Sir Dan ---- unfortunately, I don't have a BD of Inception. My copy is AVCHD
I'm leaning towards there's something wrong with the disc. We have 2 Inception BDs, both have the exact same issues on the samsung at the exact same spots. I'll post the time stamp later if it happens again.
It will happen again.
I did some googling for you, and it turns out that Inception is a problematic disc. Skipping, freezing and audio drop-outs/sync issues have been reported. The speculation is that it's the Extraction Mode branching that's causing playback issues.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/175120537http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/306692/inception-blu-ray-skipsIt plays fine on PS3 and Panasonic.
But Samsung and LG have problems with it, and firmware updates don't solve it. We can now add CD-R King to that list.
Another thing. Does the resume function work? sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Oddly enough, it works on the Inception BD, but on The Dark Knight and Scott Pilgrim, it doesn't. It's all I ever tested up to the wee hours this morning. I press stop once then play again and it goes all the way to the beginning of the disc. There's no option for it in the settings. I've tried bookmarking which seems to work.
That's the Java authoring.
If the disc is not Java-enabled, the player can easily stop and resume.
But if the disc is Java-enabled (BD-J), the disc will be controlled by the Java software and not by the player, unless the Java authoring allows some player functions to work.
Resume is difficult to implement on BD-J titles because stopping the disc also stops the Java. When you press play again, the Java reloads and takes you back to the starting point.
You'll know when the disc is a BD-J if you see a small animated icon on the center of the screen during start-up while the disc is loading. The animated icon indicates that the Java software is currently loading on the player.
Bookmarking is Java's solution to its inability to resume. But of course, it's still not the same as a simple stop and resume function. Many users complained about it and wondered why such a simple feature can be done on all DVDs, yet can't be done on the supposedly high-tech BD-J.
The latest Java solution is the one that cues the last scene when you press "stop". When the disc is played again, the Java reloads, then goes to the cued scene. But it still takes a long time because you'll still have to wait for the Java to reload.
