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What is the logic behind calling a slip case with one keep case inside it a boxset, when one slip cover with one keep case inside it isn't a boxset?


Who says it can't be? If that single keepcase contains multiple discs/films then it's a box set.

No! Your confusing "profile type" with "case type" again. Yes, if that keepcase has multiple discs, the profile can indeed be set up as a box set. That does not, however, change what's it's packaged in. If it's in a keepcase, than the case type is "keepcase". Nowhere do the rules say: "For box set profiles, use 'box set as case type". Instead the rules just say: "Specify the type of packaging in which the DVD is released." So if that packaging is a keepcase, then that's what you enter.
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What is the logic behind calling a slip case with one keep case inside it a boxset, when one slip cover with one keep case inside it isn't a boxset?


Who says it can't be? If that single keepcase contains multiple discs/films then it's a box set.

No! It's the old "profile type" against "case type" again: if it has multiple discs it's "profile type" may well be a "box set", but it's still packaged in a keep case. Ergo: case type "keep case".


I was unaware he was referring to "casetype". I know it's a stinking keepcase as case type.
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Okay, great, whew... That's one thing cleared up, then.
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What is the logic behind calling a slip case with one keep case inside it a boxset, when one slip cover with one keep case inside it isn't a boxset?

No logic really, just a way Invelos (or IVS) decided to name the case types.

Slip Covers are ignored.
Slip Cases are profiled. What is confusing is the fact is that it's called Box Set, a term which is also used for the way we profile sets with multiple films. Rather unfortunate.
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What is the logic behind calling a slip case with one keep case inside it a boxset, when one slip cover with one keep case inside it isn't a boxset?

No logic really, just a way Invelos (or IVS) decided to name the case types..

Not true! Neither Invelos nor IVS ever decided to name these case types: as I pointed out earlier, the terms "slip case" and "slip cover" neither appear in the rules nor in the software. I agree that the rules do point to a forum-thread, for "further information" and "the opportunity to ask questions" (quoted from the rules), but at no point did Invelos indicate that we are to handle "slip covers" and "slip cases" - whatever the difference may be - differently.

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Slip Covers are ignored.
Slip Cases are profiled.

Well, not by me they're not. And, let me assure you, not by most users. Everybody with an ounce of common sense ignores them both. Most people are perfectly able to ascertain what constitutes a box set or a digipack. Whether the contents of a slipcover/slipcase slide out from the top/bottom or from the side has absolutely nothing to do with that - and thinking that it does is absolutely ridiculous.

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What is confusing is the fact is that it's called Box Set, a term which is also used for the way we profile sets with multiple films. Rather unfortunate.

That it's unfortunate I agree with - the confusion causes a number of users to enter "box set" as case type for any set that contains multiple movies/discs, without looking at what it's actually packaged in. Luckily, in most cases the voting system will deal with this.
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Not true! Neither Invelos nor IVS ever decided to name these case types: as I pointed out earlier, the terms "slip case" and "slip cover" neither appear in the rules nor in the software. I agree that the rules do point to a forum-thread, for "further information" and "the opportunity to ask questions" (quoted from the rules), but at no point did Invelos indicate that we are to handle "slip covers" and "slip cases" - whatever the difference may be - differently.

Of course they didn't name the case types. What they did was adding the case type Slip Case to the list, but name it Box Set.

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Well, not by me they're not.

Sad. But your choice. So actually, your collection does not have any set with the Case Type Box Set, I suppose.

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That it's unfortunate I agree with - the confusion causes a number of users to enter "box set" as case type for any set that contains multiple movies/discs, without looking at what it's actually packaged in. Luckily, in most cases the voting system will deal with this.

You are correct here. Often people blindly choose Box Set, when Clamshell (Universal's The Legacy Collection of classic horror films) or Digipak (Anchor bay's The Complete Musketeers) would be appropriate. Box Set should only be selected when a Slip case is present.
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how can you possibly expect users to understand that "slip covers" and "slip cases" - two definitions that appear neither in the rules, nor in the software, I might add - are to be handled in an entirely different manner? I'm sorry, but this is really beyond me.


Amen!
(I'm still not sure if I'll start using this totally weird 'covers' vs 'cases' rule, rather than just using common sense. Especially since all my current profiles are available online with the common sense rule ).
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Sad. But your choice. So actually, your collection does not have any set with the Case Type Box Set, I suppose.


As stated already in the beginning of this thread, we use Boxset only when it's a slip cover, slip case, cardboard box or whatever, which contains SEPARATELY PACKAGED contents. See the example of The Godfather Collection, which is a 'slip case' that contains not 1 but 4 separate slim digipaks.
I'm sure we even have more 'Boxset' case types than 'Digipaks', since a lot of TV series also have the episode disks packaged separately (Bones, Alias, 4400, etc...).

Again, it's an interpretation that IMHO makes much more sense. If the wrapper is not required to keep everything together: use the case type without the wrapper (since it's still a parent since it contains all disks). If the wrapper IS needed to keep everything together, i.e. all disks have their own cases, the parent has Boxset as casetype (without the wrapper, there is no parent).
I see three reasons why this is better than this slip case vs cover nonsense :
1. A single box within a slip case would never be called a Boxset. It is really ridiculous to give a keepcase that has a slip cover around it (happens quite often) the casetype 'boxset'. It is not a set, and you can throw away the box without it being a loss.
2. There is virtually no difference between a slip case and slip cover. Just because one happens to have the extra opening, doesn't make it signifantly different. And what would you do with Bones, which is a slip case with extra see-through holes, even in the spine...
3. It perfectly covers the children-with-different-casetypes case. It would be a Boxset. With the current rules, it would only be a box set if it has a slip case, but with a slip cover, it would all of a sudden be 'custom' just because the children have a different casetype, otherwise it would have the casetype of the children. Makes no sense.
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Ok, so which is it now ?! A foldout Digipak, which sits in a Slip Case, is that profiled as a Box Set or as a Digipak ?! 
And are we now making a distinction between Slip Cover (2 openings at opposite sides) and Slip Case (only one opening) ?
Some examples:
* X-Files boxes: they are fold-out digipaks with a slip cover (openings at bottom and top). Currently profiled as Digipak. Correct or not ?
* Alien Quadrilogy: digipak-book with a slip case (opening at the side). Currently profiled as Digipak. Correct or not ?

If I understand correctly, X-Files should be Digipak and Alien a Boxset. Simply because one has 2 openings and the other only has 1... Very weird.
Moreover, DVDs that sit in their own Slip Case would still be profiled with the inner case...
How about a single Keepcase that contains 2 movies. That 1 keepcase further sits in a Slip Case. Would that then be a Box Set because it is 2 movies ? While if it would be 1 movie and a bonus disk, it would all of a sudden be a Keep Case ?
*sigh*


If it meets the criteria for a boxset, ie. two or more movies OR a season of TV episodes, then its a box set.  That's what you show in the master profile which is for the outer slipcase/box.  When you do the child profiles for each disc, list digipack because that is what the disc itself is contained by.  Quit trying to invent ways to shoot yourself in the foot.  It simply isn't that hard.
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So two Slip Cases are profiles differently? The shell of one box set (The Godfather, a Slip Case containing several separate digipaks) is different to the shell of another one (Alien Quadrilogy, a Slip Case containing a fold-out digipak)? Where is a "clear cut" common sense in that


It obviously need clarification, requiring a program adjustment. Let's close this thread.
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Box Set should only be selected when a Slip case is present.


So now I have to change all my Disney movies (one disc, one keep case inside a slip case) to the case type box set? That's ridiculous. There is a box, yes, but not a box set. To quote a definition of the word set "a set can be thought of as any collection of distinct objects considered as a whole".

And I don't say this because I'm confused about the two ways the program handles box sets. I am fully aware of the differences.

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Sad. But your choice. So actually, your collection does not have any set with the Case Type Box Set, I suppose.


As stated already in the beginning of this thread, we use Boxset only when it's a slip cover, slip case, cardboard box or whatever, which contains SEPARATELY PACKAGED contents. See the example of The Godfather Collection, which is a 'slip case' that contains not 1 but 4 separate slim digipaks.
I'm sure we even have more 'Boxset' case types than 'Digipaks', since a lot of TV series also have the episode disks packaged separately (Bones, Alias, 4400, etc...).


So, you're trying to tell me that Season 3, for instance, of '24' isn't a box set because it holds the individual discs in a digipack?  That's ludicrous.

I will say it again:  The wording in the program needs to be updated to eliminate this confusion over box sets, else we will keep having this discussion over, and over, and over, and over again -- every time a newbie comes along and gets confused.  Allowing that to continue is simply stupid.
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Box Set should only be selected when a Slip case is present.


So now I have to change all my Disney movies (one disc, one keep case inside a slip case) to the case type box set? That's ridiculous. There is a box, yes, but not a box set. To quote a definition of the word set "a set can be thought of as any collection of distinct objects considered as a whole".

And I don't say this because I'm confused about the two ways the program handles box sets. I am fully aware of the differences.


Those Disney titles, and I have some of them also, are not in 'slip cases' they are in 'slip covers.'  So, no, you don't have to change anything.
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So, you're trying to tell me that Season 3, for instance, of '24' isn't a box set because it holds the individual discs in a digipack?  That's ludicrous.


No, he's not. He's saying that the CASE TYPE isn't a box set.

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Those Disney titles, and I have some of them also, are not in 'slip cases' they are in 'slip covers.'  So, no, you don't have to change anything.


Not in R2 country. In R2 they are Slip cases

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Sad. But your choice. So actually, your collection does not have any set with the Case Type Box Set, I suppose.


As stated already in the beginning of this thread, we use Boxset only when it's a slip cover, slip case, cardboard box or whatever, which contains SEPARATELY PACKAGED contents. See the example of The Godfather Collection, which is a 'slip case' that contains not 1 but 4 separate slim digipaks.
I'm sure we even have more 'Boxset' case types than 'Digipaks', since a lot of TV series also have the episode disks packaged separately (Bones, Alias, 4400, etc...).

Indeed! I probably own over a hundred sets that have "box set" as case type - purely based on the packaging, that is, not just "profile type" box sets. I also own quite a large number of digipaks (I'd say around two hundred) - some in "slip cases", some in "slip covers". All are correctly named "digipak", though, and not just in my local database, but also in the online db. Never before have I encountered someone who proposed to change "digipak" to "box set" based on which way the outer box - whatever you call it - slides off the contents, and I trust I never will.

I totally agree with Repter:
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we use Boxset only when it's a slip cover, slip case, cardboard box or whatever, which contains SEPARATELY PACKAGED contents. See the example of The Godfather Collection, which is a 'slip case' that contains not 1 but 4 separate slim digipaks.
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