I know this has been asked before, but I couldn't find that topic to resurrect it, and the discussion in "Rename Name Fields" seems to be heading in this direction, so I thought I'd start a new topic to separate it out.

It has been suggested that instead of having a single profile for each DVD, each with separate cast & crew credits etc. That a core profile is created for each film that would be shared among all DVD profiles for that film. I'm guessing that this profile could contain:

Original Title
CoO
Production Year
Cast & Crew

Obviously the DVD profile would also contain this info if needed in case of any variations, and would override/supplement the info in the core profile.

Pluses:
Updates and corrections to cast & crew would affect a lot more DVDs and most likely create a more accurate database.
New DVD releases for old titles would be easier to create as a lot of the info is already there.

Minuses:
Regional variations could make things complicated.
You'd have two profiles to download/maintain not just one. If you make any adjustments - how do you decide which one to change?
Bad submissions will cause a lot more damage than they do currently.

I hope I've described the idea properly - this isn't my idea (although I quite like it) and don't want to misrepresent it.

Edit: removed Studios, mdnitoil is right - too many variations. But added Original Title cos I've just thought of it!

Quoting northbloke:

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It has been suggested that instead of having a single profile for each DVD, each with separate cast & crew credits etc. That a core profile is created for each film that would be shared among all DVD profiles for that film. I'm guessing that this profile could contain:

Original Title
CoO
Production Year
Cast & Crew

Obviously the DVD profile would also contain this info if needed in case of any variations, and would override/supplement the info in the core profile.

I'd love that 

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You'd have two profiles to download/maintain not just one. If you make any adjustments - how do you decide which one to change?

Each to its own. If you change, say, an actor in the override layer, then the contribution should only affect the supplemental profile.

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Bad submissions will cause a lot more damage than they do currently.

But more eyes would check them.

If distributor is moved to its own field, as has also been suggested a number of times, then studios coudl be part of the film profile.  I would be great to have correcxtions on one release of a movie propagate on all releases/regions.

This could be really good IMHO.

Add my vote

Quoting northbloke:

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Regional variations could make things complicated.

This could get very messy, especially for animated features with localized cast

Also, it would be more difficult for the casual user to make new profiles. You will have to search through an online db (most likely after an original title that is unknown to you. Like the original title for Seven Samurai or something) before you can connect the movie profile to the dvd profile

I'm not against the idea, but I'm not very enthusiastic about it either

Add my vote

i'd have to shoot this one down... this is dvd profiler, not movie profiler... and what this is getting out makes everything more complicated, which will detract from value.