What Blue Ray players let you save films?

[Casej13]

Hi All - New to this so apologies if this has been covered before.
I have a PS3 that I use to watch Blue Ray films (my son plays the games!) but it is a complete pain when you have to leave a film halfway through and then try and find it again.

I have decided to buy either a Sony or Samsung player but does anyone know if they save the films position on power down? If not I will just keep the PS3.

Are there any new budget players out before Christmas that will save the film (my price range is up to about £300).

Sorry this might sound a little lazy but I have a huge collection of DVD's and miss my old Panasonic - used to remember 5 at any one time.

Thanks for your help.

[tobyfield]

I can't see why this would be a feature wanted by most people. How often do you watch a DVD and not finish watching it. Especially for up to 5 DVDs. However, my Sony car DVD stereo does this for films.

[Sampson]

Can you not just add a bookmark? Or is that a HD-DVD only feature?
I use this feature all the time on HD-DVD's and and on normal DVDs too, I think alot of people do, so I can completely understand Casej13's desire for it and am very surprised the PS3 doesn't do it, puts me off the PS3 a bit tbh.

[JagoPlasma]

Originally Posted by tobyfield

I can't see why this would be a feature wanted by most people. How often do you watch a DVD and not finish watching it. Especially for up to 5 DVDs. However, my Sony car DVD stereo does this for films.

well i miss this feature. esspecially if you have to pause a film then come back to find the players gone into standby/off

i think the ps3 does do it, but only if you power it off while the film is playing (or something like that) if you do it a different way then it starts from the beginning again.

might also be a combination of pressing play on the BR remote to turn the ps3 on. i remember my toshiba dvd player always played a dvd from last place if you turned it on via the play button but from the beginning if you used the power on button

and tbh i think bookmarks defeat the object of the OP's point. he wants something that just works, and used to be there. not something where he has to remember to bookmark something when rushing off

[Nic Rhodes]

This may well be a BD Java disc issue and not a player thing, especially on the 'advanced' authoring, it certainly is on HD DVDs.

[Goooner]

Originally Posted by tobyfield

I can't see why this would be a feature wanted by most people. How often do you watch a DVD and not finish watching it. Especially for up to 5 DVDs. However, my Sony car DVD stereo does this for films.

I definitely want it. I often start watching a movie and have to leave off half way through, for various reasons. It's really annoying when it doesn't resume from where it left off.

In some Blu Ray discs, they will resume on my Samsung but others don't (normally ones like POTC or Spider-man, ones with fancy menu screens and stuff that take time to load, so that may be the reason) some let you add a bookmark, a lot don't.

It's not just a Blu Ray problem, it's the same with HD DVD, some allow bookmarks, a lot don't.

Surely this is a basic feature that should be implemented on all players. I've never owned (and I've owned a lot) a single DVD player or CD player that doesn't at least resume the current disc where you switched it off.

[Nic Rhodes]

It is not a player issue, it is a disc issue. It was a player issue on DVD but not with these new formats, things have changed.

[JagoPlasma]

Originally Posted by Nic Rhodes

It is not a player issue, it is a disc issue. It was a player issue on DVD but not with these new formats, things have changed.

and thats a good thing? id rather the player tell the disc what to do not the other way around. publishers are taking far to many liberties. forcing to watch antipiracy warning for one thing!

[tobyfield]

The PS3 has had a firmware update today so that it can remember the place you left watching either a DVD or Blu-ray disc.

[petrolhead]

Originally Posted by tobyfield

I can't see why this would be a feature wanted by most people. How often do you watch a DVD and not finish watching it. Especially for up to 5 DVDs. However, my Sony car DVD stereo does this for films.

For me quite ofter as I always seem to fall asleep, its like a drug

[tony @ suffolk]

I agree it's an extremely useful feature, especially for us old types who suddenly realise they're going to nod off & need to go to bed!

The other day I discovered our trusty Panasonic BD10A does remember the last point of play when it's switched off; not sure it does with all discs though, the destructions don't say.

[paulr2006]

The Samsung BD P1400 also has the bookmark facility to enable you to do this however I have never tried it so can't say how good it is.

[Goooner]

If it's anything like the BD-P1000, IIRC, the bookmark feature works great, until you stop the movie and switch off the player, then it forgets all the bookmarks