Thursday, September 24, 2015

Tagging DVDs

Email sent June 15, 2015:
Patrick,
Are you the source for tagging questions?  This came up during a Skills Assessment this morning:  When tagging a DVD, which is the correct item type to use—CD/CD ROM or VIDEO?  I’ve heard reasons for both.

Thanks,
 Karen

From Patrick, 6/15/15:
CD/CD ROM

The video designation is technically for VHS tapes, so the express checkouts view them differently when they detect a video tag. It may tell the customer to go to the front desk to checkout, because the machine doesn’t want to demagnetize the item if it is a VHS.

Some of the self checks are set up like this still to send people to the desk for a video, so I would suggest cd/cd rom. We actually had this issue at another location and we couldn’t figfure out why in the heck the machine would not check out certain DVD’s but would check out others.

Finally figured it out.

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