I paused 2 Universal titles ("The Strangers" and "The Incredible Hulk") for an extended period of time and when I went back to resume the movie, the screen was displaying a screen-saver with a Universal logo. Hitting "pause" did nothing, and hitting "play" displayed "this operation is not available now" (or something like that). I had to press "stop", then "play" which got me back to the menu, then had to figure out what chapter I wanted.

I have only seen this on Universal BR. It's annoying.

Press "ENTER" or "OK". It typically gets it out of the Screensaver mode.

Thanks, I'll try that. But this screensaver thing is still a dumb idea.

just press the menu button, the button with the square on the ps3 remote.
not that big a deal.

I agree. It prevents the PS3 from going into its normal screen saver (dimming the screen), and I believe it also stops the PS3 from spinning down the disc. Very annoying.

While we're on the subject, I'm not a fan of discs with fancy BD-J "pause" graphics that pop up and cover part of the image. I consider that a major step backwards from DVD.

Agreed, just because you can doesn't mean you should. I DO like the discs that shrink the video to a small window when you access the pop-up menu rather than obscure the picture with hard-to-read overlays.

And the progress bar that some BDs use is a nice touch. The PS3 has its own progress bar so if the BD-J bar has more info, why not?

Not me. I don't think a pop-up menu should take over the entire screen.

Because it covers up part of the picture. If I'm looking through a movie frame-by-frame, I'd like to be able to actually see the whole frame, not some gigantic and unnecessary progress bar.