This must be discussed before, but I couldn't find a topic. I couldn't find a clear answer in the rules as well.

I have submitted a change to a box set (The Complete Blackadder, AEN 7-321931-934091). This box can be described as a carton box containing a digipak with discs for all seasons. This digipack folds out like a big '+' shape (not a long big '----' shape or a book type shape)

I was always under the impression that the box set (parent profile) has as case type 'box set' (unless it is a special case like fe. the Alien head for the Alien movies)  and the child profile have the type of box they are in (digipack, keep case etc.)

Am I mistaken? Are the 'No' voters right for saying that the box set profile itself should have as case type 'digipack'? In that case: when is a case type set to 'box set'?

Quoting rvlier:

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I have submitted a change to a box set (The Complete Blackadder, AEN 7-321931-934091). This box can be described as a carton box containing a digipak with discs for all seasons. This digipack folds out like a big '+' shape (not a long big '----' shape or a book type shape)

If the digipaks are slid into, after being folded together, into another box that looks a Slip case as shown in the Pinned: Case Types With Images thread, then the parent profile gets the Case type Box Set. After all, the parent profile refers to the "shell"; which is the Skip case.

Quoting ya_shin:

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If the digipaks are slid into, after being folded together, into another box that looks a Slip case as shown in the Pinned: Case Types With Images thread, then the parent profile gets the Case type Box Set. After all, the parent profile refers to the "shell"; which is the Skip case.

To be honest, that sticky thread does not clearly confirm what you say here. Basically you can have two interpretations:
1. If you consider a digipak-book as being multiple cases, then you could use the "Box Set (Slip Case)" example, and the parent would thus be a Boxset. Note that the example is a box set of keep cases, where everyone agrees that the parent is a Boxset.
2. You can also consider the digipak-book as a single case, then the Slip Case would follow the "Slip Cover (Sleeve)" example which means that you ignore that sleeve and use the type within: Digipak.

I think the second one is the right interpretation. All my boxsets are conform this rule and they were all voted Yes (and this explains the No votes for rvlier).

PS: I am getting increasingly frustrated with the rules not undergoing any clarifications and the forum being the only place to get the right answers, resulting in the same questions repeating over and over . Maybe we need a Wiki for more elaborate rules with many examples.

BTW, is it safe to assume that you also only use the 'box set' case type for box set profiles ? I.e. you cannot have a 'box set' case type without it having child profiles. Conversely having child profiles does NOT mean the profile has 'box set' case type (but that is what you were already saying ).

Quoting Repter:

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BTW, is it safe to assume that you also only use the 'box set' case type for box set profiles ? I.e. you cannot have a 'box set' case type without it having child profiles. Conversely having child profiles does NOT mean the profile has 'box set' case type (but that is what you were already saying ).

No, I don't agree. Sure you can have a set for which 'box set' is the "case type", but doesn't have any child profiles. I have dozens - all TV shows. From the rules on TV-on-DVD: "Individual profiles for each disc may be submitted if desired, but this is not required." I usually don't use child profiles for TV shows, and as such, I have lots of "box sets" without any child profiles - all perfectly within the rules.

Again: don't confuse "profile type" and "case type". While the term "box set" can apply to both, they remain quite different things.

Quoting Repter:

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Edit: now I can see some examples though... E.g. Bones would be a Box Set: it is a box with individual slim keepkases. If you don't add those as children (which I don't either), you effectively have a Box Set case type for a profile without children.

That's what I meant, exactly. The case type of 'Bones' would be "box set", but I wouldn't add any child profiles. It's all quite simple when you realise that "case type" really only reflects the actual packaging, and not the way a profile is set up. I may choose NOT to add child profiles to 'Bones', while someone else might add them. The different ways in which we set up our profile - both allowed by the rules - doesn't change the packaging it comes in.

Quoting Repter:

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And frankly, from your answers, I *still* don't know whether rvlier's case is now a Boxset case type or a Digipak case type, because what he has in his hands has both a box and a digipak-book .

Well, I have it in my hands right now, and if this isn't a clear example of a digipak, I don't know what is...

I understand that you get confused because there's a slipcase/cover around it - but don't nearly ALL digipaks come in some sort of slipcover? Consider this: a single movie, in a single keepcase, with a slipcover around it... Surely you wouldn't use "box set" for that? Then why the confusion when what's inside the slipcover is not a keepcase, but a digipak? It's the same thing, IMHO.

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OK, I think I understand now. So because all seasons are together in one digipack, the parent is this as well. If all seasons where sepearate (either digipack, keepcase, snappers) it is a box set?

Correct!