Windows 8 and Blu-Ray player

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Windows 8 and Blu-Ray player

by kaufenpreis May 23, 2014 12:33AM PDT

How can my Blu-Ray player and TV "boot up" in under a second, but my computer still takes a full minute?

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Early BluRay players took minutes to start up.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 24, 2014 1:40AM PDT

For years the PS3 held the flag for the fastest BluRay startup times.

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Yep

by Jimmy Greystone May 24, 2014 1:50AM PDT

Yep, some bright spark at Sony let Sun Microsystems talk them into using Java for the menus on blurays, so every bluray player had to have an embedded JRE which needed to be bootstrapped before you could realistically play a video.

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r. proffitt · Answer 1 · May 23, 2014 12:38AM PDT

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Keep in mind this is a well discussed area.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 23, 2014 12:38AM PDT

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/BGwlbmiDrtM for example.

The most common long boot time cause I see today is user tinkering. That is, out of the box my buddy's laptop would resume from a zero power sleep in seconds (under 5) but later it was up to a minute. Turns out he didn't believe in the zero power sleep mode and fixed it.

Some fix?
Bob

James Denison · Answer 2 · May 23, 2014 12:39AM PDT

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what does windows 8 have to do with it?

by James Denison May 23, 2014 12:39AM PDT

wouldn't that be true for any computer OS?

Jimmy Greystone · Answer 3 · May 23, 2014 9:22AM PDT

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The primary reason

by Jimmy Greystone May 23, 2014 9:22AM PDT

The primary reason has to do with limited function and dedicated hardware. What can a bluray player do beyond play videos? Nothing you say? That is exactly why they're faster to boot up.

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