Quoting skipnet50:

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"What do you do when you discover On Screen rating from the one that appears on the box

Skip

Besides the fact that your sentence makes no sense at all (I'll just assume you meant "... discover the on screen rating differs from...) you're apparently ignoring the rule here which has a 100% clear answer on your question. It says "Use the rating shown on the dvd cover". That means no exceptions, especially not for a different on screen rating.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Apparently R2, from the sound of it suffers from something R1 doesn't, it sounds like they even rate the extra materials.

This is correct, everything on a disc must be rated unless the disc falls under the 'exempt' banner (usually education documentaries*) and, as of a few months ago, commentaries must also be rated.

It used to be up to the distributor to decide whether a commentary was suitable or whether it needed the certification board (BBFC) to check it... they risked a recall if they were wrong but there were a few high profile errors of judgement so now they all need to be checked... another reason low distribution titles may choose to drop commentaries

FWIW with regards to the 'what's on the cover' argument there was a case a while ago where the cover and disc label on a one disc in a 3-disc set declared it PG when it was a 12, and another in the same set a 12 when it was PG. Because the SET was correctly rated as 12 the BBFC weren't worried but when I asked on here whether to use the correct rating for the child discs or the one on the cover/disc label it was overwhelmingly thought to stick with the one on the cover.

If the rating appeared on screen that may be another discussion but in the UK the ratings are never (OK, someone will tell me there is one they know of now!) dispalyed on screen on DVDs, only when shown at the cinema.

* The official definition for exempt material is:

"...if is designed to inform, educate or instruct; is concerned with sport, religion or music; or is a video game.
However, if such a work depicts human sexual activity or gross violence to any significant extent it will need a BBFC classification"

Almost always anything that's been on TV will be classified, it tends to be works that are directly produced for video/DVD under the above banner that get exemptions... and again if a distributor declares a disc exempt and there are complaints they would probably have it withdrawn and be forced to pay for its classification.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Wellet's see in you own inimitable style Unicus and Tim you both totally IGNORED a crucial point in order to to make total fools of yourselves.

"What do you do when you discover On Screen rating from the one that appears on the box." Not at all uncommon. Apparently R2, from the sound of it suffers from something R1 doesn't, it sounds like they even rate the extra materials. In R1 all I have ever seen is "Bonus Materials are not rated" or something similar.

Coingratulations, gents perhjaps one day you will actually read and answer an entire post instead of parsing it and dealing only with what you want to.

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I read the entire post.  What you just wrote has nothing to do with anything.  The rule does not say, "Use the Rating shown on the DVD cover...unless you can prove that it isn't the same as the rating on the screen."  As you so often point out to other people, you are making this far more complicated than it needs to be.  This rule is crystal clear and there is no room for any other interpretatinon...Use the Rating shown on the DVD cover.

I am sorry, but you are the one making a fool of yourself if you believe there is wiggle room here. 

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in R2 they rate the entire DVD set

I think that should be "in R2UK"...
Region 2 covers a lot more than UK, you know, and not all countries do it the same way.

Quoting hydr0x:

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Quoting skipnet50:

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"What do you do when you discover On Screen rating from the one that appears on the box

Skip

Besides the fact that your sentence makes no sense at all (I'll just assume you meant "... discover the on screen rating differs from...) you're apparently ignoring the rule here which has a 100% clear answer on your question. It says "Use the rating shown on the dvd cover". That means no exceptions, especially not for a different on screen rating.

Even with your editing, hydr0x, Skip's paragraph STILL makes no sense:

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"What do you do when you discover [the] on screen rating differs from the one that appears on the box."

There's more than just a word missing.  Unless I remember my English grammar incorrectly, the above is a question, "What do you do when..." not a statement.  And Skip didn't provide any answer to what one SHOULD do when...  The rest of his post is a series of statements about how R2 apparently differs from R1 and that "In R1 all I have ever seen is "Bonus Materials are not rated" or something similar."  I don't see anything in Skip's original statement which includes the crucial point which he claims Unicus and Tim ignored so they could make total fools of themselves. 

I must be a total fool, too, because I fail to see any crucial point in Skip's statement -- unless it's the fact that R2 may be rated differently than R1.  But what does that have to do with answering the question of whether to use the rating on the box or from the film contents?  The rule is clear -- take it from the box.

Duh, that is brilliant Rho. Almost as brilliant as unicus.

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Duh, that is brilliant Rho. Almost as brilliant as unicus.

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O.k., you need to stop.  I have not insulted you...not once.  You are the one who was wrong here.  The rule is clear, which is what I have said, yet you continue.  Either show how I am wrong or knock it off. 

So weird.. the rules are so clear as to what we should do. Problems, however, arise when new ratings are added which are not shown in DVD profiler. But that's an entirely different issue.
Keeping this discussion alive is as pointless as soccer