Thanks for the feedback, Dalek.
I tried picking up from where I left off last night running the Director's Cut, and it remembered the spot -- so maybe there's something wrong with the Theatrical Cut layer on my disc.
Nothing else I can think of....
That's not the issue here, though -- these Alien discs WERE authored to kick the RESUME: YES/NO prompt up upon the next viewing of the disc, but mine seems to be wonky in that the prompt WILL pop up when I play it the following day, but sometimes it won't wait for me to select yes or no (so it...
Thanks Dick -- I may try that. I simply don't understand what's going on; sometimes the resume prompt works and sometimes it doesn't. I tried watching about half of the Director's Cut last night and I'll see if it has any issues playing back from the position I left off (I have been testing it...
Thanks Josh -- I would have definitely tried that from the beginning if I still had an Oppo (or was using my Cambridge clone), but unfortunately, the Panasonics have no such function. All memory storage gets done on an external USB piece (which I don't use) with these players.
Does it sound...
Thanks Denham; I appreciate you getting back to me.
That is disheartening to hear -- I guess I did get a faulty disc. I suppose it may have something to do with the way Disney repackaged these (maybe they took faulty Fox discs and slapped this "Ultimate Collector's Edition" moniker on it?) or...
Because I didn't pick this up when it first came out a few years back, I was stuck with getting Disney's repackaged version of this title (dubbed the "Ultimate Collector's Edition" as compared to Fox's original "40th Anniversary"), which looks like this:
I seem to be having an issue with the...