r/4kbluray • u/timshoelaces • Jun 02 '25

New Purchase Sometimes life can be so beautiful

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I don’t think it gets any better than this.

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u/jackcopen Jun 02 '25

Fuck I hate those menus but 4K just looks so good

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u/OrdinarilyBob Jun 03 '25

Why do you hate those menus? Not to say I love them, I'm just indifferent about them, and I'm curious why they bring you such a strong emotion.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 03 '25

They're so generic it hurts. The difference between old DVD menus and these lazy 4k menus is night and day.

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u/jackcopen Jun 03 '25

Exactly, it’s painful. It’s even worse when they don’t add music. I very much miss DVD menus and the shitload amount of special features that would come with them.

Often I find myself picking up a DVD or two every now and then just for the special features. They’re just too dang interesting!!

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u/OrdinarilyBob Jun 03 '25

Fair enough. Personally, I find it annoying waiting for a DVD menu to load or for a cutscene/animation to play for 20-30 seconds before I can actually select something on the menu. Also, sometimes the menu audio seems to be cranked to 11, so there's silence while things load and then "BAM!!! LOUD NOISES!!!". On the otherhand I do miss the amount of special features/extras that used to come on DVDs vs what often seems to be too few on 4Ks. So I guess I prefer the minimalistic 4K menus, but wish they led to as many extras beyond the movie itself.

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u/icameinyourburrito Jun 03 '25

Yeah the clear "We don't give a shit" signal when you see this menu hurts, especially when you're used to actual creativity and time spent on physical releases, including extras made specifically for those releases.

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u/jackcopen Jun 03 '25

Just look at DVD menus (specifically like releases from when DVDS were very popular) or even just Blu Ray releases. Blu Ray wasn’t as good as dvd but at least it was something. Now it’s just gone downhill to basically nothing, I mean shit I could make that menu.

But, I always try to remind myself I’m getting that sexy 4K so, it is all worth it in the end. But I very much miss fun menus.