Red Green Blue Yellow Buttons

[nycomet]

The Red Green Blue Yellow buttons on my Sony BDP-S300 don't do anything on any of my BDs -- except for I Robot. Why is that? Why have all them buttons if they don't have any function?

[JJ]

Originally Posted by nycomet

The Red Green Blue Yellow buttons on my Sony BDP-S300 don't do anything on any of my BDs -- except for I Robot. Why is that? Why have all them buttons if they don't have any function?

Meh, they're really there in case future releases take advantage of them, like I, Robot.

[Krandor]

3:10 to Yuma used them as well for bookmarks.

[ToonyLoons]

Most of what I have heard says they may be used for BD-Java games in the future. The only features I have seen them being used for so far are marking, deleting and bringing up bookmarks on different films.

[blurayisking]

The BLUE button is used to check the firmware version on your player.

Now that I, ROBOT has started the trend, I believe we'll see more blu-ray discs taking advantage of the coloured buttons.

[rragland]

Originally Posted by Krandor

3:10 to Yuma used them as well for bookmarks.

Across the Universe offers the bookmark feature as well.

[iNCREDiPiNOY]

Have you read a book called "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" If you know which animal is red, then it's the red ants and the green is the caterpillar. lol! But I don't remember what's blue and yellow.

[Havok83]

Spiderman 3 uses it for bookmarks

[EricJ]

I've seen them turn up in bonus features, like multiple-choices and trivia games.

We have just yet begun to explore the mysteries...

[Zipzap713]

Wanna know another BD Button that has no function? That "Angle" button. Every movie I've seen in Blu-Ray, doesn't use that button.

[kiskiboy97]

Originally Posted by Zipzap713

Wanna know another BD Button that has no function? That "Angle" button. Every movie I've seen in Blu-Ray, doesn't use that button.

20 Million Miles to Earth does. It switches the movie from black and white to the colorized version.

[rragland]

Originally Posted by Zipzap713

Wanna know another BD Button that has no function? That "Angle" button. Every movie I've seen in Blu-Ray, doesn't use that button.

That is because the movie only has (1) angle option. The only multi-angle movies I have ever heard of were porn.

[jpthomas27]

Originally Posted by Zipzap713

Wanna know another BD Button that has no function? That "Angle" button. Every movie I've seen in Blu-Ray, doesn't use that button.

The angle button goes all the way back to the beginning of DVD, and still hasn't been used to my knowledge. Although I'm sure someone out there knows of a movie at some point that used it, once.

[WickyWoo]

Disney actually used it on virtually every title for French/Spanish/German/Japanese credits. That's why they'd lock your audio button, so you don't choose English and get "le rock".

Multi-angle was horrible in many ways because you still only had 9.2mbps to work with. So every stream you added took away from the others. Several titles like Goonies used it for PiP commentaries, there's extras that did it for viewing stunt shots, Queen live a Wembley has 4 numbers where you can see each member of the band's angle.

Porn used it almost immediately. In the early days, people came into the store "Anything that uses angles?" "Just porn"

[kotton247]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Disney actually used it on virtually every title for French/Spanish/German/Japanese credits. That's why they'd lock your audio button, so you don't choose English and get "le rock".

Multi-angle was horrible in many ways because you still only had 9.2mbps to work with. So every stream you added took away from the others. Several titles like Goonies used it for PiP commentaries, there's extras that did it for viewing stunt shots, Queen live a Wembley has 4 numbers where you can see each member of the band's angle.

Porn used it almost immediately. In the early days, people came into the store "Anything that uses angles?" "Just porn"

Gotta love those different angles.

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by jpthomas27

The angle button goes all the way back to the beginning of DVD, and still hasn't been used to my knowledge. Although I'm sure someone out there knows of a movie at some point that used it, once.

I've seen it on some concert videos, where you could pick either the view the director chose or focus on any one of the band members.

It was kind of cute, but I always had Panasonic DVD players which made the angle (and audio and subtitle) button very clunky to use. You'd have to click the button to bring up a menu, then scroll to the view you wanted, then hit enter to select it. Most players instead would just cycle to the next view with a single press, which was a lot easier.

(The irony is that I always wanted angle, audio, and subtitle to use the single click to cycle approach, but now that I have it with the PS3 some of these BDs have subtitles in so many languages that the Panasonic approach would be much quicker.)

[lch]

disney studio ghibli release "spirited away", "the cat returns" dvd use the angle button to switch between the storyboard and the movie.

[fupduk2]

I use them on my HD-dvr.

[WickyWoo]

disney studio ghibli release "spirited away", "the cat returns" dvd use the angle button to switch between the storyboard and the movie.

No wonder the US disc looks overly compressed

The Japanese release splits it across 2 DVD-9s

[silversnake]

might be a stupid question but can you access these special features without the normal BD remote? I am using my ps3 controller as my remote and i wanted to check out the special features on I robot but can't seem to select those by colors. Any help would be appreciated