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That is an eye-opener; thanks. It's also infuriating. (Aw, I'm not really mad, but figuratively.)
I'm hardly one who knows the ins and outs of DMM, but I was aware of the Double-Zero trick. If a movie doesn't come up in their search box, adding two zeroes in between the prefix of the DVD code and the ending numerical portion sometimes yields access to pages not normally found. In this example, the code is SMD-26, and the end result after this trick would be SMD0026.
As far as I knew, their "Mono" section was their most inclusive one; a title that hasn't been prepared in their more specialized sections would surely pop up under basic Mono.
Yet the SMD-26 popping up under the Mono section (link I provided above) yields far less critical information, at least in regards to the cast.
I only recently learned about how to access these different sections, in fact; at the very top, if you hover your mouse across the first two bars, you get, going horizontally with the first one, "Digital," "Monthly" "PPM," etcetera. Starting with the second row is "Mono," "Rental," etcetera.
Electromog, please tell us how we can wind up on the page you wound up with, while searching for any other title. I clicked on the "Digital" section, and put in all variations - SMD-26, SMD0026, SMD-026, SMD00026 - they all resulted in the page in the "Mono" department.
All right, I realized we also needed to tool around with the dropdown box to the left of the search box.
I went to my own
DMM Site Search Menu Guide page for help.
My default for this has been "DVD," seventeenth from the top.
The default when one clicks on the "Digital" section is
Video (BLACK BLOCK), second from the top.
The setting for the page Electromog pointed to was -Video, third from the top.
Sure enough, when I chose this last setting, and searched for SMD00026, I arrived at the blessed page.
It didn't work with SMD0026 (the usual two zeroes), which stinks, because the basic DVD code is SMD-26, as we can see on the box and on the "normal" DMM page itself. I guess the idea is to make sure there is a total of three zeroes in all cases (in the other case, two zeroes would be added to the usual DVD codes already with a zero, for a total of three).
It also did not matter to click on the "Digital" department. I got to this page from the usual "Mono" section, as long as I chose the third-from-the-top "-Video" setting, from the left-hand-side dropdown box.
Is this the way you conduct your searches, in order to arrive at hidden pages with the extra cast (and possibly other) information,
Electromog, or was this page just an unreliably coincidental lark? Do you recommend always to search with the "-Video" setting, and with three zeroes in place for the DVD code? I'm sure others who rely on DMM for cast and other information, and who come across this page, will be very grateful for your guidance, as well.
Please allow me to thank you in advance, in case you reply.
The reason why this is "infuriating" is that there is no reason for them to pull a fast one like this; I could have saved myself a lot of trouble with my post above where I dug up the reference for only five actresses. I could have come up with
Ino Aika, thus saving
Outdoorlife the trouble, as well. (Not to mention, all of this time while searching in DMM, who knows what other information has been similarly missed. I am going to write a letter to my congressman.)
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