Yes. I’ve been upgrading to 4K UHD Blu-rays and every single one is soulless. Also whoever decided to have the mini menu pop up during the movie instead of taking you to the main menu should be dragged through town square.
Yeah they were annoying as frick, I don’t miss them, but they did have a kind of charm, like paying twice the cost of your movie ticket for a bucket of popcorn and having your feet stick to the floor in the theater, or returning movies to Blockbuster.
>Also whoever decided to have the mini menu pop up during the movie instead of taking you to the main menu should be dragged through town square.
I've never operated a blu-ray in my life. What does this look like. Post screenshots / photos of your tv.
member dvd games? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlp7D2ClNUg
Only partially related, but you've reminded me about the "full" games that would be on some DVDs. Like I remember Revenge of the Sith coming with a proper demo for Star Wars Battlefront 2 if you plugged it into an Xbox
Attack of the Clones had a demo for the original Battlefront on Xbox. It only had the Endor map but I played it so much waiting for the actual game to come out.
Yes. I’ve been upgrading to 4K UHD Blu-rays and every single one is soulless. Also whoever decided to have the mini menu pop up during the movie instead of taking you to the main menu should be dragged through town square.
The Goblet of Fire dvd menu game was peak soul but it was hard as frick to complete the quicktime sequences since most remote controls had like a two second delay back in the day
I remember only two: Lilo and Stitch had one that used those weird colored buttons on the DVD remote, where you were helping Gantu create a new experiment. And then Brother Bear had a personality quiz. I remember one year my friends slept over for my birthday, probably twelve of us or so all filled it out and then played Xbox until like 4 AM.
you can still find threads on old forums from the mid/late 2000s with boomers complaining that it takes too long to get into the movie when they put in a DVD
The fricked up thing is that blu-ray and 4k movies can have better menus, I have a few where it's not the same retextured format over and over. Publishers just don't bother because they don't give a frick, they hate the fact that people buy physical media.
They like money, but they'd much rather people stop buying physical so instead they could go fully digital and charge people $20 a month for access to the films instead.
I've actually got a couple of DVDs that don't have a menu, if you put the disk in it just starts playing the movie, and when it's finished it starts playing over again.
Yeah there was some of that earlier on, like not having both 4:3 and 16:9 on one disk. Sometimes if you bad a region free player, you could bring up a default menu though.
the other night my roommate was watching pearl harbor on dvd and must’ve fallen asleep in the middle of it. the dvd menu music drove me fricking insane.
Remember watching a DVD at a friend's house as a kid and falling asleep and letting the home screen music play for fricking hours because you were too nervous/weird to get up and turn off the tv?
> wake to the constant loop of the desperate housewives' theme coming from my sister's room > too tired to do anything about it > too annoying to fall asleep again
Remember watching a DVD at a friend's house as a kid and falling asleep and letting the home screen music play for fricking hours because you were too nervous/weird to get up and turn off the tv?
I've found most Blu-Ray menus now are very simple. Really just a menu with the movie and chapters, MAYBE a special features section. That's it. Stuff like that Harry Potter one cited not only had a lot of special features on the main disc, it had a disc two just filled with extras like minigames, galleries, deleted scenes, the Chamber of Secrets one had like 10 hours of extras not including the usual behind the scenes features.
And all in detailed animated menus.
I just bought the Harry Potter 4k bluray 8-pack and they don’t have the special features. Menus are ugly, the still photography is smoothed out so much that even Emma Watson is ugly. The dvd menus had soul, the 4k bluray are such a downgrade.
I have like 300 blurays and 50 4k blurays. DVD menus were much more creative and diverse. However they were mostly just annoying. Give me the soulless standard menu any day. The one exception is the fight club bluray. They genuinely got me with that one. Made a fool of me and I didn’t even start the movie yet lmao
Was there a single instance of the optional Pop Up Video style in movie extras that worked well? Either from a technical standpoint or general implementation. The few I ever tried were clunky as shit.
>put in DVD >slog through all the copyright warnings >minute-long cheap cg flythrough of different locations while really really loud music plays >random quotes from the movie play at random while different menu options show up >just want to play the movie >minute-long meme from the movie plays like I'm supposed to be watching a trailer >more copyright legal slog >movie plays, really quiet and subtitles are on by default
I don't miss them at all.
I remember one dvd(I think it was national treasure) had this pop-up video like feature where you could press a button during certain scenes and it would tell you about that scene or facts about the cast
You know when DVDs first hit the market, skipping through all that bullshit like ten previews and just going straight to the menu with PLAY highlighted was a big selling point
I was watching some Disney dog shit the other day and just turned it off after the 3rd unskippable preview. Fricking gay
Yeah I never got those ten minutes of previews in my DVDs back when I did buy them, I think ONE had trailers that played and you had to skip them to get to the menu. But otherwise those were a VHS thing for me but I never skipped trailers on VHSes
I had a budget DVD player that I bought from Best Buy for like 30 bucks in 2004 and it had this menu thing that made it really easy to find Easter eggs.
>Grow up poor >First get DVD player in the early 2000s >Family gathers around to watch first movie >Put dvd in player >Movie starts >Sit there for a while >20 minutes later, nothing has happened >"wtf how do we play it?" >Spend another 20 minutes figuring out you could use the remote to navigate the menu
I remember sitting and watching every one of like 16 TV spots for Revenge of the Sith on the DVD. Some of them were really bad. When I went through a DVD back then, I went through EVERYTHING.
I used to rent horror DVDs all the time as a teen and the menu where often scarier than the movies themselves
The Ring menu for example would probably creep me out even today
All those extras >learning all about Tolkien and his life, and how it influenced Middle-Earth >all the behind the scenes on the props, sets and miniatures >cataloguing the many challenges and breakthroughs made in the VFX >FOUR commentary tracks from the cast, from Jackson and the writers, from production people >including the short films from that young New Zealand filmmaker who died of cancer at like 22 and who inspired the lyrics for Into the West
Frick me
Honestly going through them just adds to it, if only so slightly. Watching something on a disc as opposed to streaming is like reading a physical book as opposed to reading on a kindle. A more fulfilling experience for a few minutes until you're engrossed and then it's all the same.
To be honest with you anon? No.
Because I always had fast internet and I always pirated everything.
First I was in a city-wide StrongDC hub made by my internet provider (lol Balkans).
And after that I've joined the biggest country-wide tracker (everyone has cheap free internet).
So I always downloaded movies in highest quality without that crap.
If I wanted to watch them on specialized hardware/players I would just google the manual, see the compatible codecs/formats and download that instead.
They fricking sucked. Nostalgiagays needs the rope >insert disc >have to watch commercials >to press "go to menu" >"operation unavailable" >watch commercials until you get to the language select screen >pick english >have to watch even more commercials before getting to the menu itself >the menu starts with a short intro clip >takes forever to go through the options and just play the fricking movie
Yes, I hated them. >Here are 30 seconds of loading to waste your time - we even did our best to recreate the CDI experience.
Shit should immediately start the movie - trailers and commercials at the end.
Yes. I’ve been upgrading to 4K UHD Blu-rays and every single one is soulless. Also whoever decided to have the mini menu pop up during the movie instead of taking you to the main menu should be dragged through town square.
I remember when DVDs came out and the attitude towards the menus was "just play the damn movie when I put the disc in."
It's the attitude of any sensible adult.
Yeah they were annoying as frick, I don’t miss them, but they did have a kind of charm, like paying twice the cost of your movie ticket for a bucket of popcorn and having your feet stick to the floor in the theater, or returning movies to Blockbuster.
>t.
>Also whoever decided to have the mini menu pop up during the movie instead of taking you to the main menu should be dragged through town square.
I've never operated a blu-ray in my life. What does this look like. Post screenshots / photos of your tv.
Remember those mini games inside these menus? There was a choose your fate type of game in Premonition, if I remember correctly
That's what I was highlighting in OP, I remember playing puzzle games and trivia games in the Chamber of Secrets DVD when I was like 12
Only partially related, but you've reminded me about the "full" games that would be on some DVDs. Like I remember Revenge of the Sith coming with a proper demo for Star Wars Battlefront 2 if you plugged it into an Xbox
>Revenge of the Sith coming with a proper demo for Star Wars Battlefront 2
it had Republic Commando too
the star wars trilogy box set came with a demo for the first star wars battlefront but it was xbox only
Attack of the Clones had a demo for the original Battlefront on Xbox. It only had the Endor map but I played it so much waiting for the actual game to come out.
there was a Doom 3 demo in the Doom 2005 dvd but I can't find anything about it online
here ya go
I once had a scooby doo dvd, came with a side scroller. It was terrible, Jekyll and Hyde tier and I liked it.
good times early 2000s and DVDs
lol literally my room right now and all those discs have porn on them
The Goblet of Fire dvd menu game was peak soul but it was hard as frick to complete the quicktime sequences since most remote controls had like a two second delay back in the day
member dvd games? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlp7D2ClNUg
frick off I made a post about it first
That is awesome.
>HP game
Anyone ever play this?
I remember only two: Lilo and Stitch had one that used those weird colored buttons on the DVD remote, where you were helping Gantu create a new experiment. And then Brother Bear had a personality quiz. I remember one year my friends slept over for my birthday, probably twelve of us or so all filled it out and then played Xbox until like 4 AM.
what’s a dvd?
PotC Dead Men's Chest DVD menu taught me how to play liar's dice
I just want commentary tracks back. I loved those.
Ha ha, shit the bed!
Well howdy folks, come on in!
>lets see... Turn offs.. Rude people, violence... Clowns? Frick..
we stopped getting awesome animated dvd menus because boomers hated it and complained
Or because most people watch their movies on streaming services
you can still find threads on old forums from the mid/late 2000s with boomers complaining that it takes too long to get into the movie when they put in a DVD
I love my old laserdiscs because they have no FBI warning or trailer shit you can’t skip.
Yeah from ads and piracy warnings, not meus
>glowBlack person put their warnings all over the beginning of DVDs
>gee why would people pirate?!
I’d completely forgotten the unskippable trailers. Shit was so gay.
you're mixing up the unskippable nonsense bullshit with extras and easter eggs
why?
because the animated menus are part of the extras of a DVD
House of 1000 corpses menu is kino
Independence Day was the first DVD I ever saw, I was amazed by the menus
Begin your journey down the dark corridor
Make way for the ultimate DVD game
First best DVD menu: The Mask
Second best DVD menu:
Son of The Mask
The fricked up thing is that blu-ray and 4k movies can have better menus, I have a few where it's not the same retextured format over and over. Publishers just don't bother because they don't give a frick, they hate the fact that people buy physical media.
>the same retextured format over and over
FRICK universal, the laziest fricking studio there is
If they hate physical why do they still keep releasing kino classics on Blu-ray versus just the top selling capeshit of the month films?
They like money, but they'd much rather people stop buying physical so instead they could go fully digital and charge people $20 a month for access to the films instead.
some dude was telling me some of the blu-rays now require you to be connected to the internet to play the movie
>interactive menu listed as a bonus feature on the box
I've actually got a couple of DVDs that don't have a menu, if you put the disk in it just starts playing the movie, and when it's finished it starts playing over again.
Yeah there was some of that earlier on, like not having both 4:3 and 16:9 on one disk. Sometimes if you bad a region free player, you could bring up a default menu though.
>leave movie on overnight
>the 15 second, poorly cut menu theme song makes it into your dreams
for me it was a pay-per-view sattelite TV channel, once the movie ended it'd replay the teaser trailer over and over again
that first Recess movie is PTSD for me
Waking up to The Omen theme paralyzed with fear.
Used to wake up from nightmares with DVD menus looping what a feverish memory
the other night my roommate was watching pearl harbor on dvd and must’ve fallen asleep in the middle of it. the dvd menu music drove me fricking insane.
I'm not alone.
Family Guy season 1-3 dvd menu clips live rent free in my brain
for me, it was DVD menu for the haunted house with eddie murphy.
I think of that episode of Idiot Abroad where he got to the King Kong menu and couldn’t get it started https://youtu.be/ZHzu5Z8HDDs @3:30
For me it's https://youtu.be/FKgKMYnY_fo
Happened to me with Donnie Darko. I was 15 years old.
LADIES LADIES LADIES JAY AND SILENT BOB ARE IN THE HIZZOUSE
my dad used to fall asleep watching star trek TOS episodes and all night you'd just hear the bridge background SFX loop over and over again...
Tos sound effects would be pretty annoying, TNG ambience is comfy tho
sound comfy
i fricked to dane cooks 2007 specials menu track for like an hour and a half because I didn't want to kill the mood and get up
> wake to the constant loop of the desperate housewives' theme coming from my sister's room
> too tired to do anything about it
> too annoying to fall asleep again
>my dad in post-divorce manic parent phase
>always SO extra excited about new shit like gameboy advance and easter eggs in DVD menus
he tried
The Ring dvd menu has a secret button that plays the cursed tape. When you return to the menu you hear a phone ring.
Remember watching a DVD at a friend's house as a kid and falling asleep and letting the home screen music play for fricking hours because you were too nervous/weird to get up and turn off the tv?
>letting the home screen music play for fricking hours because you were too nervous/weird
...no?
aren't they the same as bluray menus?
I've found most Blu-Ray menus now are very simple. Really just a menu with the movie and chapters, MAYBE a special features section. That's it. Stuff like that Harry Potter one cited not only had a lot of special features on the main disc, it had a disc two just filled with extras like minigames, galleries, deleted scenes, the Chamber of Secrets one had like 10 hours of extras not including the usual behind the scenes features.
And all in detailed animated menus.
I just bought the Harry Potter 4k bluray 8-pack and they don’t have the special features. Menus are ugly, the still photography is smoothed out so much that even Emma Watson is ugly. The dvd menus had soul, the 4k bluray are such a downgrade.
I have like 300 blurays and 50 4k blurays. DVD menus were much more creative and diverse. However they were mostly just annoying. Give me the soulless standard menu any day. The one exception is the fight club bluray. They genuinely got me with that one. Made a fool of me and I didn’t even start the movie yet lmao
>that quidditch minigame in the dvd games
I PRESSED THE FRICKING BUTTON YOU TOLD ME TO WHY DID IT GO THE OTHER MOTHERFRICKING WAAAAAY AAAAAAAH
Aah. The lord of the rings extra scenes in the menu.......
Yeah, soul...
Was there a single instance of the optional Pop Up Video style in movie extras that worked well? Either from a technical standpoint or general implementation. The few I ever tried were clunky as shit.
They're back. In pog form.
>put in DVD
>slog through all the copyright warnings
>minute-long cheap cg flythrough of different locations while really really loud music plays
>random quotes from the movie play at random while different menu options show up
>just want to play the movie
>minute-long meme from the movie plays like I'm supposed to be watching a trailer
>more copyright legal slog
>movie plays, really quiet and subtitles are on by default
I don't miss them at all.
You have to admit DVD minigames were fun as a kid.
I refuse to believe anyone found them fun. They were cheap, unresponsive and unimaginative
I remember one dvd(I think it was national treasure) had this pop-up video like feature where you could press a button during certain scenes and it would tell you about that scene or facts about the cast
You haven't played the trivia game on Little Women (1994). Talk to us once you do
You know when DVDs first hit the market, skipping through all that bullshit like ten previews and just going straight to the menu with PLAY highlighted was a big selling point
I was watching some Disney dog shit the other day and just turned it off after the 3rd unskippable preview. Fricking gay
Yeah I never got those ten minutes of previews in my DVDs back when I did buy them, I think ONE had trailers that played and you had to skip them to get to the menu. But otherwise those were a VHS thing for me but I never skipped trailers on VHSes
on the early DVDs they list shit like interactive menus and subtitles as special features
Ancient infographic that captures the butthurt people felt back then.
What went wrong?
I am just zoomer enough to remember blu-ray screens but not dvd screens.
DVD menus were sovl
I had a budget DVD player that I bought from Best Buy for like 30 bucks in 2004 and it had this menu thing that made it really easy to find Easter eggs.
I can't explain why but I loved the extras on Cabin Fever. The rotten fruit was kino as frick
I remember the rotten fruits, that was so bizarre yet kino to see as a kid
The one for the Sorcerer's Stone had a bunch of games, I remember one was just picking up the jellybeans and the English narrator did a vomit noise
Pvre SOVL
I miss em
>Grow up poor
>First get DVD player in the early 2000s
>Family gathers around to watch first movie
>Put dvd in player
>Movie starts
>Sit there for a while
>20 minutes later, nothing has happened
>"wtf how do we play it?"
>Spend another 20 minutes figuring out you could use the remote to navigate the menu
> Growing up had only a VHS until my parents signed up for a Netflix
> literally skipped DVD and Blu-Ray
Anyone else done this?
I remember sitting and watching every one of like 16 TV spots for Revenge of the Sith on the DVD. Some of them were really bad. When I went through a DVD back then, I went through EVERYTHING.
Yes, they were annoying as shit since I just wanted to watch films immediately.
Nerd
I do want to say that they were nice for the extra content/BTS stuff.
kino
What's a menu
I used to rent horror DVDs all the time as a teen and the menu where often scarier than the movies themselves
The Ring menu for example would probably creep me out even today
For me, it's the Boat Trip (unrated) dvd menu which I can't post here without getting unfairly banned by the jerk homosexual moderators.
Good thread.
The peak.
Bro, these the ones with the 40 mi ute long end credits?
I still have these
All those extras
>learning all about Tolkien and his life, and how it influenced Middle-Earth
>all the behind the scenes on the props, sets and miniatures
>cataloguing the many challenges and breakthroughs made in the VFX
>FOUR commentary tracks from the cast, from Jackson and the writers, from production people
>including the short films from that young New Zealand filmmaker who died of cancer at like 22 and who inspired the lyrics for Into the West
Frick me
>the segments detailing all the injuries to the cast during filming
Still got em
Sovl
the GOAT. woke up to that menu music a hundred times. got the blurays too but they're still sealed in the box.
Honestly going through them just adds to it, if only so slightly. Watching something on a disc as opposed to streaming is like reading a physical book as opposed to reading on a kindle. A more fulfilling experience for a few minutes until you're engrossed and then it's all the same.
>That Aqua Teen DVD set that literally played all of the episodes all at once when you selected "Play all"
?t=60
They had secret buttons on some menus. It would play weird videos
To be honest with you anon? No.
Because I always had fast internet and I always pirated everything.
First I was in a city-wide StrongDC hub made by my internet provider (lol Balkans).
And after that I've joined the biggest country-wide tracker (everyone has cheap free internet).
So I always downloaded movies in highest quality without that crap.
If I wanted to watch them on specialized hardware/players I would just google the manual, see the compatible codecs/formats and download that instead.
same here balkchad, we truly know how to live
They fricking sucked. Nostalgiagays needs the rope
>insert disc
>have to watch commercials
>to press "go to menu"
>"operation unavailable"
>watch commercials until you get to the language select screen
>pick english
>have to watch even more commercials before getting to the menu itself
>the menu starts with a short intro clip
>takes forever to go through the options and just play the fricking movie
Yes, I hated them.
>Here are 30 seconds of loading to waste your time - we even did our best to recreate the CDI experience.
Shit should immediately start the movie - trailers and commercials at the end.
absolute kino and soul, bluray and streaming services were a huge mistake
What ever happened to DVD feauteres and extras? blu ray missed discs and content, shame on bluray and streaming services
Ju On had a pretty spooky menu.