Remember DVD menus?
Its a niche art, like music videos. Tomb raider had the planet set as the dvd menu.
>>221156390Blu Ray menus having no style or character kind of feels like an early case of enshitification.>This isn't the late 90s anymore. We don't have to make this look cool just to please you. We've got your money, now fuck off.
2000-2010 or so, they actually put a lot of effort into them, especially the early years, the menus were actually one of the selling points to list on the back
https://youtu.be/fb5vW-c4UL0?is=uD2DOT9pCizQwf08
>>221156422Way more niche than music videos. Will be completely forgotten by time if they were ever experienced in the first place.
>>221156390Get off tiktok faggot
Some dvds even cockblock you if you pause the movie so you cant even enjoy a freeze frame. I had Michelle trachtenberg in eurotrip in the slideshow for years and to think that some company would stop that is unacceptable!
>>221156390oh yeah this one had the explore hogwarts thingit was cool
>>221156469???
The first time I saw adverts before the DVD menus, like VHS's had, I knew it was over.
>>221156425Kinda related. I remember my heart sinking when I first got a video game with a single piece of paper instead of an instruction manual. I quickly told myself caring about that was stupid, but in retrospect maybe I was nooticing the death of our civilization's SOVL.
>>221156390yesanother reason along with dvd commentary that I dislike netflix.
>>221156506>The first time I saw adverts before the DVD menus, like VHS's had, I knew it was over.Same, when I first went to the movie theater and they showed a fucking car commercial before the previews.
>>221156422>Tomb raider had the planet set as the dvd menu.imagine having to walk all the way to Abu Dhabi to press the motherfucking play button
The true loss is the often excellent behind the scenes documentaries for films. Now they're usually barebones, and are entirely excised from streaming.
>>221156444like all novel things there's a burst of innovation and creativity when corporations are forced to compete for market share, once they have it they back off on the effort and put in the bare minimum.
>>221156598Im Going to look at.what that stupid planetarium thing is called.
>>221156425Blu Rays also often have terrible cover art even compared to DVDs of the same movie
>>221156609All of the extra content around the movies themselves has been sparse in modern times which is sad. Things like these had soul:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKOswBe8ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGv6XxVS8G8
>>221156645>the poster, used for the VHS box
>>221156708>the DVD
>>221156715Mouse dude on the left is having a chortle knowing retards will pay a pretty penny for a lazy blu-ray release.
>>221156629It's an orrery.
Now we have "popcorn buckets".
>>221156540Back when, one of the draws to the Ultima® games was you would get a nice 10x12 cloth full color map, huge instruction manual with all kinds of lore and creature data and trinkets like an ankh or moonstone etc al. I always felt that THAT was what made people want to buy the game, instead of just pirate it. You get more and have more of a collectable than just the digital pixels
>>221156645What's funny is that now the DVDs have the simplistic no frills designs. It's like they're shaming you for choosing the "inferior" format.
>>221156842it's not that horrible come on you're blowing it out of proportion
>>221156698>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKOswBe8isunironcally better than the actual movie
>>221156868>etc alInteresting choice of words. Stealing this like a nigger in a bike shop
Oh, I remember.
I do.
>>221156390The only good thing about the sequel films.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyy2dQmLbns
>>221156868that you majulaar? I know you post here fag
>>221156390There was a Star Wars DVD release that had scenes from the film turned into the different menus. Little cumbersome but I appreciate the effort.
>>221156715The VHS cover is no doubt visually better but the DVD cover is also good because it's a trojan horse. Parents think they're buying their kids some sterile woodland rodent friendslop but little do they know their little ones are about to be exposed to raw unfiltered kino.
>>221156390sure
>>221156598When I was a kid that’s just how you did it. Fucking kids these days.
>>221156390>put in an old DVD>3 minutes of unskippable ads for other DVDs and previews for movies that already came out>previews end>menu loads with a 10 second choppy animation with earrape sound effects>go to audio settings>another shitty animation>back to main menu>shitty animation>press play>shitty animationI do not miss this.
>>221156425Menus are now basic jpeg background with lame menu.No cool edited clips of the movie under the menu. No stylish menu layout. No thematic cohesiveness.Just cheap shit.
Effort is gone.
>Move the GLOW to the BATT'N
>>221156390Zoomers don't remember this, but people used to hate DVD menus for being overproduced pieces of shit. People just wanted to watch the movies, not have to sit through using a sluggish menu.
Going to sleep while watching a dvd and then waking up in the middle of the night with the menu looping but you're too tired to turn it off so they music just keeps playing over and over in the background of your dreams wishing it would stop looking until it annoys you enough that you turn it off
>>221156459I remember Shrek 2's talent-show "minigame".
>>221159414Fucking A.
>>221161117We call those people NPCs and they're why everything sucks
>>221160033do people really not know how to skip that shit on DVD's?menu button or next button. One or the other usually works.
>>221156425>enshitificationreddit term for midwits who can't think for themselves
I watched Pineapple Express on my PS3 and it came with a wallpaper for the PS3. So I could look at Seth Rogen while thinking about which game I want to play next.
>>221156842>>221156598The giant mechanical model of the the planets called an orrery. Thank you! They used the movie set as a very intricate dvd menu with lots of features. It even has jon voight and Jolie hugging!
>>221156857Dr. Sleep should have had rose the hat fuckable face!
>>221156715>Endorsed by rex reedMust be pretty good because that guy hated everything
>>221156390Yes. I remember their ugly animations that were unskippable. The interface was unresponsive as well and it'd take you ages if you wanted to set up special features like commentary. Don't forget the baked in ads for other movies or even products. It's so bad people would rip the movies onto multiple CDs even if they owned the DVD. Thanks YIFI!
>>221162267enshitification might be reddit but seems like a pretty accurate term to me. How is it for midwits that can’t think for themselves? What has actually gotten better in the past 10 year?
>>221156422Music videos are still getting made
Let me guess, a youtuber made a video about this exact topic
Sometimes if you went to a certain word and pressed the right direction, you'd be able to select something in the environment for a secret deleted scene /bonus video like an old commercial or message from the actor/director I remember national treasure had a puzzle within the extras, where watching each bonus video would give you parts of a code, then you'd need to find a puzzle box in the scene like fuckin eye-spy and input the code somehow. DVDs we're only around for a little while but they were fun while they were most relevant and companies gave a shit
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>>221162673Millions of the working class only have access to the music on the radio and are unable to appreciate the visual element of a song. Gessafelstein's pursuit has an amazing music video but it will go unnoticed because they only listen to songs. Even trying a new artist is a herculean effort. Do it. Try to watch interpol's lights music video. Tell me what you think.
>>221156868They do this today but they just call it "ULTIMATE EDITION" or "COLLECTOR EDITION", and charge 120+ bucks for it
look how they massacred my boyhttps://youtu.be/48Vb4Y4bzqA?is=v9-5TYb7lEJj9O28
>>221162774a certain man who made a certain video about brown bricks in minecraft only did that video because of a dvd menu
>>221161341As a kid I was really disappointed that half the options didn't actually have their own footage, just a prince charming thinks the win is a joke and declares himself the winner ending shared between half the cast
>>221161341>>221163989Only Shrek/Fiona, Puss in Boots and Donkey were valid choices, if you picked anyone else, celebrity guest Simon Cowell throws it out and declares himself the winner
>>221156390Yea. But its better now to have no menus at all so I can just watch the movie because that's the whole point. Stop having fucking nostalgia for absolutely everything god damn
>>221156390SOVL
>>221156506The first time I saw anything related to LotR was in the ads at the beginning of the Spy Kids VHS
I spent way too much time in 2012 creating menus for my mkv collection. I even made them for movies I didn't like or even watch.
I remember the van wilder dvd had a menu where a chick would remover her shirt when you choose an option, Truly a golden era
>>221162654that guy is just angry and desperate for replies. you shouldn't respond to such obviously baity posts. unfortunately being outraged is more likely to get a reply than being earnest.enshittification is real and ongoing and the death of culture.
>>221156390Yes, DVD menus and DVD special features were PURE SOVL.
I remember really liking the Elf menu.
>>2211563904K/ blu ray collector here. The main menus on these things are abysmal. Just zero effort. The menus on these things used to be part of the fun
>>221164124Enshittification is sadly very real. The standards for literally everything have been decreasing for a while now.
>>221161117and now I miss the effort
>>2211563902000-2006 dvd menus is a lost art and lost media.Same goes for easter eggs.
>>221161117We didn't know how good we had it.
>>221164355remember when they had actual easter eggs like hidden links and stuff. time and thought went into these. they had whole creative teams just for the menu.my LotR DVDs are a treasure.
Lads. What do you think of upscaling DVD players?Most Blu-ray transfers are garbage, but on the other hand DVDs are low-rez. Could it be the solution?
>>221161059PUT THE TEEVEE REMOTE UP YOUR BUNGHOLE
>>221161059BROWN BRICKS
Signs DVD menu scared the hell outta mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboxZO5zDmI
>>221166541ZAMN
>>221168015Ah yes, the hot air balloon scene
>>221156390Yeh
You can get lost in it tho
The loss of the BTS features is the real tragedy, the 2000s-2010s had every film get great looks into how they were made. They still exist for most major releases but rarely as indepth as they were.
>>221169213
>PLAY MOVIEyou need more?
china disc
>>221162654I think Cory Doctorow (basically reddit circa 2012) personified coined it, but who fucking cares? Most of the "reddit as buzzword" shit is about post 2016 reddit guys anyway, even if a lot of the larger aesthetic sensibilities carried over.And more importantly, he's right!
van helsing
My friend recently showed me the DVD menu of his copy of the Princess Bride where the menu selection is the characters climbing up the rope (they change if you loop over the top or bottom of the meny), but there are so many home video versions of it I can't find it online.
>>221165152>easter eggsSome of those were good.Very few DVDs made use of the multi camera angle feature.
>>221169648I liked his book about being immortal and using kudos as a currency. Never got past the first chapter but it was free on frostwire, I think.
>>221168450Some Mormon kid os jacking it to this because he has no porn.
>>221169573They didn't even bother to pay someone to watch the film and put logical chapters in. They invite piracy.
>>221169832I read his Little Brother series when it came out, and it's almost endearingly reddit. In the second book he goes on a page long aside about the wonders of cold brew coffee and then plays D&D with Wil Wheaton at Burning Man.
I never updated my copy of EquilibriumStill amazed you can click the DVD options in VLC
>>221163844Tech support! I want to wake up! Its a nightmare! It feels like a playstation 1 game and an anime from the 00s. Witch hunter robin and some unknown squaresoft right like saga frontier! The song even sounds like the beginning of the wretched automatons from nier.
>>221169865Neato. I do t hate reddit as much as others, the formatting of clicking on each comment tree is awful though. Will Wheaton was really popular with that vr book also.
>>221169925When Ready Player Two's audiobook with him came out, a guy I knew set up a bot to loop it endlessly so we could just hop in at random and listen to it.
>>221169868Equilibrium was so kino
>>221169967Why would anyone do thatThat was probably the worst book I ever read
>>221160096There's no point in spending money on elaborate menus and extensive BTS features when the disc will sell the same (unless it's something that's been constantly re-released) regardless. The physical market is dying out. It peaked in the mid/late-00s, which means you're 20 years past that.In 2023, Mario was the best selling BD/DVD release of the year in the U.S. It grossed $22 million: https://web.archive.org/web/20250117152312/https://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/packaged-media-sales/2023In 2013, Despicable Me 2 was the best selling BD/DVD release of the year in the U.S. It grossed $170 million: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203030452/https://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/packaged-media-sales/2013
>Star Trek TOS and TNG have sweet Blu-Ray menus designed to feel futuristic>All other spinoffs have basic JPGs of the cast or title ship as a menu backdrop>NuTrek probably doesn’t even have thatA good reflection of how Paramount views the IP.
>>221156390Do they still make special features or Director's commentaries? I enjoyed the tidbits and fun facts they would share I don't even know where to find them anymore.
>>221170261The greatness of Trek DVD collections are the extras. Pure soul.
>>221170186>Both illumination slop you can follow on muteEach generation is getting dumber than the previous because parents feed their kids garbage food and garbage movies.
I got too used to them and when something came out with just a static menu picture and nothing else I was let down, I think it was a Conan the Barbarian release.
>>221156390you guys do realize that in a couple of thousands of years people will dig up harry potter books and it will be treated and will start a religion just like past harry potter stories from the desert spawned the shitty big three?
>>221169868What was the bonus material?
>looping video on menu spoils movie
>>221162267You post just enshittified my board. Delete it! DELETE IT NOW!!
Trying to watch the Simpsons DVDs is absolutely miserable because of the retarded nested menus and animations you need to go through just to select an episode.
>>221162284I’m so sorry you had to experience that.
>>221171234Spam the home button (works on some season) then select either play all or play all with commentary. You can then spam the scene select to get to the episode you want, if you just wanted one
My wife's family watched the animated menu of the first DVD they owned for 20 minutes thinking that the movie just sucked
Did people really go into the menu to watch a specific 10-20 minute "chapter" on their dvds?
>>221171349It was a way of fast-forwarding close to the point where you last stopped watching you broccoli headed simpleton.
>>221156588yep normal-ass non-movie ads between pre-show and movie was a huge hit to my morale
>>221156842>laser cut wood model orrery kitwant want want
>>221161177>go to sleepover>watch the Recess movie on pirated pay-per-view>everyone falls asleep during the movie>it ends and cycles through the PPV preview repeatedly>i get up and try to shut it off but idk where the remote is and the whole setup is a giant TV stand with a dozen different devices in it>end up laying there for 2 hours listening to TJ detweiller describe summer vacation and principal prickley trying to end it
>>221171685I thought we were supposed to be the ones with short attention spans. Yall cant finish a whole movie either?
>>221162809>companies gave a shitshame the fucking politicians had to keep bailing out their friends, creating an environment of zero accountability among big corporations
>>221164294bum bumba bum bumbum ba-bum bum bum
>>221171282are they stupid?
>>221156842Ask what the Great Conjunction is.
I remember 20 years ago passing out from booze and waking up to the loud, replaying menus of 40 Year Old Virgin and Freddy Got Fingered.Don't miss drinking.
>>221170414it's so nice raising kids that can watch an older, wordy movie without squirming or bitching
>>221171859they're normalfags so yes
>>221171837No, back in the day most movies were too intense to watch all at once, due our delicate boomer constitutions. Even in the 90s, films like Jurassic Park were released in the theaters as serials, broken up into several parts, to make them safer to digest. I still don't understand how you can kids can manage to "binge" or "marathon" more than 20 minutes of cinema per sitting.
>>221171837i know people who complain about attention spans but are the kind of person to miss half a TV show because they flipped to another channel the moment ads came on, or wander off mid-movie to do some random household task claiming it suddenly can't wait
>>221156390They're cute, but anyone acting like they are important are just nostalgiafagging.
>>221172089Sad but true. In an ideal world, inserting the disc causes the movie to play immediately with zero bullshit in between, and the option to see a menu ("cute" or not) later if you really want to. Showing a menu by default turned out to be just an invitation for smallhats to inject more advertising garbage.
>>221172089can't let people enjoy anything, huh?>AN OBSESSION THREAD DIED FOR THIS!
>>221171919Same but with a vhs tapes and autorewind.
>>221172089>talking about thing is BAD!
>>221169844>Some Mormon kid os jacking it to this because he has no porn.gosh i hope not!
>>221172219I'm middle agedMuch rather shoot the shit about the good old shit than pretend to care about nu sloppa
>>221172324>>221172219Feel free to read my post again.Every single thing from your childhood doesn't have to be maintained and repeated forever.
>>221171349People apparently still do this because I've seen people bitch when pirate rips and shit don't have chapters.
>>221171349It was for when you only want to watch a specific nude scene
>>221172652It was a neat thing and it didnt get replaced with something better. Its like saying led displays are better when if one malfunctions, it cost thousands of dollars to replace.
>>221172797Before YouTube if you needed to watch a scene you had to skip around on the dvd. Same with jacking it.
>Novak crashes out the door of Bam's parents house>everybody laughs>*jackass theme plays*
>go to bonus features/extras>bloopersaw yea kinodo they even do bloopers anymore?
>>221172652Ok
>>221156390Lost had the coolest ones for each season. They were so atmospheric.
>>221162267> stop calling us out goy it makes you 6 7 cringe nocap
>>221160033Just make a whole iso backup with makemkv and drag and drop it into VLC. The menu loads up instantly and you can always rip the individual tracks to mkv later.
>>221165297My opinion depends on if you're talking about movies or TV shows
My parents never bought me any video games so I'd play the scooby doo dvd minigame thing at my aunts
>>221172652Feel free to read MY post again.Are people allowed to enjoy stuff or must EVERY thread be shillshit?
>>221166541Look at him go!
>>221156390The menus on my misplaced Buffy DVDs had really long-winded animations.
i fell asleep during a Sideways rewatch once so the DVD menu played for like 7 hours straight while I was sleeping. When I woke up I felt like I was insanethis is the song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVjmPn6hmSw
>>221175410This is legit triggering. Knew nothing about this til I watched the YouTube video about it, and it still pisses me off
Yeah, sometimes.
Nothing will top thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSznJol16pM
>>221175962Classic Anno
pushing 'play movie' on the Jurassic Park DVD menu scared the shit out of me
>>221157530the absolute GOAT
>>221156588I miss the days when the only ads you'd get before a movie were static image voice-overs for local businesses that showed before they even dimmed the lights.Now I have to deal with 20 minutes of fucking bank commercials before the trailers even kick in. It's shit.
>>221156569Netflix has it, its alternative audio channel stuff. Just dont get paid for it so actos/directors dont bother
>>221176160>I miss the days when the only ads you'd get before a movie were static image voice-overs for local businesses that showed before they even dimmed the lights.Even that is too much. For us, it was just the stupid movie trivia slides. The only allowable ads are for the concession stand.
>>221164124>HUEHow appropriate.
>>221176196>it's not too late to head to the snack barIt always was.
Does anyone even watch DVDs any more. I'd like to burn some, and make it so if you leave it in and running, there's a screamer on the main menu but hard-core pornography. Kids movie DVDs, leave them in people's garage sales so the person who buys it thinks it the garage sale people
>>221156469did wittle boomer go boomboom in his diapey wipey?
>>221176282>It was always too late.And now it always will be. When theaters began losing their edge against home media and the internet in the 2000s, they could have decided to reverse their policy of decades of hostility against their own paying customers. But no, they doubled down on being assholes, and the experience has only gotten worse in every way.My wife will never again suffer the indignity of hiding outside candy in her purse, like we're criminals trying to sneak heroin into prison. No, not when the Blu-ray will be released in a month, for less than the cost of 2 tickets, and we can watch it in the comfort of our own home, with superior A/V, more comfortable seating, unlimited food & drink, a pause button for bathroom breaks, not a single fucking commercial/ad, and no rowdy black teenagers except the ones by daughter is "dating" in her room on any given night.The theaters might still have served a purpose for special releases that served as social events for, uh, "like-minded" people in small towns, but we don't live in one of those towns, and anyway Hollywood doesn't make the kind of movies that we can get excited about anymore. So sorry about your job Robert, but we look forward to your theater being bulldozed for something more useful, like an Amazon warehouse or a landfill.
>>221171175A short promotional interview with the cast and director, and a director & producer commentary you can enable for the movie
Damn I love the Harry Potter movies
>>221156390Remember Easter Eggs? Every time I see 664, I think "You want 664, the bloke next door," from an Iron Maiden DVD Easter Egg.
>>221158932Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fOpgd1hciYMatrix Revolutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQawJIqgut0
>>221156390So any top edition blu rays still do it? I would think Disney would
>>221156390I have the "loop" sound of DVD menus etched into my brain, even thought I can't think of how any specific one exactly went. I can just somehow hear the sound of a DVD menu fading out, ending, then fading back in as its own unique audio aesthetic in my mind. Real ones will understand what I'm saying.
>>221156868the worst thing is that it takes so little to make you appreciate whatever you bought more. just getting a simple sticker or a mini poster when i buy a record makes me want to support the label or band even more. but no almost no one gives you shit. just jews cutting corners where corners can be cut.
Honestly gave movies a memorable vibeThe soul has been stripped from literally everything
>>221173522Why does it matter? Anyway: movies.
>>221172045I see you've met my mother.
