Resume Play problems with BDP S-350

[tommyjoe]

I bought a Sony BDP S-350 a week ago and am having problems with Resume Play. When I am viewing a Blu-ray movie and hit "Stop", I get a white rectangle containing the message: "Resume play prohibited at this point. Playback resumes from the beginning." I contacted Sony and received and installed a Firmware Update, but the problem persists. Have others had this problem? Any suggestions?

[JasonR]

All players do this on BD-J titles. Consider using the bookmark feature, or don't hit stop.

[tommyjoe]

I am really new at this. What is a BD-J title? I was playing the new Indiana Jones movie in Blu-ray.

[JasonR]

It is a movie that has Java enabled features, which Indy has. No player will resume play on these titles. There should be a bookmark feature, you can try that for these titles.

[tommyjoe]

The Operating Instructions manual supplied with my Sony BDP-S350 does not have "bookmarks" in its index.

[ryoohki]

Originally Posted by tommyjoe

The Operating Instructions manual supplied with my Sony BDP-S350 does not have "bookmarks" in its index.

Bookmarks are offered on some Java Title. Altought not all of them. Sony use it, Universal use them also. Paramount don't if i remember, so there's no way of resuming their title. You'll have to remember where you where and use the Chap Selection button.

[TechFrenzy]

Originally Posted by tommyjoe

I bought a Sony BDP S-350 a week ago and am having problems with Resume Play. When I am viewing a Blu-ray movie and hit "Stop", I get a white rectangle containing the message: "Resume play prohibited at this point. Playback resumes from the beginning." I contacted Sony and received and installed a Firmware Update, but the problem persists. Have others had this problem? Any suggestions?

This happens to me too. Its crazy. Why would some movies not support such a simple and great feature?

[Tstacey30]

I agree. I originally bought a Sharp-BDHP21U and I hated the no resume play function. I took it back for that and some other reasons I read about online. I tested the S350 for resume play with "Invincible" and it would work if stop was pushed, but not when it powered down. Now I've read online that some can't understand why this is such a big deal, but I have a seven-year old and a four-year old at home. My wife is not keen on having to operate the theater equipment if it's real complicated, so I macro'ed everything to a Harmony remote and with resume play, the kids can watch part of a movie and come back at any given time to pick up where they left off with my existing DVD player. For me, no resume play on Blu Ray is almost a dealbreaker.

[Arizona-Heat]

I found this out after buying my first blu ray player, no play resume memory for java titles. I tried out 4 other models, all the same thing, really sucks in my opinion. I wish they would stop making java application titles and go back to having the stop button work. I don't even know why they put a stop button on the remote now, it useless.

[hoju3508]

Resume playback works fine for standard DVD.

[cbessant]

My Blu-Ray (Samsung BD-6900) does not resume after Stop or power off like with DVDs as described in this thread.

Is this still a "feature" of Blu-Ray. (I have no clue if the disc is Java enabled or not; the movie is "21"). Using Bookmarks seems like a lot of effort when "Stop" is a lot simpler, ans Stop/resume should be the default as most consumers are not very sophisticated - they just want to play discs and not mess with all the bells and whistles.

If people don't want the Stop/Resume function like DVD has, this should be an option in the set-up. I don't see how technically this can't be enabled as with DVD. It just needs to memorize the track/sector on the disc, right?

I don't recall this being a problem until the latest software update in July 2011 from Samsung. I've tried calling Samsung and they don't know if this is a bug or feature (of Blu-Ray).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[smackrabbit]

When you stop a BD-J title, the entire BD-J software code has to be unloaded from memory, which includes the location you were at on the disc. Some recent titles (Bambi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) seem to automatically track where you are and let you resume at that point later, though the BD-J code does have to reload which is not a quick process.

I can't say for certain if this is copy protection related or something else, but the only way for a player to get around this on a BD-J title would be to somehow "hibernate" the current memory to flash, and then be able to restore that movie from hibernation later. Of course, this is a lot of data, opens it up to being able to access that data and read off the contents, and other issues that would keep this from ever happening. The only real way around it are bookmarks, or if the title can automatically remember where you were last at.

[jonesyg27]

I don't know what the difference is, but I've been watching the new LOTR EE blu-rays and they have let me resume, just like the old DVD. None of my older BDs have allowed this, so something has changed, for the better. I updated the Oppo firmware in April, and this is the first time I've noticed it.

[Chaz05]

Nothing has changed, it seems. My firmware is updated and I had no resume feature in Thor.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Chaz05

Nothing has changed, it seems. My firmware is updated and I had no resume feature in Thor.

If Thor uses BD-Java, as I think it does, then it won't have the resume function. You'll only be able to resume titles which use BDMV. Instead you need to bookmark your place, for bd-j titles, prior to stopping the disc or turning off the player.