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My new LG player returns to the beginning when I press STOP, instead of the dialog I'm used to seeing, "press twice to.."
There's a function called Marker with no mention in the instructions which simply say to pausebthe movie, press Pause!
If I want to turn off for awhile but return to the same place, what to do? Also, on Pause, the Sumbitch creeps forwardvas much as 30 seconds.
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Like Jack said... I have owned quite a few BDPs and still have a few of them.
If the BD is a typical one with Java, then you can't stop it and return to where you left off. This is not a hardware issue.
Some newer BDs with Java do allow returning to where you left off, not sure if there's a way to know this beforehand. Not very common yet, but hope it becomes so. One example of this is Modern Family S2 BDs. There is another older method exemplified by the Lost BDs, where you can have it return to where you left off, but this is a very specific and somewhat limited and unusual method IME. Bottom line is it has to be specifically programmed on the disc, it is not a player function/hardware issue.
There is a second type of BD with Java that allows bookmarking. This is with the Green key. This ability is usually obvious because it will be somewhere on the main menu too. For example, just about all Universal and Lionsgate BDs have this. You still have to go through all the BD startup rigamarole though, before you can access the bookmark to resume. Again, not a hardware issue.
BDs without Java will behave like a DVD and will re-start where you left off with usually the exact same dialog as for a DVD.
It's all a bloody nuisance and was just one of the many reasons so many said BD wasn't ready for prime time. Besides all the player FW updates for new BDs, it was getting to be more painful to actually *use* the damn things compared to DVDs. We get used to it though, the ultimate result is definitely worth it...
Is that for all discs or just Blu-ray? Most Blu-ray discs don't let you return where you left off- a couple do, but they are in the minority. I was told its a software issue, not a hardware issue.
Jack
I think it's BOTH a software issue and a hardware issue. I have two BluRay players. One of them will **sometimes offer to let you resume playing BluRay discs where you left off, even after the machine has been shut off (but it still makes you go through the previews etc. to get to the menu. The other player will never go that, even on the same disc that would restart in the other machine where I left off.
Either machine will resume DVDs where I left off. I miss my Sony DVD player with its multi-disc resume option. It remembered the place I stopped watching in the last five discs I had loaded.
I know my Oppo 83 will not remember the place for most BDs, except for my Torchwood BDs, and maybe one or two others. No problem with DVDs. Odd that the studios can't be bothered to give Blu-ray a basic feature that's on pretty much all DVDs. Heaven forbid they should think of their customers.
Jack
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