PS3 resume video at last point???

[Jeff Swearingen]

My player is a PS3.

I'm wondering if it has the capability to allow me to watch part of a BR, stop it, power down the machine, then come back later, power it up and start playing where I left off. Is this something the player controls? Is this a disc encoding choice?

[GMan0392]

it's a little annoying, there surely must be a setting for this?

[cathexist]

It looks to be something that was just overlooked...strange as well.

Even the PSP has this feature.

[HDPerfection]

Originally Posted by cathexist

It looks to be something that was just overlooked...strange as well.

Even the PSP has this feature.

I thought mine had done that before but I am a newbie and could be wrong...I may not have powered it down but chose to quit playback for sure.....

[owa]

For whatever reason, neither of the hi-def formats seem to handle this by default. Usually, you have to use some other method, like bookmarks. Lost Season 3 provides that capability though so apparently, it can be incorporated by the titles.

[aphex]

if you don't turn off the ps3 you should be fine. just run folding @ home and help cure cancer.

[cathexist]

Yeah, if you just stop playback you can resume, but if you turn off the PS3 itself...then it will not resume.

[roopster77]

This is fixed with the latest firmware update.

[SDon1969]

So far for me, BD Resume play on Stealth works, Resident Evil doesn't.

[hoogoosedmoose41]

personally i think if the resume playback doesnt work on all discs whats the point?

makes it a PITA to remember which discs work and which ones dont

[groverlakshay]

Originally Posted by roopster77

This is fixed with the latest firmware update.

no it's not.

not with every movie.

[Jeff Kleist]

My hypothesis on why there is no automatic resume play is that what we know as resume play on DVD is simply bookmarking. On DVD, no application is running while you're watching the movie; the DVD menu button will call up the menu screens and the subtitles/audio buttons are player dependent.

With BDs, pop-up menus are part of a simple application that runs concurrent with the movie; that's not including actual BD-J apps. To resume play, you have to capture the state of the player when you pressed stop, something like suspending a laptop into hibernation. This may require more persistent memory more than the first/second gen BD players allow (PS3 is a league on its own). Bookmarking with BD-J is easy to implement (it doesn't have to capture the player's state) but was just not implemented on the authoring side

This is mostly correct. To do a "save state" requires a ludicrous amount of storage space and effort.

Bookmarking is actually a cheat and a workaround

Great BDJ programmers are working on ways to implement auto-resume, I'm sure they'll come up with a similar cheat in due time like the one that enabled bookmarking

[Steve]

I don't have the technical explanation, but I know some movies do pick up where they were left off. Any time I put in Hellboy, it goes straight to the end credits somewhere. Just wherever I happened to have stopped it the last time I stopped the movie when I was done watching it. The rest of my movies have to reload though, and pick up from the beginning or menu. And my player is a PS3.

[scomeau1]

Originally Posted by Jeff Swearingen

My player is a PS3.

I'm wondering if it has the capability to allow me to watch part of a BR, stop it, power down the machine, then come back later, power it up and start playing where I left off. Is this something the player controls? Is this a disc encoding choice?

Does anyone know if the Pioneer BDP-51FD will do the above ?

Thanks !