DVD is the only format that should exist
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 03:03 AM)
It's just nice to have. Especially if, say, I'm interrupted while watching a BD and have to go do something, it's good to be able to just press stop, then switch everything on again, push play and bang, right back to the movie. Considering it's 100% standard on DVDs, it seems bizarre to make it randomly implemented on Blu Ray.
That said I don't give a toss about the ones that leave a cookie in the player's memory, since in most cases all that does is give me the option to go directly to the end credits. I just like to be able to resume something easily if needed, rather than sit there and wait 5 minutes for the damn disc to load all over again. -
Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 04:06 AM)
100% standard on DVDs
Sure about that?
be able to just press stop, then switch everything on again, push play and bang, right back to the movie
Well this is what I'm talking about. I can't think of any of My BDs that don't do this, unless I take the disc out.
It only prevents me from resuming a disc that hasn't left the player if I've been watching special features or watching the movie in some special mode (or the power cuts out completely).
Also. It depends on your BD players stand-by mode. If you have a quick start function on your player then that's your best way of ensuring you can resume without waiting for the player to reboot.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 01:37 PM)
I've never had a DVD player that didn't auto-resume when stopped. I'm pretty sure most Sony players actually create an auto-resume cookie for DVDs, but generally if you haven't removed the disc from the player it should go right back to where it was. My Sony BD players (I have two, sold my first one because it had audio issues inherent to the player's design) do that with all DVDs, but a number of BDs - as I said, mostly the ones from Paramount, Warners and also many of 20th Century Fox and Universal's older ones - will have to fully reload from the start even if I stop them for one second and then restart them. But then a lot of BDs made by smaller distributors just auto-resume like a DVD.
This possibly has more to do with players than discs, since it seems some players can bypass the disc program and jump straight back to the last stop-point if they're not ejected. Maybe I've backed the wrong horse, but since I also have a Sony TV and audio system, it made sense to also have their BD player for the sake of easily sync'd control options. -
WarrenPeach — 1 year ago(September 09, 2024 02:40 AM)
So what if you have to search around for the last scene you watched? Life is hard.
Wrong Marmadukebagelhole, it should never be hard when it comes to movie watching. Get your head out of the gutter, man.
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Wman1996 — 10 years ago(May 22, 2015 02:38 PM)
Honestly, DVD has plenty of problems as a format. DVD is full of region locking, annoying packaging, full screen and wide screen versions to confuse the consumer, etc
There is yet to be a format that lacks a major problem. Honestly, the only thing DVD has over Blu-ray is price.
In addition, I find VHS still highly watchable and I love that you can stop it anywhere and skip through everything at the beginning.
In all honesty, I really want to start collecting Laserdisc. It seems like such an awesome format to me.
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Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(May 26, 2015 04:54 AM)
I find that Blu rays are more likely to let you skip the warnings, trailers etc than DVDs are. In fact DVDs are a major paing for being unable to skip this stuff then when it's done, there's a language select screen before the main menu! So if I leave the room while all the preview stuff is playing I've still got to go through more warnings after selecting my language.
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ir001 — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 10:33 AM)
Perhaps they are assuming most people want to watch a film right through with no pauses. I had a portable dvd player once which had a 10 inch screen and it was good for watching films at close range but the sound was low, also it's battery only lasted 2 hours but it could work on the mains. I also had a proper dvd player that connected to my television but I could never get dvd's to play in it. It was too technical for me. In any case I would have thought that a hard drive would be better than dvds for playing films on.
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