Hi, Are you using a remote control when you hit the number 3 or 4 or 1 as you were talking about? Thanks.
Also, what kind of DVD player is this that you have? Terri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:41 AM Subject: Re: User friendly DVD payer > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As mentioned before that depends on the dvd itself. I'll give a perfect > example of two different tv series which have a completely different > structure. First is Friends. The way all ten seasons are set up is just > the way you would like. You start the dvd, press play once and the first > episode starts. If you press the forward button you go to the next > episode, and so on and so forth. The reason this works this way is > because what they did is make all six episodes on each dvd one large > movie for simple terms. Each episode then is basically like a chapter in > that movie. What they then did is take each separate episode and put it > on the dvd as well a second time as individual chapters so in essence, > each episode is on there twice. One as part of all six episodes together > and two as separate episodes. I believe the reason they did this was so > that one could either continuously play all episodes back to back using > the first method or so one could play one episode at a time using the > second method. I still have not figured out how to use the second method > but I have not really tried as using the first method has worked well > for me. > > Now onto the second example of tv dvd structure. I use Star Trek Deep > Space Nine series for this. When you start the dvd you are presented > with what is called the main menu for simple terms. This main menu just > has four options. Each option is an episode name as there are usually > four episodes per dvd. With most newer dvd players simply pressing the > number on the keypad and then pressing menu or play will activate that > menu item. So if I wanted to watch episode 3 on the dvd I'd press the > number 3 on the keypad and then play. This then loads episode 3 and > takes me to the episode menu. This one is similar to the first menu one > sees on a regular movie dvd. It has play, language, setup, scene > selections, etc, and lastly, return to main menu. On most Star Trek dvds > this is option 4 so to return to the main menu showing the four episodes > I press 4 on the keypad and then play. While in this episode menu I can > press 1 and then play or just play by itself and the episode starts > playing. While watching this episode it has chapters which can be moved > to by pressing the forward button, I can also use the backward button to > go to previous chapters within this episode only. > > I hope all this makes sense. > > > joanne said the following on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:24:39AM -0500: >> Raul and others: what Terri and I are both wanting is a DVD player that >> would be easy to use as far as going between episodes on, say, a TV >> series >> DVD or one like this with different chapters or episodes. With the Sony >> Raul mentions, I'm wondering if, by pressing the forward button on the >> player (not using the remote) will this take you to the next episode and >> will the back button take you to the previous? While you may think this >> a >> silly question, I'm asking specifically because my daughters have DVD >> players and they use these complicated menus to go to a chosen episode >> and >> they tell me you have to use arrow keys on the menus to find episodes and >> not just hitting a forward or rewind button as you do with CD players. I >> know DVD's are formatted different from CD's, but we're hoping we can >> simply >> use a forward or backup button without having to use menus or a remote to >> go >> to different episodes, and so far the ones I've seen don't seem to allow >> this type of ease when changing to a new show on the DVD. Not really >> understanding how DVD's are formatted, didn't know if it was possible to >> simply forward and back up with the same ease you have with a CD player. >> Hope someone can help. >> > > > - -- > That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks > you're crazy. > -- Evelyn E. Smith > Raul A. Gallegos ... 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