A movie without BD-J. What a relief!!

[sebasd5]

I had never watched the Harry Potter movies, so I decided to get started and got the first one from Netflix. At one point I had to pause to do something else for a while, and it turned out to be a little longer than I expected, so the Blu-ray player turned off by itself.

When I turned it back on, and pressed play, the movie resumed right to the point where I had paused it!! It didn't make me waste a minute or two loading, no stupid progress bar or circle. It was bliss. Or as it could be called in the world of Blu-ray, BDMV.

Now remind me, who was the idiot that came up with the idea to author Blu-rays with an abomination like BD-J? And who are the idiots that supported the technology? It seems to me that some people in Hollywood love to waste their time and decided that they should waste the time of all of us as well.

[AreaUnderTheCurve]

A lot of the WB discs start the film as soon as you put them in.

[sebasd5]

Originally Posted by JLTucker

A lot of the WB discs start the film as soon as you put them in.

No, I'm talking about resuming the film exactly where it was playing before you hit stop, as soon as the player loads the disc. A few titles in BD-J included something in the programming to resume, but you still have to waste time waiting for the damn progress bar or circle to finish. And that's on new units, if you have a nice old BD player from 2007 that you paid good money for, you have to wait about 4 minutes to load BD-J titles.

[Clark Kent]

Most early Blu-ray releases from 3 or 4 years ago do not have BD-Java on them. The studios all hired programmers to write their own proprietary BD-J code, so felt compelled to re-use it on most releases even when the disc did not really call for it. A nuisance on many BDs.

[sebasd5]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Most early Blu-ray releases from 3 or 4 years ago do not have BD-Java on them. The studios all hired programmers to write their own proprietary BD-J code, so felt compelled to re-use it on most releases even when the disc did not really call for it. A nuisance on many BDs.

In my opinion no disc calls for it. What is it good for? Connect to the internet? Why do I want to connect to the internet and watch crappy quality videos when I'm watching a Blu-ray disc? I just don't get it. It's nothing but a stupid gimmick, which would be fine with me if it didn't make me waste hours of my life when adding all the time in all the movies I rented or bought with that crap.

[NYorker]

With my BTTF trilogy, every time I paused for more than 30 seconds, it stopped completely and I had to go back to the menu, go to scene selection...etc, etc. Every time! drove me crazy...

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by JLTucker

A lot of the WB discs start the film as soon as you put them in.

Yeah, all WB BD-J titles not allow for resuming, but as the original poster stated, you do still have to wait for the Java code to load with the little loading icon...

A lot of WB rental discs are HDMV (in fact, there's a few studios that HDMV versions of their rental discs now since it's frequently just the movie and a couple of trailers), so you will see a difference there. Don't go out and buy a WB disc expecting to have the same experience you had from the rental. You will get a lot more bonus content, but you also get the BD-J menus.