I sort my collection by Production Year, with the oldest first and the newest last. This gives me a sense of a film's or TV show's place within the history of my DVD collection.

I put a collection number on: individual DVDs, box sets where the children are unavailable outside the box set, or on the children (not the set) where the box set contents are available outside the box. I used to count everything, but then (when I hit 500), I chose to measure more realistically, especially when I discovered children for flipper case sets of TV seasons...

How (and perhaps why) do you do your collection numbers and local sorting?

Quoting VibroCount:

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I sort my collection by Production Year, with the oldest first and the newest last. This gives me a sense of a film's or TV show's place within the history of my DVD collection.

I sort by collection number, which I assign based on purchase date. This way, I see my most recent purchases on top when I start the program.

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I put a collection number on: individual DVDs, box sets where the children are unavailable outside the box set, or on the children (not the set) where the box set contents are available outside the box. I used to count everything, but then (when I hit 500), I chose to measure more realistically, especially when I discovered children for flipper case sets of TV seasons...

I put numbers on each feature film and each TV set. So a box set with 5 movies, whether available separately or not, gets 5 numbers on the child profiles but no number on the box. I don't number bonus profiles that I might set up unless I consider them to be a feature film. I used to number everything so that the "My Profiler" section would sort better, but I gave up on that.

The only exceptions to my rule for one number per feature film are those public domain type sets that are crammed full of movies, maybe 3-4 per disc. 1 per box on those.

I sort alphabetically by title because that is how they sit on the shelf.

I assign collection numbers based on purchase date.  For Movie Box Sets, only the child profiles get a number.  For TV Box Sets, only the parent profiles get a number.

Sorted by production year until I find a way to sort them chronologically by director's last name (hint, hint Ken).

Ooops, that would mean I'll have to completely rip apart the Alien Quadrilogy set. 

Collection numbers I really have not found any use for them (yet).

Quoting Kathy:

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I keep my collection sorted by title because my DVDs are organized alphabetically by title.

Ditto. I keep some docs and special interest stuff seperate, but thats it. My TV on DVD has its own shelf space in alphabetical order, but in my profiler movies and TV are mixed.

I have two systems when I purchase a batch, and it all depends on how the receipt is printed.
If it specifically states the titles then they are assign collection numbers in top to bottom order.
If it does not state the titles then they are first in alpha then assigned a collection number.
Collection numbers are only assigned to a movie (regardless if it is a box or not) and the list is sorted the same way.

Personally, I number them in the same order I take them out of the box. Sometimes I'll give preference to a title to be entered last just so it's at the top of my list until the next order arrives

As for what I number, I do it like Unicus: For movie box sets, only the childs, for TV series only the single profile (I don't use childs for TV series).

Quoting Unicus69:

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I sort alphabetically by title because that is how they sit on the shelf.

I assign collection numbers based on purchase date.  For Movie Box Sets, only the child profiles get a number.  For TV Box Sets, only the parent profiles get a number.

Yep, I sort and number the same way. However, I change the sorting often, depending on what I'm doing. Last Edited, Last Watched, Production Year and even Runtime are the most frequently used "variation" sorts besides my standard of Title.