Is the resume feature so difficult?

[AKORIS]

I never use BD Live nor do I ever intend to use internet features--

it is truly a bummer that you can't stop most movies without starting
all the way from the beginning (some with horrible load times to boot!)

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

I never use BD Live nor do I ever intend to use internet features--

it is truly a bummer that you can't stop most movies without starting
all the way from the beginning (some with horrible load times to boot!)

LOL I don't mind load times, all blu-rays pretty much load immediately for me. I hate the ones with the previews that you have to forward chapter past instead of skipping them completely. Especially the ones that advertise blu-ray, it's like HELLO, I almost own 300 of the buggers you don't need to advertise it to me!

[fatediesel]

I get really annoyed when I'm watching a TV show on Blu-ray that doesn't have resume play. I just finished the first 2 seasons of Dexter and it had resume play (except the last disc of season 2) but now I'm watching Mad Men season 1 and it doesn't have resume play and it drives me crazy. I usually only watch 15-20 minutes of an episode at a time so it's annoying to have to fast forward to the point I was at. Not a huge deal, but a nuisance for sure.

[Chordata]

Totally agree, but I believe there are tons of recent threads on this subject.

Some people disagree with us, claiming that we ruin the artists' visions by not watching a movie in one sitting.

LOL

[mac1165]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Some people disagree with us, claiming that we ruin the artists' visions by not watching a movie in one sitting.

If I want to watch a movie in one sitting, I'll go the cinema, which I don't do so much anymore.

If I was forced to watch movies in one sitting, I would NEVER see most movies, in turn ruining the vision of many artists.

[Afrobean]

They say it's a limitation of the java platform, but that's a load of hogwash.

They recommend that users use the bookmark feature, but it's not even available on all titles.

But it is entirely possible that the player's could be designed in a way such that when the power or stop button is pressed, it would automatically save a bookmark in its memory as if you had pressed the button for it, then when the disc loads the next time, it would recognize that you had recently auto-saved a bookmark and autoplay from that point in the feature.

Very simple workaround, but the software and hardware needs to work together. There needs to be a standardized method by which players could autosave a bookmark for a film regardless of how it's programmed or what studio it came from.

But really, this is exactly how DVD resume works. It notes the place in the movie where it is, saves it in memory, then skips right to that part the next time the film is loaded. The very fact that bookmarks are possible and recommended to emulate this feature prove that it's possible on the software's end to resume, just a matter of working a way for the hardware to do it automatically.

[blujacket]

Personally, I don't see what all the fuss is over resuming a movie where you stopped it. How many times do you start and not finish a movie? A few button presses in the menu, and your right back to where you stopped.