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Eric,
My wife is a video artist and plays with this technology all the time.
She says the menu on a Samsung DVD player will give you the option to
repeat chapters or entire movies, and I just tested our Sony DVP NC 625
and it offers the same, and it skips the menu.

I'd recommend a trip to a retail outlet, anyhow, and testing a model
with your particular DVD before purchasing, to avoid unknown unknowns
(as opposed to known unknowns, you know).

Digital video players are really cool, but chances are you'll have a
difficult time getting your commercial video OFF of the DVD upon which
it came, so as to record it to a hard drive player.  DVDs are
manufactured to thwart copying.  In fact, in our experience, commercial
DVDs seem to resist even analog copying, such as onto VHS by means of a
simple RCA cable whilst the DVD plays.

If you could author your own DVD, of course, most authoring software
will give you options regarding automatic start-up and playback
looping.

Good luck and let us know what you end up going with.

JasonJayStevens
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On 08 Nov 2004, at 3:42 PM, Mark Fowle @ INNOVA wrote:
> You might want to consider a digital video player.
>
> We have two digital video players that play Mpeg 2 files (same as
> DVDs).
> One player is a looping player that continuously plays the same video
> or set
> of videos and the other has up to 8 pushbuttons to play different video
> segments.  The video files are placed on Compact Flash cards, the
> player is
> quite small (6" x 6" x 1-1/2") and there are no moving parts.  For more
> information click on the following link:
> http://www.signal-innova.com/viewfile/FlashVideo.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Siegel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:38 AM
> Subject: Repeatedly playing dvd
>> In a follow up to my earlier question, we are considering purchasing a
>> hardware DVD player to play a commercial DVD repeatedly.  Has anyone
>> done this?  I know that DVD players can be set up to play disks
>> repeatedly, but do they get hung up at the menu section, or can they
>> play the entire disk repeatedly, skipping the menu?
>>
>> Any hardware suggestions are appreciated.

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