By rights you should be down behind the sofa jabbing the remote-control rewind button and never getting beyond the opening titles.
During the download, video can be watched but transport controls (rewind, fast forward) are disabled – so I waited for the completed download watching.
It's essentially going to be an online VCR: you can control playback, rewind.
All it takes is a television remote control with rewind capabilities, a cursory knowledge of the rules and the phone number to a given tournament's host course.
But if you slide your finger down and then across, you can move at different speeds, allowing you to advance or rewind with increasingly fine control.
When the clip is playing, he can wave a palm at the screen to call up the controls to rewind the video or turn up the volume.
In one sequence in both versions of "Funny Games," when the heroine shoots one of the home invaders who are torturing her family, and she seems about to escape, the other attacker grabs a remote control and rewinds the film to prevent that from happening.
I don't think the movie achieves its aim, especially when Haneke uses alienation effects like the smirking young psychopaths talking straight to camera, or one of them taking a remote control and rewinding the film to eliminate a scene of the wife successfully fighting back.
While using PIP, there are still controls for rewind, fast-forward, pausing and returning to full screen.
As to whether you like the choice to use the directional pad over player controls (play/pause, rewind, fast forward) may come down to personal preference.
