so for instance a normally single movie like Star Trek Into Darkness where there is a blu ray and a dvd, why is it that the dvd tag isn't removed from from the parent and the child is the dvd only and the count as is removed or checked as none?

Now I know everyone is going to say well you can do it locally which I understand, I just want to know the logic behind it, and in the future do not want to contribute something improperly.

what do you mean its optional?

so if im understanding you correctly were not allowed to contribute a profile where as the main profile only has blu ray checked and all the remaining data intact and the child has only dvd checked and the general info SRP, price paid os blank.

is there a legitimit reason for this, it seems like it would give you false data, also what about setting the child and checking none for the collection number, does that make sense?

Quoting Mike:

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is there a legitimit reason for this

From the rules here, bottom of the page:

Sets containing the same film on multiple media types (such as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack) are to be entered as a normal profile for the main media type (Blu-ray in this example), with all included media types checked. A combo which includes HD media (HD-DVD, Blu-ray) as well as DVD should use the details from the HD media in the main profile. However, you may add an additional profile by Disc ID for the DVD content and add this profile to the Box Set contents for the Blu-ray profile.

No, the profile should reflect the main media type, usually HD. This is clearly stated in the rules as quoted above. The DVD details belong to the child profile for those who want it so there is no reason to repeat it again for those that don't want it. Adding it to the parent would just cause confusion as to what data actually belongs to the main media type since there is no way to separate the information in the profile with dividers or such.  Just add it to the child profile, or ignore it, the choice is yours.

"Collection Number" is strictly for sorting. Put in different numbers, then you can click on the "Coll #" column in the Collection List tab (if it's not visible, you can right click in the Collection List area and go to View Columns and tick the Collection Number item in the list to add it.) For instance, you can start with 1 being the first DVD you ever purchased, 2 for the second, 3 for the third, et al. and you would then be able to sort the collection into that order easily.


"Count As" is for giving a count to your DVDs. The total of these is listed just below the All/Owned/Ordered/Wish List/etc tabs as "Total DVDs."  The benefit of this feature is, for instance, assume you have the boxed set Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology. It contains four movies that would be the "child profiles." The problem is, you have 5 entries but there are only 4 movies, so the Total DVDs count would be off. You can go into the main boxed set entry, change Count As to 0 (zero) but leave each of the movies as 1 and it will be subtracted from the count making it more accurate.

Likewise, if you happen to have a single profile with more than one movie on it, you can increase the Count As number.