have to renamed to 'custom' (if they're not slip case kind of box)

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As an example, the boxes for King Kong Production Diaries, or the deluxe Scarface are actual boxes with lids.
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