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| Registered: April 1, 2007 |  Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | I recently submitted the Denzel Washington movie Déjà Vu. It had a different cover and different UPC than the one that existed in the database. It had the UPC of 799867-442317, which it wouldn't let me use and kept telling me it was invalid. I had to add the profile using disk ID instead. Just for my own curiosity, why is this UPC invalid? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | The program wouldn't let you use the UPC, or a contribution was declined because of the UPC? | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: April 1, 2007 | | Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't remember if it wouldn't let me use the UPC when I cloned an existing profile or if it let me use it and wouldn't let me submit the profile. Either way, it wouldn't let me submit the profile with that UPC and received a message saying the UPC is invalid, so it never got to the review stage to be declined. I had to change the profile ID to use the disk ID to get it contributed. |
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| Registered: April 1, 2007 | | Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can try it again later if you like and let you know exactly where it happens. Since I used disk ID, won't affect anything in my DB. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 69samael69: Quote:
Just for my own curiosity, why is this UPC invalid? UPCs have a build in checkdigit, to ensure a barcode is read right. 79986744231 7 simply can't be a correct UPC, 79986744231 2 however would be valid. | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: April 1, 2007 | | Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps it's some oddity that was for rental purposes only or out of some DTS box set. I have found others on-line with the same bogus UPC as well, Tamara, Hard Candy, Bloodrayne, Bewitched. All have a 2005-2006 release date. Odd. Oh well, I did notice I need to do a bit of cleanup on this profile as well. Forgot to change the audio tracks from Dolby Digital to DTS...so I'll do that tonight. Thanks again. |
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| Registered: December 27, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,131 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 69samael69: Quote:
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps it's some oddity that was for rental purposes only or out of some DTS box set. I have found others on-line with the same bogus UPC as well, Tamara, Hard Candy, Bloodrayne, Bewitched. All have a 2005-2006 release date. Odd. Oh well, I did notice I need to do a bit of cleanup on this profile as well. Forgot to change the audio tracks from Dolby Digital to DTS...so I'll do that tonight. Thanks again. if there are 5 dvd's with the same UPC from 4 different media distributors (Lionsgate, Buena Vista, Sony, Visual Ent.) I would guess that they might be pirated with custom covers with the same UPC used. I haven't found a single distributor with a UPC starting with 799867 |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,641 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ateo357: Quote:
if there are 5 dvd's with the same UPC from 4 different media distributors (Lionsgate, Buena Vista, Sony, Visual Ent.) I would guess that they might be pirated with custom covers with the same UPC used.
I haven't found a single distributor with a UPC starting with 799867 I do believe you're right. According to the GS1, that UPC prefix belongs to Parrott Productions and is not a valid UPC of one of the major studios. https://dh.gs1us.org/GEPIR/home/GTINSearchhttp://www.eparrott.com/ | | | | Last edited: by rdodolak |
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| Registered: April 1, 2007 | | Posts: 185 |
| | Posted: | | | | After some investigation, I think that's probably the most likely option. Thanks, for having a look. Either way, it is a commercially stamped DVD (So it won't degrade), and the DTS audio track is nice, so I'll keep it. |
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