Hey bmasters1, welcome to the board.
How about when there’s two options on a menu. One is yellow, the other orange - which color is the highlighted option color? You just have to choose randomly, then half the time try to back out of the dumb “how to draw this character” or whatever and go back and choose the one you really wanted. Then try to remember which color is the highlight for next time.
Also, I adore Firefly, but the DVD menu sucks. You have to navigate something like three layers of menus, each with animation and music, before you get to watch the episode.
Thanks! I hope to have a very enjoyable stay here.
Whoa! That’s a pretty powerful “resurrect thread” spell you have there TBG. I wondered why the hell I was being email to say a thread I’d subbed to had been replied to - that’s because it’s five years old.
I didn’t resurrect it, I just said hi to the new guy who did.
I was talking to the new guy who did 
What’s really annoying are any ads or previews at the beginning of the DVD that you cannot just bypass by pressing the SKIP/TAB button. You have to fast scan to get through them. And sometimes it’ll only let you fast scan until you reach the next ad or preview, then you have to press scan again. Aarrghh.
HBO series are the worst. It’s seriously at least a 5 minute-10 minute music video promoting ALL HBO series that you. cannot. skip.
At least it’s only the first disc of any set and not every one.
Does HBO think that the money you paid for purchasing one of their releases (like “Raymond” for instance) is never enough? Is that their rationale for hitting you with all those ads?
Or could it be that they mistakenly believe that since you liked one of their releases (again, for instance, “Raymond”), you’ll like everything else they put out?
HBO put out the DVD of Raymond? I did not know that.
That’s right! “Raymond” is short for “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
I figured that part out, I just didn’t realize HBO had anything to do with the show.
Hate hate hate DVD menus that are designed by the same people who think Web site menus are a good place to show off their Flash skills. If you’re movie is so cool that you need to share music and dialogue during menus, have at it … but don’t make me wait through it all before you bring up the choices and let me select something.
Again, you’re right-- I’ve seen the closing credits a few times, and there is a logo for “HBO Independent Productions.” That’s one more way that HBO had something to do with it (outside of releasing it on DVD).
Amen!
Lynch’s note in the DVD for The Straight Story indicates that he believes movies should be watched all of a piece and not in chapters. I guess that’s the explanation.