Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?They're from different boards. The red one is the British Board of Film Certification, the blue is the Film Censor's Office. Not sure why both are still applied, but that's what they are.
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?The latter seem to not like gay films. Anything with gay content they give an upper classifcaiton for some weird reason.(Original post by Gofre)
They're from different boards. The red one is the British Board of Film Certification, the blue is the Film Censor's Office. Not sure why both are still applied, but that's what they are. -
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?They use different criteria, so odds are one puts a larger emphasis of gay themes.(Original post by da_comeback)
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?The blue classification label is from the Irish Film Classification Office and the red stamp (colour dependent on the film rating) is from the British Board of Film Classification. The IFCO has been criticised for being too conservative with its ratings, which may explain why their ratings are often higher than that of the BBFC.
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?Red is the BBFC and the Blue is the Irish one... they are sometimes both printed as it saves having different versions for the same/extremely similar markets.(Original post by da_comeback)
One is a red stamp that says bbfc 15
And the other a blue stamp that says 18 on it.
The latter seem to rate a lot of their films 18 -
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?Thanks. What a bunch of losers.m(Original post by SpicyStrawberry)
The blue classification label is from the Irish Film Classification Office and the red stamp (colour dependent on the film rating) is from the British Board of Film Classification. The IFCO has been criticised for being too conservative with its ratings, which may explain why their ratings are often higher than that of the BBFC. -
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?The same goes with violence- the Brits rate a tv show with bouts of torture that are both very gory and rather easy to copy (they used implements easily available to the viewers) as an 18, and the Irish only gave it a 15.(Original post by rich2606)
I always notice that the Irish board seem to care less about films with lots of swearing in them and more about ones with sex in. -
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Re: Why do DVDs have alternative classifcations on them?That's what I thought.(Original post by TheHansa)
The blue one is Irish.
