Beauty in DVD Menus

>The Rocky Horror Picture Show DVD opens with the iconic lips welcoming you to the DVD. After which you’re presented with the main menu, where a disembodied pair of legs wearing heels and fishnets walks in, kicking around one of the menu items, which begins flipped the wrong way around. The extra features are numerous and play into Rocky Horror’s cult status. Some menu options are accompanied by a large switch which animates when flicked. Throughout much of the menu the lips continue speaking while songs from the film play in the background. The 16:9-only portion of the screen is occupied by red curtains, which slide in and out again when ‘Play Movie’ is selected.

Wow, the Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive DVD menu is thrilling, chilling, and fulfilling!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2000 DVD Menu walkthrough (Disc 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s3h_NCl9sY

The end credits kick:

https://youtu.be/1s3h_NCl9sY

When Tim Curry died, I went looking for the fishnet stockings bootleg Rocky Horror Picture Show source code I found decades ago in the MIT-AI Lab's HUMOR directory. I finally dug up this old archive where the body was buried:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its-vault/blob/master/files/humor/...

Right there along with the rest of the original AI:HUMOR; directory:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its-vault/tree/master/files/humor

I used to love the iDVD - part of Apple's iLife (I think?) - that let you make your own DVD menus for your home-made videos.

I used it exactly once though, when I made a DVD for our high school. But I looked like a wizard.

...I see last release was _2024_? Is this... correct? Wow. I would have guessed 2014.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/106536

edit: oh no, it's just wrong date on the page. Last release was 2011. Yeah makes more sense.

in the history of technology, I can't recall anything as universally bad as the DVD menus. What a terrible mess. The only thing this had to do was highlight something when you pressed a button, and it was utterly incapable of doing that.

The player could decode high quality MPEG2, but it couldn't let you select a freaking item.

Ugh and don't get me started on setting up languages and subtitles...

I get the love for vinyls, I get the nostalgia for 8-track tape cassettes. But you can't just miss everything from the past. This truly and totally sucked.