Start point on BD+ titles- won't happen until it is broken?

[iansilv]

I love theatertek and anydvd because I can set a start point- ie the start of the movie- and just click the play button and have it jump right to the movie without any of the trailer/warnings/bs. But- is it true that without BD+ dead and gone, this will not be possible on blu ray disks?

 

[johnk]

On a related note, PowerDVD never remembers where I left off watching a movie. I have it set to prompt me on each launch about whether to resume, but it always starts at the beginning... what a POS.

 

[iansilv]

Thats a limitation of the supposedly "advanced" technologies known as HDi and BD-J. You'll find it works perfectly on non-BDJ Blu-rays and on regular DVDs. But all HDDVDs use HDi so no luck there.

HDi also prevents you from doing frame-by-frame. These limitations exist on hardware players too btw. Its not PowerDVDs fault.

Wait a minute- are you saying we will never be able to just start the movie like we can with theatertek and regular dvds?

 

[andy o]

You have to use the Bookmarking feature from within the disc's menus. Most HDDVDs have bookmarking and newer BD-J discs have it too.

Note that as of right now the majority of blu-rays do not use BD-J so you can still resume them just like a normal DVD.

This has nothing to do with BD+ by the way.

This is really a case where in order to give us "advanced" features they took away basic ones.

Crap, I couldn't care less for the "advanced" stuff. I am also annoyed by this. So bookmarking will let you jump right away to the bookmark? I guess you'd still have to eat up the warnings and even skip some commercials before you can even get to them, since they are in the menu.