Audio Visual/Photography: version 1

Saved 2026-09-09 10:20 by site bot: GPC import 286. Current is v2.

Changes from v1 to current

1	1		# Audio Visual/Photography <!--category-->
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3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Audio Visual/Photography
5	5		gpc_code: 68000000
6	6		gpc_level: segment
7	7		gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
8	8		<!--/identity-->
	9	+
	10	+	## Aliases <!--aliases-->
	11	+	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
	12	+	\| ------------ \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
	13	+	\| Audio Visual \| search \| en \| \| \|
	14	+	\| Photography \| search \| en \| \| \|
	15	+	<!--/aliases-->
	16	+
	17	+	## Meta <!--meta-->
	18	+	title: Audio Visual/Photography (GPC segment 68000000)
	19	+	description: The GS1 Global Product Classification segment for televisions, audio equipment, cameras, in-car electronics and recorded media: five families, 17 classes and 165 bricks in publication 286.
	20	+	<!--/meta-->
	21	+
	22	+	## References <!--references-->
	23	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	24	+	\| --- \| ---------------------------- \| ------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| --------- \| -------- \| --------- \| --------- \| ------- \| ------- \| ----------- \| -------- \|
	25	+	\| gpc \| https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/ \| GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) \| 2026-09-12 \| GS1 \| registry \| \| 68000000 \| Segment \| \| \| \|
	26	+	<!--/references-->
	27	+
	28	+	## About <!--about-->
	29	+	Audio Visual/Photography is one of the top-level segments of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the scheme that gives every brick code used elsewhere on this site its place in a hierarchy of segment, family, class and brick. It covers the equipment for recording and playing sound and pictures, from televisions and home audio to portable players, cameras, lenses and darkroom supplies and the electronics fitted in cars, together with the media that content is sold on.[^gpc] GS1 publishes its "includes" and "excludes" definitions only at brick level, so a segment such as this one carries no definition text of its own; that is why this page describes what the segment contains rather than quoting a definition, as the brick pages beneath it do.[^gpc]
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	31	+	In publication 286 of May 2026 the segment holds five families, seventeen classes and 165 bricks. Audio Visual Equipment is the largest with seven classes and 79 bricks, its biggest classes being Audio Visual Accessories with twenty-one, Home Audio Equipment with eighteen and Portable Audio/Video with sixteen. Photography/Optics follows with four classes and 36 bricks, then Audio Visual Media with two classes and 25, and In-car Electronics with three classes and 24. A fifth family exists only to hold packs mixing the other four.[^gpc]
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	33	+	For a site built on barcodes the Audio Visual Media family matters most, because it is where recorded music and film are classified, and its governing rule is that the medium picks the brick rather than the content. An album pressed on a disc is CD/MD - Pre-recorded (10001459), the same album on vinyl is 10001462, on cassette 10001464, and sold as a download it is Music - Digital (10006239); films divide the same way between DVD (10001460), Blu-ray (10008494) and Movies - Digital (10006241). The definition of the CD brick is correspondingly narrow, explicitly excluding audio books, recordable CDs, CD players, pre-recorded DVDs, cassettes and vinyl, each of which has its own brick elsewhere in the scheme. An audio book on disc is the clearest case: it is brick 10004103 Audio Books, which sits in the Books class of the Textual/Printed/Reference Materials segment (60000000), classified with books rather than with recorded music.[^gpc] The order of those codes also records the order the formats arrived: the original run from 10001459 to 10001466 covers discs, cassettes and vinyl, Dual Discs were added at 10003718, the digital block at 10006239 to 10006245, and Blu-ray last of all at 10008494, which is the highest brick code anywhere in this segment.[^gpc]
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	35	+	Like other long-established segments this one preserves the vocabulary of the period in which it was written, and the obsolete bricks remain live rather than being retired: MiniDisc players and decks, audio and video cassette players, dictation machines, analogue cameras, photographic film, slide projectors and a full class of darkroom equipment covering enlargers, safelights, developing chemicals and drying gear all still classify here.[^gpc] One split across segments is worth knowing before classifying storage, because it separates a medium from the device that reads it: floppy discs are brick 10001456 in this segment's Recordable Media class, while floppy disc drives are 10001132 over in Computing, and memory cards (10001452) and USB flash drives (10006398) likewise sit here rather than with computer hardware.[^gpc]
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	37	+	The numbering follows the pattern used across the scheme, which is worth stating because it invites a wrong guess. Segment, family and class codes are prefixed by the segment, running 68000000, then 68040000, then 68040100, but brick codes are not: all 165 bricks here fall between 10001400 and 10008494, in one flat global sequence shared with every other segment, so a brick code on its own says nothing about which segment classifies it and only the parent chain does. Mixed packs run the full ladder in this segment: a class such as Televisions carries its own variety-pack brick at 10001403, each family has one of its own, a pack spanning families goes to 10003777 at segment level, and a pack whose contents leave the segment altogether belongs to brick 10000624 in the Cross Segment segment.[^gpc]
	38	+	<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# Audio Visual/Photography <!--category-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Audio Visual/Photography
gpc_code: 68000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->