BuGsArEtAsTy
02-05-07, 12:46 AM
Which HD DVDs support resume?
So far I've read it's:
Discovery Atlas: Australia (no HDi)
Discovery Atlas: Italy (no HDi)
Some music video HD DVDs but I don't know which ones.
Maxx_75
02-05-07, 01:26 AM
From what I understand no disk with HDi can have resume. They are made a different way.
It seems more and more would like to have it so hopefully they can make future releases have it...
From what I understand no disk with HDi can have resume. They are made a different way.
I read that discs can have resume, so long as it is programmed into them.
Gary Murrell
02-05-07, 07:12 AM
can't resume with HDi, a huge mistake IMHO (if it can't be corrected)
check out the LG combo player, it has no HDI, guess what? it resumes ;)
I am trying to get my hands on one to look at, HDI, extras, even menus I could care less about, audio and video of the film is all that concerns me
-Gary
BuGsArEtAsTy
02-05-07, 09:27 AM
I read that discs can have resume, so long as it is programmed into them.
I read the same thing.
BTW, what are the other HD DVDs that support resume?
P.S. I don't think it should be *that* hard to have an extra basic resume feature on some machines that just remembers the video stream playing and the audio track. Why it hasn't already been implemented I don't know. (Bookmarking isn't good enough.)
kanefsky
02-05-07, 03:15 PM
I read that discs can have resume, so long as it is programmed into them.
I've never seen a disc that's programmed to have resume. If it were possible, I think someone would have done it by now. What we have are a few discs which are authored in basic mode. Those have resume just like SD-DVDs without requiring any special programming, but they can't have the interactive menus and other features that most discs have.
Then we have some discs with a bookmark feature, which is hardly a substitute for resume. The idea with resume is that you should be able to resume watching the movie just by pressing play. In bed I use a portable DVD player and I just hit the power button if I get too sleepy. The next night I just hit the play button and I'm right back where I was.
With bookmarks it takes about 20 button presses to get the movie going again. You have to start playing the disc, wait for the menu to come up, start playing the movie, wait through all the FBI warnings and stuff, bring the menu up again, navigate into a submenu and then a sub-submenu, select the bookmark, and then exit the menu.
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Steve
BuGsArEtAsTy
02-06-07, 08:26 AM
I've never seen a disc that's programmed to have resume.
I don't see it as being absolutely impossible, but I do think it's probably a pain to implement though. Still, if a DVD player can do it, and a Blu-ray player can do it, then so should HD DVD, regardless of HDi being used or not.
I have no inside info though of course.