Beauty in DVD Menus

Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by OuterVale on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:37AM (#50006328)

I can understand the argument of simplicity and consistency for something productivity-related, or whatever, but when watching a DVD it is almost always for the purpose of entertainment. A fun and intnrnsting menu feels like part of the experience. It is a bit more of an event with all the little added flourishes.

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Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by hdgvhicv on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:47AM (#50006466)

One of the many reason I stopped buying dvds. The adverts (unskippable), the cognitive bones etc get through to the play, some disks would even have spoilers for the film.

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Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by reaperducer on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:53AM (#50006543)

Just buy them and rip them. This is Hacker News, after all.

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Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by scun on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:46PM (#50009189)

Who's ripping DVDs in 2026? Just print a photo of each frame and flick through.

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Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by viceconsole on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:02PM (#50014691)

I still rip DVDs, a few a month. No streaming services in our household, so DVDs are how we get multilingual versions of things.

And I can rip the special features.

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Re:Beauty in DVD Menus by hdgvhicv on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:12AM (#50017116)

I was ripping DVDs before most of HN had touched a keyboard. I’ve stilll got my decss tshirt.

It’s far easier to acquire them from the internet.

Piracy is a service problem.

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