Inability to start in the middle

[Magnum007]

Has anyone else run into this problem:
You are watching a blue ray movie and for some reason have to stop it. When you turn on your blue ray player again, (for a majority of the movies) you have to sit through the idiotic 'sales-pitch' intro screens and then have to do a screen select. It seems that these blue rays/players can't do what a simple DVD does--remember where you stopped. Any help--is there a way to overcome this, or is a corporate thing that the Sony's and Paramounts and Disney's of the world have to be educated about?

Thanks!
Magnum

[caliminius]

I hate to be the forum police, but USE THE FORUM SEARCH FEATURE. There's probably over a hundred threads on this same subject (unless the moderators have merged them already).

[bajor27]

Though it doesn't bother me specifically, this is unfortunately one of the downsides to moving over to Java based systems. With these more advanced features the system isn't able to remember where you stopped the movie because it would actually have to remember a lot more than just that. It would have to remember every last setting and feature you were/weren't watching/using.

It's only the Blu-rays that don't use this advanced java stuff that you'll be able to resume like on DVDs.

Many Java systems do now offer a bookmarking system though. When you need to turn off a movie part way though, just place a bookmark there and you can jump back to that bookmark when you return. You will still have to watch or skip through all the intro commercials again though. No way around that that I'm aware of

[binarymelon]

Originally Posted by bajor27

Though it doesn't bother me specifically, this is unfortunately one of the downsides to moving over to Java based systems. With these more advanced features the system isn't able to remember where you stopped the movie because it would actually have to remember a lot more than just that. It would have to remember every last setting and feature you were/weren't watching/using.

It's only the Blu-rays that don't use this advanced java stuff that you'll be able to resume like on DVDs.

Many Java systems do now offer a bookmarking system though. When you need to turn off a movie part way though, just place a bookmark there and you can jump back to that bookmark when you return. You will still have to watch or skip through all the intro commercials again though. No way around that that I'm aware of

In the next little while, I think we'll start to see this getting better and better. I know the Grey's Anatomy Blu-ray for season 4 has the most amazing feature I have come across yet. If you use the season play feature it knows at all times where you are in the season. You just hit continue and you continue playing where you left off. Not only that but once you finish a disc it prompts you for the next one and loads you directly into the epidsode, no menus, trailers, ads, etc.

[FilmmakingFiasco]

Originally Posted by binarymelon

In the next little while, I think we'll start to see this getting better and better. I know the Grey's Anatomy Blu-ray for season 4 has the most amazing feature I have come across yet. If you use the season play feature it knows at all times where you are in the season. You just hit continue and you continue playing where you left off. Not only that but once you finish a disc it prompts you for the next one and loads you directly into the epidsode, no menus, trailers, ads, etc.

Buena Vista started this with Lost Season 3, and yes, it is amazing.

[cathexist]

Most discs that load up with Java have the bookmark feature, I've tried to get in the habit of using that little green button on my remote

[andyman1970]

Originally Posted by Magnum007

Has anyone else run into this problem:
You are watching a blue ray movie and for some reason have to stop it. When you turn on your blue ray player again, (for a majority of the movies) you have to sit through the idiotic 'sales-pitch' intro screens and then have to do a screen select. It seems that these blue rays/players can't do what a simple DVD does--remember where you stopped. Any help--is there a way to overcome this, or is a corporate thing that the Sony's and Paramounts and Disney's of the world have to be educated about?

Thanks!
Magnum

Early DVD players couldn't do this either and as for your player, are you sure it isn't the movie? some of the JAVA ones won't do that and you have to use the bookmark feature. Of course, if I have to stop a movie for some reason I'd rather just start over anyway.