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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 ... IliwSsmc
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