Resume Play feature on Blu-ray titles

[steve_dave]

No, it is a technical limition of BD-J:

From Sony:

Resume play won't work because BD-J application in the disc disables the resume function. The Java software controls playback plus all the interactive content (like what Windows OS does on the computer). When you hit stop, or turn off the player, the Java application on the disc reboots in the next playback. This results in resuming playback from the beginning of the disc. Therefore you should use pause instead of stop for Blu-ray disc that supports BD-J application.

Sony's compromise for Resume is the Bookmark function:

Is there a resume playback equivalent in Blu-ray player that utilizes Java?

Yes, it is possible using Bookmarks on the Blu-ray disc depending on disc type.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

No, it is a technical limition of BD-J:

From Sony:


Sony's compromise for Resume is the Bookmark function:

I am no BD-J programmer, and not sure what it can and can't do or how much info it can get from the player. But let's make a completely made up example. Let's say a title is authored so that when launching it resets (erases) a special bookmark that we will call "LSL" (last stop location), if you press stop during play back (watching movie) then it sets the LSL book mark to be that location. Now when loading the movie it checks if there is a LSL bookmark and if so loads the stuff but starts the movie from that locattion.

This is obviously a simplification, with BD-J there can be much more and that complicates stuff. For example:
Sony has Blue wizard on many titles (i.e. choose what extras to include during play back...) so would it know what extras you picked to add them back during play back?
Does BD-J offer to the program to know and over ride "stop" at least long enough to record the book mark?
BD-live connection, capabilities of player.... most likely are still needed at loading, and the rest for creating the menu and stuff, so maybe "start back on play" might not be realistic.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

I would only want this feature if it remained exclusively functional so long as the player is turned on.

I can't watch half a film, stop for a few days/weeks and then come back to the same point to finish it. I have to start a film over again if I'm interrupted. The films are made to be watched from start to finish. Doing anything else is not experiencing the film properly. And, as a result, I would hate it if I put a disc into the player and it took me straight to the middle of the film.

I'd rather not have Resume Play incorporated at all. It's bad for the artistic element of the film productions.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by Blodiak

yhea why not ?!?!? who could vote no ???!?!

I could... and did!

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

I would only want this feature if it remained exclusively functional so long as the player is turned on.

I can't watch half a film, stop for a few days/weeks and then come back to the same point to finish it. I have to start a film over again if I'm interrupted. The films are made to be watched from start to finish. Doing anything else is not experiencing the film properly. And, as a result, I would hate it if I put a disc into the player and it took me straight to the middle of the film.

I'd rather not have Resume Play incorporated at all. It's bad for the artistic element of the film productions.

[Trean]

With profile 2.0 compliant players there should be space allocated within memory for anything that needs to be saved and it should be saved and saved over when a disc stops multiple times. To allow multiple discs some sort of movie title could precede the saved data.

Its seems more like a standard that needs to implemented in the software programming of all BD-J discs. Certainly not an impossibility.

[scweb13]

I guess it's too much of a hassle to press one little button to save (bookmark) your progress on a movie. Kind of like if your writting a Word document, you just don't exit without saving.

[2themax]

Resume is possible on BD-J titles. I have personally written the code and it will incorporated on all future BD-J releases that I work on.

Though I didn't work on this particular release, anyone who has Bug's Life can test how resume on a BD-J title will work. It was the first title to market with the capability.

[sujay]

i've always wondered, is it possible for hardware to implement auto-resume that will work for all discs?

[Mobe1969]

I just wish they would dump b j discs. It is bad enough with movies. With tv series like heroes it is utterly woeful. Putting it as a technical limitation is an understatement. They could hide the bookmarking in the player so to the user it was seemless. But the fundamental oversite is a joke

[gregmasciola]

Originally Posted by scweb13

I guess it's too much of a hassle to press one little button to save (bookmark) your progress on a movie. Kind of like if your writting a Word document, you just don't exit without saving.

Remember, though, not all discs give you the option to leave a bookmark.

[P@t_Mtl]

It doesn't matter for me, when I start a movie I finish it and for TV series, I just never use the Play All features, I pick by episodes

[JillyBean819]

YES! I like that I can stop a DVD, turn off the DVD player, and the following day I pick up from the spot I left off at.

I don't like that I can't do this with Blu-Ray discs. I accidentally hit the stop button while watching a movie last night and had to start from scratch. How annoying...