"Reset" Blu-ray menu - LOST Season 5

[Alpha]

So I've basically been trying to find a way to do this for a few days now with no luck. On the LOST Season 5 set, there's a bonus disc (Disc 5). When you first insert the disc, you get this menu:

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Now if you go to Bonus Features, you'll arrive at this menu:

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If you try to select any of those options, the menu effect kicks in. You hear a bomb go off, and the menu turns to this:

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This is where it stays. How (assuming there's a way) do I get back to the original menu(s)? I make sure my players don't save my progress on movies (never liked that ability), SeasonPlay is off, and to my knowledge, there's absolutely nothing else that can interfere. I did this menu effect on my first player thinking that the change is probably saved on the disc, but then I popped it into my second player and the original menus were there without any effect, so obviously nothing is saved on the disc. If it's on the player, where can I find (and possibly delete) what's being saved? I would assume resetting my players to their factory settings might work, but I don't want to go through that process. Besides that option, is there any other way? I've tried ejecting the disc while it's playing, I've tried powering off the player while it's playing...everything.

I figured I'd turn here for help (somewhat of a lurker of this board). Any help is appreciated!

[blu_sharpy]

On that last shot it says Main Menu. Why not just click on that?

[Alpha]

Looks like I should've used the picture where it actually says "Play All" and the other options (like the first pic), but basically...after the effect, the menu for that disc stays white with the splashed titles. The picture I used was really just to show the effect. If you hit "Main Menu", you go to the Main Menu...just not what you see in the first picture. Same options and all, but on the new white backing with splashed titles.

[WMAangel]

Originally Posted by Alpha

I did this menu effect on my first player thinking that the change is probably saved on the disc, but then I popped it into my second player and the original menus were there without any effect, so obviously nothing is saved on the disc.

FYI, factory pressed store-bought Blu-ray Discs are a read only format...there is no "recordable" space on the disc to "save" any information...

[SquidPuppet]

I'd like to know as well.

[neo_reloaded]

It's saved on the storage of the Blu-ray player in some way, and not in the normally-accessible file section where BD-Live downloads and such go. On a PC, I'd enable "View Hidden Files And Folders" and go snooping, but I doubt such a thing exists for a BD Player. Most likely the only thing to do is completely erase the storage of your BD player with some kind of factory reset.

[Alpha]

I've tried erasing the whole BD Utility folder, but it stays the same.

[neo_reloaded]

Originally Posted by Alpha

I've tried erasing the whole BD Utility folder, but it stays the same.

Well that's what I'm saying, it doesn't appear to go where normal files go. There is clearly at least one other location for saved information as all the Java settings and resume-playback information, etc. must go SOMEWHERE, but this other location is hidden.

The only way around this is most likely to do a full factory reset. I don't know if other players support this kind of operation, but I know on my PS3 I could always choose to format the hard drive and really restart everything. But I don't intend to test that out considering all the stuff I have saved on my PS3.

[Alpha]

I got it.

I actually made a mistake in my last post. I didn't delete the entire folder, just the LOST file in it. You have to delete the ENTIRE folder. Pop in Disc 5, and it's back to the original menu! If you've used BD Live for any other movies, you'll have to sarcrafice getting rid of those saved files, but usually, the files in there are auto-saves just to remember that you did visit the BD Live section. A quick revisit to that section will create a new auto-save.

Thanks!

[neo_reloaded]

Ok, so it is hidden, but it's in the normal BD Utility Data folder, gotcha.

[iam1bearcat]

That happened to me as well (I think it happened to everyone). But when I put in disc 5 of the DHARMA edition, that white screen was the first thing that popped up. It didn't even show me the statue! Thought that was odd...

[Alpha]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

That happened to me as well (I think it happened to everyone). But when I put in disc 5 of the DHARMA edition, that white screen was the first thing that popped up. It didn't even show me the statue! Thought that was odd...

Yeah, same here. It's because it doesn't matter what disc you use, it's the player. The player saves the effect, not the disc.

[Misanthrope]

I'm having this problem too, and the effect has spread to my season 6 disk too!

Doesn't stop me watching the episodes, but it's getting really annoying...

I've tried deleting the whole BD Utility Data folder, but it's not working for me.

This is on a PS3, so I'm a lot less free to go around browsing files and deleting them than I would be with a PC.


Anyone got any ideas for what I can do about this? Seems like it's an error with the design of the disks themselves, to cause a problem like this?