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twesterm said:
Motherfucker.

So I plugged in my HD-DVD player tonight and started watching King Kong. There definitely is a noticeable difference and it is nice. I was actually quite surprised and quite happy. Anyways, about an hour into the movie I had to get up for a while and do a few things so I just turned my 360 off.

When I came back I expected to just turn on my 360 and start the HD-DVD and it would start up where I left off like my DVD's normally do. Boy was I surprised when I had to sit through the annoying animated menu and Universal splash and skip around to find my spot.

I was mad for a minute or two and then decided that maybe it didn't remember where I was because maybe King Kong was a pretty early HD-DVD and it just didn't have that simple capability that DVD's always had for some reason. So I pop in Transformers. I sit there for a minute or two while it says it's reading. I sit there a few more minutes while it says it's reading and decide somethings not right. I try a few different thing and nothing works.

Right as I'm about to start get really angry I open the case and notice I put in disc 2. I pop in disc 1 hoping it works (since I don't give a flip about special features) and the movie comes up fine. Yay! So I get about a minute into the movie and turn it off and on to see if it remembers my positions. No.

What the hell? Remembering where you left off when you press stop or power off the player is something that has been around since first generation DVD players so why the fuck does my HD-DVD player not have this? It has every other feature I don't care about but not this one simple feature that is one of the most important features to me.

Somebody who has the 360 HD-DVD addon please tell me that hopefully mine just isn't working right and I don't have to lose all faith in this device.

twesterm:

Unfortunatly HD DVD players and Blu Ray players both fail to support this feature. It threw me back the first time I noticed this too. I'm not sure the exact reasoning behind it but it's not there. The alternative like a few posters said earlier is that you can save bookmark scenes and go back to them later. Usually the "B" button on the remote will bookmark a scene then you can go back and start the scene from scene menu. Also be sure to check out some of the add-on features for the movies. King Kong is a little slim but titles like Batman Begins and Transformers are pretty fun to play around with. I was never an extra watcher on DVD (even though I own a rather large collection of Criterions) but have been pretty pleased with the few HD's that I own.