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Posted by mdnightman on 07/17/07 01:53
On Jul 16, 1:51 pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:
> On 7/13/2007, mdnight...@gmail.com posted this:
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> > On Jul 9, 12:57 pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 7/08/2007, mdnight...@gmail.com posted this:
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> >>> Anyone knows if Samsung DVD player could memorize video position even
> >>> after turned off. If so, how?
>
> >>> Thanks,
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> >> In my experience, most players memorize the stop position by default.
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> >> If you want the player to forget the stop position, you are normally
> >> prompted to press stop a second time.
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> >> I think some players do and some don't keep that memory after shutdown,
> >> and some players have memory for more than one disc, so you could
> >> remove a disc and still start from the stop point when you reinsert it.
> >> This also varies among players.
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> >> If you own the player in question, you could experiment easily enough.
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> >> --
> >> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
> >> letters617blochg3251
> >> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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> > Thank you, your answer is very accurate. I always thought:
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> > STOP + POWER OFF = STOP + STOP
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> > Luckily, my recently owned Samsung DVD player could remember position
> > with STOP + POWER OFF. Otherwise, I would really miss this feature
> > from the old Panasonic one.
> > This makes me wonder why some DVD players even have an extra "Position
> > Memory" button on the remote just to do this.
>
> Different engineers and/or interface designers have different ideas. Of
> course, it's nice to be creative, but I think that users could stand a
> bit of consistency :-)
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> Sometimes it might just be yet another case of the NIH syndrome (not
> invented here). Sort of "I want to do it *my* way", where "my" means
> belonging to the particular design group in question.
>
> OTOH, the position memory button (which I've never seen) sounds like a
> great idea - very clear-cut, for a welcome change.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
> letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
I just looked at some new Panasonic DVD players, they don't have the
"position memory" button anymore!!
I have 2 old Panasonic ones with that button on the remote.
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