When editing Blu-ray profiles, would it be possible that people don't put that a disc is Region Free unless they've confirmed it themselves?

Or, could we come up with a list of sites that people can use?

For example, I use blu-ray.com as a guideline when I'm purchasing from the US. People have to put how they verified the region, so I feel safe importing. To date, I haven't had a single problem.

However, recently, I've bought 2 BDs based on the region coding in the Profiler database. In both cases the discs were Region Locked.
This is not necessarily the fault of the contributor. It's probably the site they used to get the information.

I just find our database unreliable for this sort of information; and I'd really like that to NOT be the case.

What does everyone else think?

Quoting Pantheon:

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When editing Blu-ray profiles, would it be possible that people don't put that a disc is Region Free unless they've confirmed it themselves?

I see that as quite mandatory. Go with the BD-Cover[1] and of course the region of the sale. Everything else only when proven.[2]

Now on the matter of reliable sites ... I have mixed feelings about it. I would trust Blue-ray.com for my purposes, but would I trust them enough to put the information in the database?
I'd rather err in the way of entering only one 100% right region, than adding "maybes"

cya, Mithi

[1] Let us keep our fingers crossed that they didn't botched it.

[2] Which is the reason why I didn't change a single BD-Region yet, as I don't have the hardware to check.

Regarding regions, I would also like to propose that a box set parent profile's regions should match the discs in the box.

Quoting KinoNiki:

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Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Regarding regions, I would also like to propose that a box set parent profile's regions should match the discs in the box.

I disagree , it should only match the most restrictive disc(s) in the box.

I could agree to that.  I just think that a box shouldn't be listed as Region 0 when all the discs inside are Region 2 (or whatever region).

Regions are a nightmare. For Blu-Ray, the only valid way to *correctly* determine them is to use a region switching player, then manually switch the regions to A, B, and C, and see what happens.

Discs can display different content for regions A, B, and C, but still play the main content, in which case, you would have all three boxes (A, B, and C) checked. Or, discs can have no code at all that does anything with regions, in which case the disc is *true* region-free, so all three boxes (A, B, and C) would be unchecked.

The Blu-Ray region is a field that is very important to most users (as it will let them know if they can actually play the disc on their equipment), so it *should* have high standards with regard as to how it is entered in DVD Profiler.

Boxes / covers should *not* be used... many boxes specify "A" for example and are actually A, B, and C, or A and B. Entering "A" just because the box says so when the disc is actually A and B is not user friendly or useful.

There should be some way to deal with this implemented by Invelos, such as a system where users can vote or confirm that a specific disc ID plays in their region specified player. (This is currently what blu-ray.com does.)

Of course, this being the DVD Profiler, I fully expect a multi-page thread stating why the above should not be done.

I think the safest option is that all profiles default to their locality region until such time that someone verifies the disc by putting it into a machine (switchable or not).

I've seen many discs with region A on the cover and in Profiler; but they are actually region free/B also. Now, I've gotten that information from blu-ray.com and taken the risk with ordering. But, once the disc has been received and plays in my region locked player, I will submit the change to Profiler.

So, would everyone agree that unless you've personally verified it all Regions should default to their locality specific?
Should we also say that websites, such as blu-ray.com are not a reliable source of verification?

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Discs can display different content for regions A, B, and C, but still play the main content, in which case, you would have all three boxes (A, B, and C) checked. Or, discs can have no code at all that does anything with regions, in which case the disc is *true* region-free, so all three boxes (A, B, and C) would be unchecked.

In both cases the disc will be playable in all regions so I don't see making this explicit distinction terribly important. Have you ever found a true ABC region locked disc btw?

Just my 2p... 100% agree with the original post; I can't be the only one here who 'relies' on data here for buying region free discs (DVD and BD) and feel they should be indicated as locked to their sales region *unless* it's been properly confirmed they are region free/multi-region.

I've observed with BDs it does seem to default to the region of the locality and (asuming my experiences and recollections are correct) people are actually selecting Region Free when often they haven't checked (or been able to check)