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I would venture to guess that if I submitted a change to add "Blu ray" to the Edition field, that it would be declined.

How is that any different than this? 

Both are covered by other fields within DVDP, and both are very important when making buying decisions.

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I would venture to guess that if I submitted a change to add "Blu ray" to the Edition field, that it would be declined.

How is that any different than this? 

Both are covered by other fields within DVDP, and both are very important when making buying decisions.

What point are you trying to make?  This has nothing to do with the rules as written.  Read them again.  Blu ray and HDdvd are not DVDs, they are what will ultimately replace DVDs.  If a Blu ray had  one version manufactured in Widescreen and another manufactured in 4:3 then there would be two editions to be differentiated, and according to the rules we would be obliged to list both, wouldn't we?

My point is that "Blu ray" and "HD-DVD" and "DVD" are all different versions of the same release and under the Rules as some wish to interpret them, the fact that those descriptors appear on the DVD box, makes them valid entries for the "Edition" field since they would help "distinguish between different versions".

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I disagree with your logic Hal. DVD, Blu ray & HD-DVD are not editions, they are media types.

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...and ensure it will help distinguish between different releases of the same title.

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Hal,

One important difference is that you can filter out Blu-ray and HD DVD in the "Add DVD" window, but you can't filter our Fullscreen.

Star Wars II (and probably the other films in the series, I haven't checked) was released in both Widescreen and Fullscreen. These have a banner that says "Widescreen" and "Full Screen" respectively. Star Wars I was also relesed in both Widescreen and Fullscreen, but without the banners. So is it your opinion, then, that the two Star Wars II releases are different editions, but the two Star Wars I are not?

But we can dance around and say "why this and why not that" forever, until someone can come up with a definition of "Edition". And I do wish the someone would be Ken. If Ken says "It has to be in a banner" then that's good enough for me. If it must be on the front cover, then he should state that, as well. Then all doubts would be removed and we could all live happily ever after... 

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The point has already been made that the Full Screen Edition DOES have a banner, Therefore, the distinction between the TWO HAS already been made.

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It is my opinion that we should not "make up" editions that do not appear on the actual DVD cover, ever.  The fact that it lists "widescreen" in the special features section does not qualify it as an "Edition" in my book.

If it did then there are a ton of DVDs that need to be updated with "Widescreen".

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I don't know what event you are talking about, Unicus. You weren't involved in the conception process. That was TWO users who I am intimately acquainted with. So you have nothing to remember in that regard.

Wow.  Talk about completely missing the boat. 

Did you even read the post I was responding to?  I was talking about the writting of the rules.  You claim the intent of this rule has always been to take the edition from the front cover.  ya_shin, on the other hand, claims that the rules group "deliberately did not limit this to the front cover."

Same event, two different 'rememberings'.  Do we understand now?