Bluray player behaves differently with DVDs and Blurays.

[Deleted User]

If I switch off part way through a DVD disk, when I restart, it continues where it left off.

However, if I switch off part way through a Bluray disc, when I restart, it goes back to the beginning.

Is this just how Bluray players work, or can I adjust the player, so it picks up where it left off, on both types of disc?

grumpycrab

No idea but the model number may help.

[Deleted User]

Sony BDP-S185.

grumpycrab

Doesn't look good...the manual says...
Playback does not start from the resume
point where you last stopped playing. , The resume point may be cleared from memory depending on the disc when
– you open the disc tray.
– you disconnect the USB device.
– you play other content.
– you turn off the player

paddyrg

BluRay and DVD are technically more different than similar, despite being the same size and shape!

A DVD is a stream of effectively unencrypted data which is easily interpreted. A BluRay effectively runs inside a virtual computer with on-the-fly in-memory decryption and support for a load of barely used Java extensions. As such, the firmware which is used in either case may as well be two different machines, hence inconsistencies in the niceties!

Nilrem

A lot of BD players require a memory stick to remember the place you got to with Blu-rays.

IIRC my Sony BDP360s does.

It's something to do with the complexity of the code that is run from the disc meaning that it's not just a case of the player remembering a simple track and time code, so I think they can/do use usb memory for that job (although our latest Panasonic player in the lounge doesn't seem to need the memory stick at all*).

Having said that if you haven't done so already, make sure the player is up to date (connect it to the internet and do a firmware check), and some BD's simply don't remember where they were regardless - I've not come across it recently on new releases, but some of my older ones always seemed to reset.

*My guess is the price of flash memory had dropped enough they just put it in, especially as it was a better class of player than my other units (I've bought 3 Phillips models for family as they are easy to make region free for DVD's and cheap, and my Sony whilst being a good player was an early Blu-ray Standard 2 models).