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I had a similar experience when I popped in an old DVD of Star Wars (i.e. A New Hope) recently. If I recall correctly, there are some short clips and audio that
by allenu 2y ago
I had a similar experience when I popped in an old DVD of Star Wars (i.e. A New Hope) recently. If I recall correctly, there are some short clips and audio that play as part of the intro before you even get to the main menu, and it includes the famous John Williams theme. I hadn't seen the movie in ages, so I wanted to go in fresh, and this totally ruined the experience.
I had the opposite experience when I popped in another old DVD, this time Amadeus. I hadn't seen the movie before, but I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when it literally started playing from the very beginning of the movie. No DVD menu or previews at all. It just felt so good to go straight to the story.
- blacksqr 2y agoYes, a pet peeve of mine is when a DVD plays the movie's opening theme music when the menu is displayed. Why play music that you're going to hear again immediately as soon as the movie starts? Why not play some soothing music that comes midway through the film instead of the opening bombast? For a menu display?
- philistine 2y agoI 100% believe those menus were made for TV walls at retailers. I tell you, the number of times I saw The Matrix DVD menu playing on a loop at a Wal-Mart.
- ssl-3 2y agoWhy not play nothing? Back in the day when I still used DVDs, I used to strip the soundtrack from the menus and play the resulting backups. I never felt that the absence of annoyingly-looped background noise and chatter in any way lessened the movie experience.
- m463 2y ago> I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when it literally started playing from the very beginning of the movie. The new 4k UHD bluray movies seem to do this (or almost). and no region coding nonsense.