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HD DVD // Blu-Ray cover submissions - when official rules?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantMaverickM
Registered: May 11, 2007
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I'm sorry for opening another thread about this, but I'm really annoyed about this.

When will there be official rules for those cover submissions? Some users think it is OK/preferrable to submit images containing parts of the case, even though current guidelines say cover only.

I contributed about a dozen scans last week to correct some of the hd dvds that had covers showing the case with them, but they were all declined though most of them got only "Yes" or way more "Yes" votes than "No"s.

Will there ever be any official rules for this?
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Ken made a statement a while back that submissions that do nothing but remove the 'case' portion of the image will not be accepted.  They MUST be a significant improvement over what is already there.
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Quoting Unicus69:
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Ken made a statement a while back that submissions that do nothing but remove the 'case' portion of the image will not be accepted.  They MUST be a significant improvement over what is already there.

Right, the below statement is as official as it gets for the time being...

"The existing scans generally do have the banners.  Bottom line is that removal of the banner won't be accepted if there's no other improvement to the scan."
-- Ken Cole

This does not include the whole case, btw, merely the top BD/HD "banner."

Quoting Falcon1:
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I contributed about a dozen scans last week to correct some of the hd dvds that had covers showing the case with them, but they were all declined though most of them got only "Yes" or way more "Yes" votes than "No"s.

That's interesting... must have been for another locality (presumably Germany!), so I guess they screen the covers with the above quote and "standard" built up over the last year in mind.
Erik

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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantMaverickM
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Yeah, all discs were the "german" HD DVD ones. I did not just crop the logo off, but also scanned them at 300dpi and edited them to have a better quality (e.g. for the hard to scan Mission Impossible HD DVDs from the box set).
I just wonder what guidelines this follows, so I can contribute "valid" scans, as the existing ones are mostly of bad quality and with the whole cover scanned, not even the HD banner.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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Registered: May 19, 2007
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Keep in mind that no matter what DPI you have locally, they are effectivly reduced to 100 dpi (500x700 max) when uploaded.  DVDP will by default compress your new covers and uploading them compresses them even more.  I had excellent covers locally that looked like total trash after I submitted them.

Submission Tip - Get your cover looking the best you can at 500x700 max.  Then before pasting it into DVDP, set the compression ratio to 100 (lowest compression, best quality).
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Erik:

If I read this correctly it sounds to me like we have the answer on HD/BD Covers.

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