I almost forgot the most frustrating scenario of when I actually buy a box set that contains multiple formats.  For a 3 movies box set it downloads at least 6 child profiles if not more.  Which I then need to go back and delete at least half of them.

Quoting DieReinkarnation:

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It wants me to download multiple child profiles which increase my movie count.

Just in case you don't know: It is possible to set these profiles to "count as = 0" when editing the personal page of the profile.

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Quoting DieReinkarnation:

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Since when is every movie that has a Bluray and DVD copy in the box a box set?

As CharlieM has pointed out: it isn't, per the rules. If you've come across any like this in the Invelos database, they have been set up wrongly and should have been declined.

Um...that's not what Charlie said.

The way dee1959jay attempted to clarify makes the most sense but is far from the case.  Take the new Aladdin Blu-ray recently released. If you download the child profiles you a child profile for the bluray and a child profile for the dvd.  If you look at the parent profile there no discs listed on the discs tab.  In fact most other section are empty.  There are no Notes or overviews or subtitles not even information about features subtitles and features have since been added).  Those same sections have been filled in on the child profiles though.  I frankly feel lucky the parent entry has the cast listed.

It just seems that many of the people submitting and approving these profiles don't know what a box set its.

My Shrek 3d box set, which is truly a box set containing all 4 movies does not have the first movie as a child profile.  The box is considered the first movie and the other three are child profiles.  There are no other child profiles available.

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A Box Set is when a Box contains more than one movie.

While I personally happen to agree with you on that definition, you should know that DVD Profiler has it's own "language".  This is the place where "box set" doesn't mean "box set".  This is where "title" doesn't always mean "title".  And so on. 

In my opinion, we should use the term "box set" in the traditional sense (as you've defined it).  And I think releases that contain the same item in different formats should be called something else for DVD Profiler purposes.  Some term we invent.  We shouldn't have a term in the rules that has more than one meaning.

My point is, and I've mentioned this elsewhere recently, we end-users have a hard time carrying on an intelligent conversation at times because we've chosen to use ambiguous terms and take existing terms and give them new meaning.  It's difficult having these discussions because some people think a "box set" is one thing and other users think "box set" has a different meaning.  It makes it really difficult to determine at times what the rules are actually telling us.

I think the "rules" need a complete overhaul to remove ambiguity.  Maybe even a glossary.

Getting back to the original problem, downloading the extra profiles should always be optional. Unfortunately, I don't know of an easy solution to your issue.  It seems the method you're using of deleting the profiles you don't want is the best you can do at this point since you either take them all or you take none.  And as has been mentioned, you can adjust the counts so the numbers make sense.

As for "why" we do this?  Some people want to know about those DVDs.  Maybe they're taking a trip and want to know what is available on DVD since the vehicle doesn't play Blu-ray.  Maybe the kids room only have DVD and not Blu-ray, so you might want to just see what's available on DVD.  There are lots of reasons a person might want the Blu-ray and DVD listed.  Perhaps none of those reason apply to your situation.  So you might not want them as part of your collection.  But it's still a useful feature to do things this way in general.