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rcarlson · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2023, 02:29

Mint marks are tracked on the database because that's part of tracking which discs came from which manufacturing plants, and thereby which facilities were more prone to making bad discs, that kind of thing. It's encyclopedic information about the release, not about your specific copies. Admin (Julien) could tell you more (or correct anything I say that isn't exactly correct). Anyway, those red lines will show up for everyone else who has that title in their collection until somebody reads the little numbers off the disc(s) and puts them in the database, at which point the red lines will go away for everyone. So, missing mint marks are an opportunity to contribute in a small (microscopic, really) way to our collective knowledge of all things LaserDisc, but it doesn't mean that any information is missing about your uncle's collection in particular. You're fine.

EDIT: Also, the red stars just mean that someone made an update to that title's information recently.

My condolences about your uncle.