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Recent discussion on paidgeek's insider thread has brought up some suggestions for certain features and/or improvements to be made to Blu-ray discs, primarily Java titles. Credit goes out to Hanser for bringing these points up:

Originally Posted by hanser

Dear paidgeek,

now that I have some experience with BD titles from various studios, I have accumulated some suggestions, how Sony titles could be further improved IMO (apart from the already mentionned adding the calibration pictures to the menu), in no particular order:


- I like the scenes menue with the scrolling band of small pictures, but it would be still better, if it would start at the scene you are just watching. E.G if I go the scenes menu in the middle of the movie, because I am looking for a scene further at the end, I nevertheless start with the first scene and have to scroll through all scenes which takes some time and work. Could the player be instructed to start at the current scene?

- I do not know if it is only with my Sharp player, but I can´t chose chapters via the numbers on the remote. If it is a general BD thing, it would be nice to have this function.

- User prohibitions. Is it really necessary to forbid going "next" for exemple while the menu is building up? I would be nice if this restriction would not be used any more, it is really bothersome, if you just want to watch the movie.

- Since most players still take a long time to load Java menues, would it be possible to include at the beginning a choice between the full Java menue loading and a "movie only" option which circumvents the Java with all the extras. It would be extremly helpful if you just want to watch the movie, which is mostly the case in real life. Ideally then the disc would be like a Warner BD: Logo, maybe some FBI thingy if necessary, and the movie starts without further ado.

- BD-Java titles start from the beginning after one has pressed "Stop", while other titles just resume with play. If technically possible it would be nice, that also Java titles could resume after "Stop".


- When I watch extras I can´t access the menu, I have to skip forward until the extra is finished, then it reverts to the movie. It would be nice to access to the menu at all times during watching extras, so you could directly switch to another extra.

I hope this may be helpful.

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