Resume Feature on Apple TV?

[dnelms]

Still looking for answers before I purchase the Apple TV. Can you reliably expect to stop a movie at any point and come back to that movie at any time and pick up where you left off? There are so many times I need to stop what I'm watching and resume it later, so this is a big issue for my decision. I should mention this would be for movies in m4v or mp4 format that I have encoded my dvd's.

 

[Alrescha]

Yes, the Apple TV will prompt you to choose to start from the beginning or resume from where you left off.

A.

 

[Irishman]

I know streaming content does.

I haven't tried it for bought DVDs on my PC via Home Sharing.

 

[nwcs]

Anything playable in Apple TV will offer you the option to resume or start over. And I noticed that the marker is actually not exact but like 1-5 seconds before you hit pause. I personally like that, too.

 

[From A Buick 8]

It also works with more then 1 ATV. I can start in the bedroom stop it and move to the living room and pick up where I left off.

 

[kirsch92]

I don't believe it's the ATV that manages that resume point, but iTunes instead. If you watch the movie for a while on your computer than move to the ATV, the resume point moves too.

 

[kolax]

Yeah, really handy feature.

The fast forward when streaming content sucks on the Apple TV (well does on Take 2), so I usually have to open iTunes, skip to where I want, sync and then resume on the Apple TV.