Half the fun of watching a movie you have control over is having the control over it. VHS players and cheap DVD players have always had frame advance and slow motion features in both forward and reverse. The Panasonic BluRay BD6O is one of the few BluRay players that has frame advance or slow motion at all - but not in reverse - forward only. What good is slow motion if you cant go back to find what you wanted to see in slow motion (or frame by frame) in the first place. The backward direction takes you all the way back to the beginning of the chapter. Why is it that now when we are paying hundreds of dollars for new BluRay players and so much for BluRay DVDs - we have less control over what we are viewing?