About the age certification thingy...(FSK)

[Mire]

Hi there, i was considering to buy some blus from Germany, but with the new age certification rulez all of the blurays & dvds are now have big ugly green things on it I wonder if they were stickers or something i can remove or does it comes printed on the cover?

[McCrutchy]

These are the new FSK (German film rating/classification board) logos. The green one you are referring to is FSK12 (which means "Not to be admitted/sold to if under 12") and there is a blue logo for FSK16 and a red logo for FSK18 and white for FSK0 or exempt/family releases. My understanding is that these are not stickers but are printed logos.

[Mire]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

These are the new FSK (German film rating/classification board) logos. The green one you are referring to is FSK12 (which means "Not to be admitted/sold to if under 12") and there is a blue logo for FSK16 and a red logo for FSK18 and white for FSK0 or exempt/family releases. My understanding is that these are not stickers but are printed logos.

Damn !! Then i'm not gonna buy anything from Germany, even if they put some very very special editions for anything. Thank you for the answer.

[DH44]

Hi, I imported Besessen (aka- Homecoming) from splendid films staring Mischa Barton and Jessica Stroup to the UK and it has a reversable cover without the large FSK 16 certifacation logo, not sure if all companies do this though.

[andreasy969]

Originally Posted by DH44

Hi, I imported Besessen (aka- Homecoming) from splendid films staring Mischa Barton and Jessica Stroup to the UK and it has a reversable cover without the large FSK 16 certifacation logo, not sure if all companies do this though.

Yes. Some/Most companies offer reversable covers due to heavy protests of German film fans (e.g. by me ). But some studios (especially the big ones ) still refuse to bring reversable covers. Namely Warner, Fox and Disney still don't offer such a thing .

Most (all?) of the other companies have reversable covers for their blu-rays by now (Paramount being the latest to join the club, but only for blu-rays - the Transformers 2 blu-ray was stilll coming without a reversable cover for example). Anyway you got to be careful with the release date and/or production time of each specific disc, since some discs might be available with and without a reversable cover. On the other hand, one can also still find (for example Fox or Warner) discs, that don't carry the new rating logo at all, due to production of the disc before the new logo became obligatory.

[Celerony]

Here in the Netherlands we have the little ''Kijkwijzer'' symbols. (on some BD's you barely even see them)

In Australia they've also such idiot big symbols...
These symbols are so big, that even someone with his eyes stabbed out can easily see them!