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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | My Alien Quadrilogy box is a Digipak Book which then sits in a box set sleeve. Is this then a Digipak or Box Set ? The online profile says Box Set, but somehow I suspect this is incorrect. Is it safe to assume you only use Box Set when it's a cardboard sleeve that contains separate boxes itself (typically keep cases) ? |
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| Kevin | Registered March 22, 2001 |
Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 609 |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | The slipcase itself (the parent profile) should be classed as a box set because that's all it is. The child profiles should all have digipak as their packaging. Although if I'm wrong, I'm sure we'll hear about it very quickly... To be honest it's one of those grey areas where neither option is completely wrong. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,635 |
| Posted: | | | | This is why "Boxset" as a case type needs to go away.
It is a slipcase, whether it contains keepcases or digipaks! | | | Hal |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote: This is why "Boxset" as a case type needs to go away.
It is a slipcase, whether it contains keepcases or digipaks! It would certainly help explain things to new users, even if it was just renamed to "slipcase". It can be very confusing having two "boxset" options in a profile. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 291 |
| Posted: | | | | i saw this too, shook my head, and locked my profile. there's a bit of confusion about when "boxset" constitutes the packaging and when it designates the type of release. imho the quadrilogy is digipak; furthering mho, boxset or slipcases should be used only for sets that have multiple keep cases, slim or fat, within them. i'm ducking now. krik | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Stone him! Stone him! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 951 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote: This is why "Boxset" as a case type needs to go away.
It is a slipcase, whether it contains keepcases or digipaks! Like Hal says the parent is a slipcase but, for DVD Profiler purposes we use "Boxset". The children for this set would be Digipak. | | | Are you local? This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 291 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote: Stone him! Stone him!
gather more, cuz i just disagree with the post between me and thee. i agree that this sucker is a boxset as a collection of films in one set, but i still think the packaging is simpliy digipak, because the children are all part of the parent and cannot be digipak in this instance until the parent is as well...... shields up! krik | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 951 |
| Posted: | | | | What would you do if the slipcase housed mixed packaging such as digipacks and envelope. Not all sets have all the discs packaged the same way. | | | Are you local? This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 742 |
| Posted: | | | | According to the Case type thread, it's a digipack if I'm not completely mistaken.
AFAIK, we only use the case type "Box Set" for slipcovers that contain seperate keep cases. Everything else is something different.
BTW, most digipacks do have an outer sleeve cover, it just wouldnt do to have it flop open all the time.... | | | Lutz |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 291 |
| Posted: | | | | exactly... trace, i'd shoot myself...no really, then i'd designate one from the other, but i think in the case (alien quad) it's simply a digipak with a case to keep it from flopping open as Lutz said. now, gotta catch the bus and head to the homested. good evening all. krik | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 951 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Darxon: Quote: According to the Case type thread, it's a digipack if I'm not completely mistaken.
AFAIK, we only use the case type "Box Set" for slipcovers that contain seperate keep cases. Everything else is something different.
BTW, most digipacks do have an outer sleeve cover, it just wouldnt do to have it flop open all the time.... But, we are talking about the parent profile. Not the individual discs contained in the parent. The children for the Alien Quadrilogy currently are setup as digipaks. We have been using Box Set for quite sometime for the parent, just look at the Godfather Collection and Ultimate Superman Collection. Both of which use Box Set for the parent yet Digipak for the children. Not all discs using digipak use slipcases examples would be the Universal Ultimate and Sex and the City. | | | Are you local? This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 467 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Repter: Quote: My Alien Quadrilogy box is a Digipak Book which then sits in a box set sleeve. Is this then a Digipak or Box Set ? The online profile says Box Set, but somehow I suspect this is incorrect. Is it safe to assume you only use Box Set when it's a cardboard sleeve that contains separate boxes itself (typically keep cases) ? I know, I tried to change mine here in Norway to Box Set and got many NO votes. I see it as a box set, but others dissagree and sees it as Digipack. So I have locked my profile localy. Sorry my mistake. That was on the other site IVS. It is now a boxset in the online Db. | | | Last edited: by pompel9 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,694 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Krikarian: Quote: i saw this too, shook my head, and locked my profile.
there's a bit of confusion about when "boxset" constitutes the packaging and when it designates the type of release. imho the quadrilogy is digipak; furthering mho, boxset or slipcases should be used only for sets that have multiple keep cases, slim or fat, within them.
i'm ducking now.
krik Come on, Krik. You know boxset as a case type is bogus, we've had this discussion several times. We even had a concensus of sorts under 2.5 to call it a slipcase. Boxset refers to the content, not the container. | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Make America Great Again! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote: This is why "Boxset" as a case type needs to go away.
It is a slipcase, whether it contains keepcases or digipaks! God speaks. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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