Overview

The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) Technical and Operations Committee has developed the following Avails Best Practices to address common use cases.

For a comprehsensive list of Best Practices, see MDDF Best Practices.

MOvies Avails Use Cases

  • Movies-01, Avail movie content for new release and catalog/library with pre-order and rental, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Avail for movie scenario 1 (Excel)
    • Example: Avail for movie scenario 2 (Excel)
  • Movies-02, Indicate price reduction for movie and shared entitlement ID, v1.1, (PDF)
    • Example: Rogue One with DMA_ID (Excel)
    • Example: Stronger with entititlement period (Excel)
    • Example: Fox Avatar price promotions (Excel)
  • Movies-03, Avail movie titles to international partner with subtitles, dubbed audio, and regionalized edits, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Avails with additional subs and dubs against base domestic video (Excel)
    • Example: Avail with regionalized edits (Excel)
  • Movies-04, Avail bundle of movies as merchandising product, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Avail with multi-movie bundle (Excel)
  • Movies-05, Update content identifiers and primary key identifiers, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Avail showing changes to content identifiers over time. Worksheet 1: Initial avail Worksheet 2: Revised avail (Excel)
    • Example: Avail showing additional content version availed alongside original version Worksheet 1: Initial avail Worksheet 2: Revised avail (Excel)

TV Avails UsE Cases

  • TV-01, Avail TV season and episodic content to a partner using EMA Avails 1.7.2, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Next Day Scenario 1 (Excel)
    • Example: Next Day Scenario 2 (Excel)
  • TV-02, Avail TV season & episodes with start time, price adjustment, season-only offer and shared entitlement ID, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Next Day TV Scenario 1 (Excel)
    • Example: Next Day TV Scenario 2 (Excel)
  • TV-03, Avail TV season and episodic internationally for day after US and day after local broadcast, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Next Day TV Scenario 1 (Excel)
    • Example: Next Day TV Scenario 2 (Excel)
  • TV-04, Avail TV season and episodic content with grouping constructs, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: TV Episode as a volume (Excel)
  • TV-05, Update content identifiers and primary key identifiers, v1.0, (PDF)
    • Example: Modified content identifiers with static ALID (Excel)
    • Example: Modified content identifiers with changed ALID [Example deleted]