This really is a personal choice, unless someone is in it to prove they have more than someone else..

With that being said;

I count mine

For Movies, I count one for each movie.  I do not assign collection numbers to the boxset.  For me, counting the boxset is irrelevant.

For TV, I count 1 for each season.  I do not try to collect best of compilations, therefore I am not sure how I would work those. 

That is me.


Charlie

This is how I count mine :

one DVD equals one movie (no importance the number of film they have on it)
For the boxset I count only one films (the film in it doesn't have a number)
Same procedure with the TV set (one season equals one film, anyway I don't use child profile for them)

As you can see nothing really complicated or unusual

Yes I count only the box (because I've bought the boxset and not the four movies)
Same thing for the double features for the same reasons.

Imagine when I've a 50 movies set and I count only the box that makes 50 movies or 12 dvd that aren't count in my collection. Since I give a number for the dvd I've paid in a set.

I don't count my movies in DVDP. I use IMDb's My Movies feature for that. I keep 4 lists: 1 for theatrical films, 1 for direct-to-video titles, 1 for tv movies and 1 for tv series (including mini-series). Much easier than trying to set up some system that works in Profiler.

Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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My count is quite easy:
DVD -> 1 per movie
Box-Sets (movie) -> 1 per movie (as long as they are on separate discs, or at least sides (for "flippers"), 0 for package.
TV-Shows -> 1 per Season box

I don't count any Bonus disc whatsoever, because I'm mainly interested in how many movies I own.

This is how I do it for the most part.  There are a few places I deviate, though.  It's strictly a personal preference and not a recommendation.

1. In cases where the bonus disc is a substantial (yeah, that's a gray area*) documentary that was not originally part of the film I give a collection number and a count.  Examples would be the Bergman Island disc in Seventh Seal, the MGM doc in Wizard of Oz, The American Masters special on Orson Welles & William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane or the 3 hour Blade Runner doc. 

2. I've made additional exceptions to count alternate productions of a story, such as Double Indemnity including a TV remake or Maltese Falcon including multiple versions.  Each gets a collection number and a count.

3. I only have two "complete series" sets:  The Wire and The Shield.  In each instance I count each season as a collection number only and each disc as a count only.  This was cumbersome and I'll revisit it, but that's how it is for now.

Those exceptions are few and I've only counted the ones that I can think of.  I understand there are inconsistencies, but I look at this as a "work in progress" and since all this is strictly local I don't have to fret about contribution wars.   There will always be some inconsistencies, but statistically they begin to wash out.  This program is a great place for me to focus any OCD without disrupting my real life.

As to my online collection (both via browser and MyMovies iPod Touch app)... for film box sets I exclude the box but include the films; I exclude TV season discs and "complete series" boxes but include the seasons.  Things like the docs mentioned in 1. above just don't appear.

* Gray area:  My metric is generally, "is this something that I'd actually sit and watch on its own" combined with "would I recommend this to someone who has not seen the movie?" (for instance my girlfriend's father hates animated movies, but I plan on lending him the doc on "Up" and try to force him to watch the first twenty minutes of the movie

Apologies in advice if this sounds insulting, it's not meant to be, but can I ask why you count? I have zero interest in how many DVDs or films or profiles I have, and I've never understood why this number seem so important. 

Quoting northbloke:

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Apologies in advice if this sounds insulting, it's not meant to be, but can I ask why you count? I have zero interest in how many DVDs or films or profiles I have, and I've never understood why this number seem so important. 

Fair question.  I'm not particularly interested either, but it's a bit of a holdover from when I used to run a retail establishment and had to keep inventory... also the fact that I spend so much friggin' time analyzing numbers and statistics at work that this is just an exercise for me.

My poor, poor right brain is generally dominant and is bored by these things my left brain makes it sit through.  Fortunately, my system didn't take too long to put into play and now that I own a home I have better things to do than fuss with it too much. 

I protest too much!

Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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My count is quite easy:
DVD -> 1 per movie
Box-Sets (movie) -> 1 per movie (as long as they are on separate discs, or at least sides (for "flippers"), 0 for package.
TV-Shows -> 1 per Season box

I don't count any Bonus disc whatsoever, because I'm mainly interested in how many movies I own.

Agreed. Boxset MOVIES do not get counted in the box, the individual films do
OTOH TV Seasons (Box) get counted as one, individual Episodic discs do not