The reason you don't see a large Scene Selection is becuase it would point out two major flaws in the Blu-ray spec. 1. If the disc is HDMV (not java) then the interactive graphics are limited to only 256 colors for everything. This means if you enlarged your thumbnails the size of HD your graphics would like web pages from 1995 2. This is a 16Mb cache even for java discs for the interactive graphics. Large thumbnails for a movie with 30 chapter points would eat that cache very quickly. That means it may not be possible you can believe that! Sony dumbed down Blu-ray so that movie discs wouldn't actually compete with game discs.
Who says the movie scenes have to be done with interactive graphics? BD-J can overlay over the top of any video clip. It should be quite straightforward to include a scene selection track and use BD-J to loop / skip within that track to show 20 second clip of each scene.
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The reason you don't see a large Scene Selection is becuase it would point out two major flaws in the Blu-ray spec.
1. If the disc is HDMV (not java) then the interactive graphics are limited to only 256 colors for everything. This means if you enlarged your thumbnails the size of HD your graphics would like web pages from 1995
2. This is a 16Mb cache even for java discs for the interactive graphics. Large thumbnails for a movie with 30 chapter points would eat that cache very quickly. That means it may not be possible you can believe that! Sony dumbed down Blu-ray so that movie discs wouldn't actually compete with game discs.
Who says the movie scenes have to be done with interactive graphics? BD-J can overlay over the top of any video clip. It should be quite straightforward to include a scene selection track and use BD-J to loop / skip within that track to show 20 second clip of each scene.
Thats just plain wrong. This can easily be accomplished with the Blu-ray spec if authors wanted to.