I got Chasing Amy for Christmas and I watched a few scenes on Christmas day, I went to watch it today all the way through and when I pressed play it said "This movie has been played before, resume playing?" or something along those lines and you could say yes or no. I thought that was pretty cool I think more BDs should be like this. Not sure if it's this way with Clerks also.

All depends how the disc was authored. Some movies have that ability and some not.

Yeah, most if not all (perhaps recent) Buena Vista Blu-rays do that.

I think discs that use BD-Java can't be resumed.

But what the OP is saying is that he took the disc out, and put it back in at a later date and it still offered to resume, right? I haven't seen that on any discs but that sounds pretty cool.

I've seen it on my PS3 quite a few times.

I am disappointed that this is a feature of certain blu-ray disks rather than the player itself. It is really convenient especially for TV shows and long movies. My 8(?)-year old JVC DVD changer has this resume-play feature built-in for 30 or so discs. Since my Oppo does it too (though you have to press a couple of buttons to enable it), I thought I would be somewhat standard for any decent player.

Blu-Ray is a totally different beast.

The Heat Blu-Ray does that. That's the way it should be done. I hate trying to remember where I left off a movie if I just want to continue where I quit it.

Yeah I think that is a feature for the PS3 though, when I had my PS3 it did the same thing.

Yeah, I took it out and put it back in later. Awesome feature!

I just watched " The Warriors" took it out and after putting it back in started right from were I stoopped the movie.

The PS3 does this with all DVDs and BDs (save for BD-Java enabled titles).

also Known as modern WB, Universal, etc. Criterion doesn't pick up either. and it doesn't anything with BD-Java I think.

I believe the way it works is that any disc with BD-J for whatever reason (even if it's just a menu) won't resume unless it has been programmed to do so. Ironically, BD-J is what's used to enable this feature that asks you if you want to resume.

It's just frustrating that it has to be programmed on a disc-by-disc basis. DVDs were "dumb" and could be resumed on many players without any problems.

Oddly I was watching Chasing Amy and turned it off for a few hours. Didn't take the disc out or turn the player off. Went back to play it and I had to go back to the menu, I pressed play again and all it did was start playing from the beginning.

I think Sin City did that for me. It knew I had played it before, even though it had probably been a couple months since I had it in the player.

Funny how the biggest piece of shit $25 DVD player can do this, but for BD-Java everybody's stumped and it has to be encoded in the disc itself.

Right on.


Yes we know BluRay is "new and improved!", but if you can't take the simplest of features from a lower tier technology and ease it on up a level then you're pretty pathetic. I mean, I've put in discs from months ago in my Sony DVD five discer and it'll start up mid-movie and it takes me a minute to figure out I was watching it previously and I have to re-start it from the beginning.

VHS really spoiled us all with this feature.

Buena Vista does that. On the TV series like Lost, they call it season play.

My dream is that one day we'll get an update that can somehow override that issue. But...considering how that hasn't happened. I can just be a dick about it and silently bitch about it.

Find me one. Personally, I don't think I've ever owned a DVD player that had this feature (resume a disc after it's been ejected). $25 DVD players certainly don't have this feature.


The thing is, this feature was never part of the DVD spec, and was never standard on players. Some DVD players had this as an extra feature, but they were only able to do this due to the relative simplicity of the DVD standard.

With DVD, the players had both the hardware & the playback software included in the firmware. DVD discs are just a specially-arranged collection of files that the DVD player knows how to identify and play, with the menus on DVD being able to allow the user to send select commands to the player on how to play certain titles on the disc. The DVD player could thus support DVD resume since it always knew the current state of the playback software, since the software was part of the DVD player itself.

With BD-J discs, the BD player doesn't actually have playback software for it. Instead, the BD player runs a Java Virtual Machine, which then loads the Java playback software from the BD. This Java program then handles all off the playback, including resume, if programed into the Java software. The BD player itself can't handle resume, since it doesn't know the state of the Java software, it just executes commands received from it.

So with BD-J discs, it's like complaining that the PS2 doesn't allow you to automatically resume a video game automatically from the point you ejected the game, like with DVDs, instead of relying on the video game's own save method, if available at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray...ftware_support

Really? I think every DVD player I have had had that feature. Usually it remembers the last 5 or so discs that were in the player.

You've probably either bought higher-end players than I have, or buy certain brands that have the feature standard on all models. I think Sony has had this feature standard on their players for at least a few years now.