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When Switching to Hi-Def What Do You Do With Your Old DVDs? |
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| Registered: May 1, 2008 |  Posts: 503 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi Terry I was intrigued by your question, so I have just tried it with my 1 Blu.  Now, I watched my Blu the day I purchased it, (22/10) on my PC but stopped it when I got to the end credits. I've just put the disc back in the drive and it started auto-playing from the point where I last stopped it over 1 month ago!!!!!!!!!!  | | | DVD
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| | Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | Re: the pressing stop thing
Maybe my viewing habits are different than yours, but I can't remember the last time I pressed stop while watching a movie. I put movies on pause all the time, but the only reason I can think of for pressing stop is if I don't have time to finish watching a movie in one sitting. And if that's the case I usually don't start it.
Does that really happen often enough for you guys that it's an issue? Or are you using the stop button when you want to pause it for some reason I can't think of? Does it put stress on the player to leave to movie paused perhaps? Are you worried about burn-in?
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You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. | | | | Last edited: by Astrakan |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | If I press stop on my Blu-Ray player, then press start again, it picks up where I left off in the movie.
I can ever power off the player, power on again and resume the movie in no time.
I own a European Panasonic DMP-BD30 with firmware version 2.0.
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| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | The resume-on-stop is NOT a blu feature, it's a player feature. It's up to the programmers of the player to add it. Why some did not initially is surprising but then again, didn't the first DVD players not resume either? |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
The resume-on-stop is NOT a blu feature, it's a player feature. It's up to the programmers of the player to add it. Why some did not initially is surprising but then again, didn't the first DVD players not resume either? $$$$$$ Steve |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,488 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Astrakan: Quote:
Re: the pressing stop thing
Maybe my viewing habits are different than yours, but I can't remember the last time I pressed stop while watching a movie. I put movies on pause all the time, but the only reason I can think of for pressing stop is if I don't have time to finish watching a movie in one sitting. And if that's the case I usually don't start it.
Does that really happen often enough for you guys that it's an issue? Or are you using the stop button when you want to pause it for some reason I can't think of? Does it put stress on the player to leave to movie paused perhaps? Are you worried about burn-in?
KM The stop button comes in ahndy if you are watching 3 half hr movie and you get a call to leave the house.. Or You accidentally hit stop instead of pause,, or,, The game is starting in five minutes and I'll get back to the movie another day.. Plus can you imagine the out cry if the manufacture forgot to include the stop on the remote ..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just checked this myself. The PS3 doesn't seem to resume BDs after being stopped, not with Sunshine anyway. Maybe it'll be implemented in a FW update tho. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MarEll: Quote:
Just checked this myself. The PS3 doesn't seem to resume BDs after being stopped, not with Sunshine anyway. Maybe it'll be implemented in a FW update tho. The PS3 will resume DVDs after hitting stop and BDs that don't have BD-J on them. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| | Registered: October 2, 2008 | | Posts: 110 |
| | | Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
Quoting MarEll:
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Just checked this myself. The PS3 doesn't seem to resume BDs after being stopped, not with Sunshine anyway. Maybe it'll be implemented in a FW update tho.
The PS3 will resume DVDs after hitting stop and BDs that don't have BD-J on them. I haven't watched the special features on the Sunshine BD yet which of them are Java? |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,488 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
The resume-on-stop is NOT a blu feature, it's a player feature. It's up to the programmers of the player to add it. Why some did not initially is surprising but then again, didn't the first DVD players not resume either? Not true,, as my HDD player can stop and resumeplayback on ordinary dvd's ,it is the HDD discs that don't start back up.., and the inital early players, as my Sony s3000 circa 1997, does just this- stop power off, and resumues to exact frame start up on power up. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's up to the software controlling the player to resume a movie. It's the program controlling things that determines how the movie is played and if the programmers didn't code it to resume, it won't resume.
When the PS3 first came out, it couldn't resume blu-ray discs - but now it can. The difference, a firmware update - the software controlling the player was updated to provide the functionality. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,328 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
It's up to the software controlling the player to resume a movie. It's the program controlling things that determines how the movie is played and if the programmers didn't code it to resume, it won't resume.
When the PS3 first came out, it couldn't resume blu-ray discs - but now it can. The difference, a firmware update - the software controlling the player was updated to provide the functionality. This is wrong. Resume feature is not present in any Blu-ray player with any Blu-ray that has been authored in advanced mode or BD-Java. This is practically all the latest big releases. Almost all Blu-ray players can resume play with older Blu-ray movies that were authored in Basic mode (almost all the discs that were released prior to ~6 months ago). If your player resume plays, then it's because you are using movies that were authored in Basic mode. | | | | My Home Theater |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | So, we're both right. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting Rifter:
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Well, I'm stingy. I'm not giving away any of what I currently own, and I have no plans to buy a BD player anytime soon. My current player upconverts to 1080i, which is the best my HDTV can play.
HD still has a long way to go before it comes anywhere close to market saturation, so I see no need to spend all that money on upgrades until they start actually phasing out the standard DVD format.
John, I felt the same way and was very skeptical regarding the format until I saw Blu-Ray on my Brother's 1080p 46" Plasma. I was literally blown away by the clarity and color depth of the picture compared to SD DVD and 1080i. I was hooked from that moment on. I've had my Panasonic 42" 1080p Plasma for about three weeks now and I'm still giddy when I watch a film in HD Blu-Ray . Both picture and sound are phenominal. Granted, it cost a good penny to upgrade: Total of just over $1,200.00 but I don't regret it for one minute. Yeah, I know. My brother has a 52 or 56" screen and an audio system most people would die for (his main speakers cost more than my entire TV/stereo/computer setup, and he has the full 7.1 setup). A significant percentage of my titles though are movies that are likely never to be put out on BD. The old westerns in B&W, classics from the 30's and 40's, etc. Sooner or later I'll change over, but not until I can upgrade my TV to at least something in 40's, and full 1080p. I also have video editing software that enables me to burn in BD format that I would like to be able to use, but without blank media that's kind of moot at this point. | | | John
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting widescreenforever:
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Since I don't own Bluray I have a question for my BD owners:
When you are playing the Hi-Def disc,, and, anywhere in the midst of the movie playing-- you touch the stop key on your remote.. the movie has now stopped., when you hit play again.. does it start from where you left off? or does it start up at the begining or the FBI warnings..???
My Toshiba A3 starts up again at the first 'running frame' ( FBI) and I find it it infurating,,, it now takes afew seconds to go past this and then get into the menu so I can now find the chapter section and figure out where I was., Pausing the film is the only to get back to the film running. I have been known to have the disc paused for 24 hours sometimes.
I was told this is how the Hidef players work.. It is not your conventional DVD player..like, when I'm using a regular player and regular DVD's I can stop the movie and turn off the deck., come back the next day and the player start up , It will start the movie playback from where I left off. I'd like to know if this is a common problem.
That's the one thing that irks me about Blu-Ray. If you press Stop, it does not "remember", like DVD players do, where you left off. It has to reload the disc  . My DVD player could "remember" up to 5 discs where I left off after pressing Stop....I sure miss that  . I wasn't aware of that little quirk, but now that I know, it is one more reason NOT to buy BD until I'm forced to. My hours are strange due to my work schedule, so I make heavy use of the DVD 'resumes where you left off' feature. Not worth giving that up just to get BD. | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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