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Andf years later I still don't understand those that would prefer one giant profile for an entire Season ior Series (US), as opposed to more manageable bites of information per disc,. Why in Gods name would I want 40 Discs worth of cast / crew data for I Love Lucy: The Complete series in ONE profile, I know there are those that like that approach but it is completely irrational to me and always has been , nor do i comprehend what it would do for me to have 40 Discs in one Profile, Plus then duplicating that data data in the children.

Bottom line is my position is precisely where it was Three years ago and i don't see it changing. I have always used Child and grandchild profiles as that is the only thing that makes any sort of sense. I can even figure out what Features are on what disc instead of looking at one mammoth profile and trying to figure what Special Feature goes to what disc.

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I ahte to say it but that just seems bizarre to me. I want to be able to find EASILY which Episode(s) George reeves appeared in. One occurrence tells me NOTHING, except that somewhere he appeared in one or MORE episodes, which ones your method provides NOTHING. I have to wade through a mountain of data to find the data I am after. George as I recall appears only once, but if he appeared more than once, the problem would be compounded many times over, because your way would only give one response. Furthewr using both the mountain and the children seems to me to only inflate the data.

I can for example look up James Frawley and find that he appears in 21 different Profiles for Crew and I can then tell you what shows, Discs and episodes or movies. All you can produce is a based on my data is a lsit of 10 titles, that seems useless to me and from what I can tell the majority of users seem to agree. <scratching head> But different strokes for different folks.

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I am sure I am in the extreme minority.. but personally if I click on Lucy's name I would want to see her name pop up for each episode not per season or per disc. But since that is not possible I will take the next best thing which for me would be per disc.

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Sorry, I should have quoted the full Rule:

"In rare cases where multiple Complete TV Series are packaged together, the Box-set rules can be applied, treating each series like a single film - applying the above rules for it’s individual profile."

So this actually DOES state what should be profiled as a child profile - each series.

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It all depends on what's important to you. For me, when I click on an actor's name, I don't want to see 40 occurrences of I Love Lucy. I want to see one occurrence per season.

If it's not important to know what episode(s) an actor appears in, why do we bother to profile each episode?  Why not just show one long list of all the performers who worked in a given season/series?

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Both your way and my way are contributable so we should both be satisfied.

Except that in the case we're talking about, we cannot have it both ways... 

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I am sure I am in the extreme minority.. but personally if I click on Lucy's name I would want to see her name pop up for each episode not per season or per disc. But since that is not possible I will take the next best thing which for me would be per disc.

Ah. Well, I didn't consider that group of people.    OK, so some of us are happy: the season people and the disc people. Hopefully there will be a friendly way to get per-episode data in the future. In the meantime, you could create non-contributable manual profiles for each episode and attach them as grandchild profiles. 

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Andf years later I still don't understand those that would prefer one giant profile for an entire Season ior Series (US), as opposed to more manageable bites of information per disc,