I don't pay any attention. I plug the UPC in, if there are child profiles I add them. I have never tried to change or manipulate the numbers. All I care about is that the DVDs are listed alphabetically so I can find them.

1 movie=1
1 series=1
4 movies in a box set=4
Star Wars Trilogy w/bonus disc=3
Blade Runner 5-Disc set=1

I don't have the particular box set you refer to for Lethal Weapon, but I assume it's 4 movies with a bonus disc. This would be 4 movies to me not 5.

That's why I have a tag called Movie and is applied to the ones I choose. When I want a count, I just apply the filter.

I just count releases. Each release is one. Boxsets of 10 movies are 1 etc etc. I'm not bothered by the count in the slightest though (and I also don't bother with child profiles). Just personal preference is all it boils down. Illogical or not, that's how I like it and for my profiler, I'm the only one that counts.

The way I see it I am not counting movies... but counting the releases I bought. So for me whether it is a single dvd, a boxset, a TV Season (or series) set... they each get 1 count at the parent level and nothing else gets counted.

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OK. Then you count your titles like I do. IMO that is the correct way to count as well.
Counting fewer is just illogical. And counting more is not very truthful.

I don't have the Lethal Weapon box either. But it's the box with its four child profiles=the four movies. So that would count as five, if you don't set the box itself to count as zero.

I haven't tried those filters or tags. Barely knew they existed.

Wanting to count movies... how would you do something like this...

Horror Classics 100 Movie Pack

Region 1

Released: 4/10/2007

Full Frame 1.33

100 movies on 24 dvds... each disc having between 4 and 6 movies per disc.

the only way you would be able to count movies is if you created a manual profile for each and every movie. which I can see doing... as I did it. but not to count the movies... but to have the correct accurate info for each movie. I still only count that as 1 because it is 1 single purchase I made.

What?!!!  You  haven't creates the 100 manual profiles to share with the community?  I swear, we have a slacker!!

Pete, I would count that as 100 movies. 

I'm just getting around to setting up my numbers the way I really want them.  And it involves a lot of manual profiles.

In my count, each "work" counts as 1.  By "work" I mean a film, a documentary or other program, or a TV series.  So, for example:

Any movie counts as 1.  If it is a BD/DVD combo, that's still a single movie, so it still counts as 1.

A box set of movies counts as 0.  The movies inside each get a number - so that Lethal Weapon set would count as 4.  If the set is of multiple movies on a single disc each movie still counts as 1 - like John Wayne: The Ultimate Collection, which has 25 movies on four discs, the box counts as 0, the discs count as 0, the manual profiles count as 1 each = 25.

A TV series counts as 1.  I have quite a number of complete series, because I have a large anime component to my collection.  Since a lot of anime are released on separate discs, I will have to create manual profiles for each series and nest the discs in them.  I will also be creating manual profiles for my other TV series, such as TOS (3 seasons = 1 show = counts as 1).

Anyway, that's how I'm working on setting my local up.  Ultimately it's personal preference, and how much work one wants to put into it.

I don't know if we are talking about the same things here?

I mean, there are two functions in DVDP that count the titles.
The first thing being the titles. You can either choose to count them or to not count them.
The second is the function for how many you want the program to count a title as. This is only calculated in the software, unfortunately.
First: marked in red
Second: marked in green.
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It seems that some of you think it's wrong to count box sets as more than one?
Why?

To me, this doesn't really matter.
All I'm interested in and which seems as the absolutely most logical decision, is to assign a number to each profile in my collection, so that my online and local collection will look exactly the way it looks in my shelves, in real life. Also, I assign the numbers in the order so as to correspond with how the movies are sorted within each box set.
Secondly, I have the interest to know how many movies, etc, that I own. And to know that, I count my titles like I described in my first post.

I personally use DVD Profiler to count each disc in my collection. I started off like everyone else counting each movie as one. Then when my collection went beyond one bookshelf, I had to come up with another way to store them, without buying more bookshelves (because I don't have the room). This is when I found those dvd cases that would hold 1000 dvd in sleeves. Thus, each sleeve holds 2 dvds and this is why I count each dvd as one. I can look at profiler and find the number of the movie I want to watch and then go to my cases and find it easier then trying to find it on a shelf of hundreds of cases. (I don't keep the cases once they have been added to my collection).