Having your player in "pause" for long time

[I KEEL YOU]

How badly does pressing pause on your blu ray player and then leaving it on for relatively long periods of time affect the lifespan of a player as opposed to turning it off completely.

I do this for some blu rays, mainly Universal ones because they don't have auto-resume feature and it takes several minutes of menu browsing from turning the player on to wathing the movie.

[Blu Jedi Master]

I would be more concerned of the image burning on the LCD then the Blu-ray being on pause.

[halloween5309]

my panasonic player will stay on pause forever but my sony bdps1200 will only stay paused 20 minutes
i usually turn the tv off
sometimes i pause a disc and go to wendy's etc...

[imsounoriginal]

Pause the player and turn off the TV, then turn it back on when you're ready to unpause.

[tezster]

My OPPO goes into a screen-saving mode once a movie's been paused past a few minutes. In addition, I can turn the display of my Sony TV off while the TV is still "on" (I love this feature!).

I have it all programmed into a macro/sequence of my Harmony remote. So the movie pauses, the TV screen goes black, and the AVR mutes, essentially putting everything into a "hot standby" mode with a single button-press. Since all the devices are still connected, I don't have to wait for the TV to power backup and re-negotiate the HDCP handshake getting everything back up, so it's a seamless, near-instantaneous process.