Really Annoying Thing About Blu-ray

[blairh]

So I just got my first Blu-ray player. I bought an HDTV for my bedroom a few months back and figured it was time to take in some awesome movie action too.

Got my BD (Blu-ray disc) player yesterday and have been messing around with it. After some research online last night and today I learned that BD players cannot resume a BD if they are playing a format called "Blu-Ray Java". Turns out most new releases are BR-J.

This really ******* sucks if say, you want to stop a movie and watch the rest the following day. Once you shut off the BD player the movie automatically starts from the main menu screen upon restart.

There is this thing called "bookmarking" where you can restart from a specific scene but not all BR-J's enable said feature and you still have to go through the previews and start up screen to access it.

This. *******. Blows. After 10 years of watching DVDs and taking auto restart for granted (and assuming it would be a part of my home movie viewing for the rest of time) I now have to deal with this bullshit. I contemplated just going back to DVD but once you've seen the awesome quality of BD's I think it would be a major step down. But the ******* auto start thing........

Curious to know what the SF community feels about this. I'm assuming quite a lot of you have BD players.

 

[GQgeek]

Meh. I almost never start a movie and don't finish it so it's a non-issue for me. Just put the disc in, go get your snacks/drinks, and when you come back you'll be through most of the nag screens. There only screens you can't skip are the FBI warnings. The previews are annoying but skipping them takes a few seconds... It's not even closet to a deal-breaker for me. I can barely tolerate watching DVDs anymore. The quality is horrible on a really large screen, even with upscaling.

 

[Hombre Secreto]

I use a PS3 for bluray and it ALWAYS resumes where I tuned out from.

 

[blairh]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

Meh. I almost never start a movie and don't finish it so it's a non-issue for me. Just put the disc in, go get your snacks/drinks, and when you come back you'll be through most of the nag screens. There only screens you can't skip are the FBI warnings. The previews are annoying but skipping them takes a few seconds... It's not even closet to a deal-breaker for me. I can barely tolerate watching DVDs anymore. The quality is horrible on a really large screen, even with upscaling.
I tend to watch films before bed when I've done everything else (gym, work, dinner, gf/out). I tried to squeeze in half a movie before bed and the remainder the next night. Now I have to either write down where I've left off time wise or configure my schedule to take in the entire movie in one sitting.

"I use a PS3 for bluray and it ALWAYS resumes where I tuned out from." If you shut off your PS3 it cannot resume playing a Blu-ray-Java disc unless you have specifically bookmarked a scene with your PS3.

 

[Hombre Secreto]

Crank started from the beginning unlike other blurays I have.... You're right. Still not a big deal to me.

 

[javyn]

I guess I'm lucky for having never experienced HD. I have a 720p HDTV or some ****, but it's got composite cables plugged into it. Looks great to me.

 

[AR_Six]

Personally I will never watch a movie if I don't have time to get through it. The instances where I'm unexpectedly interrupted in the middle of movie-watching are few and far between. I never really made use of the DVD feature when I was using DVDs.

 

[willy cheesesteak]

blairh, why not just watch an episode or 2 of a TV show instead if you know you can't sit through a whole movie?

 

[whiteslashasian]

Is the inability to start where left off on BD-J discs something that can be fixed and updated on the PS3? I would think it could be programmed...

 

[blairh]

Originally Posted by willy cheesesteak

blairh, why not just watch an episode or 2 of a TV show instead if you know you can't sit through a whole movie?

I don't watch much TV. Mad Men, The Soup, PTI, 30 Rock, Archer, Metalocalypse, and Entourage. All get DVR'd and watched when it's convenient for me. But now that I'm doing Netflix BD rentals I'm tempted to watch a film (or half of it) before bed.

I'll figure something out. It is a step back technology wise that it simply doesn't restart (with respect to BR-J discs). I just never thought auto resume wouldn't be a part of my movie viewing experience after having it the past 12 years on my DVD player.

"Is the inability to start where left off on BD-J discs something that can be fixed and updated on the PS3? I would think it could be programmed..."

It has nothing to do with the player and everything to do with the disc themselves. Hopefully BR-J will eventually allow for auto resume down the road, or future BD players will figure out a way to incorporate it. Even a bookmark on a current BR-J forces you to load the disc, FF through any previews, and queue up the bookmark.

 

[CDFS]

Sometimes evolutionary techniques are a step back.

 

[zippyh]

I believe the inability of a given BD-J disc to resume is due to the way that particular disc is authored and isn't necessarily due to the player.

 

[laughwithm3]

you should've just bought a ps3

 

[thekunk07]

not much sucks about blu ray on my 60" led

 

[blairh]

Originally Posted by laughwithm3

you should've just bought a ps3

No player can auto resume a BR-J. Not even a PS3.