Indeed Robert but that assumes you are leaving the computer on whilst you go to work for a day or sleep during the night What is required is some form of DVD player software that will give the option to start at the place where you left off or from the start Some do it, some do not , windows media player is the latter sadly I use an old copy of PowerDVD 5 but can't locate a copy anywhere, the later versions are all demo versions and appear to be time limited before you have to pay for them Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > The Pause button can be used to stop the DVD.