August 29, 2009

M*A*S*H DVD Menus are the best

Filed under: TV

M*A*S*H is my favorite TV series of all time and I typically watch the entire series at least a couple of times a year. One of the things that took me a while to notice was how well the DVD menus are. Each season has a different look and most incorporate scenes from the episodes in the episode sub menu. Fonts are different, they sometimes wrap to scene elements and in one case they are backwards.

I am including a couple of screen shots to make my point.

Here we see the menu tacked onto the ring and it almost looks like it should be there

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The topic for the episode, exchanging red for blue, is used as the menu. I like how they used both colors.

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This one is my favorite. In this episode Radar tries his hand at writing. I love how the font is backwards.

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It seems to me this was the promise of DVD but very few movies and TV series really make use of the available media to make each disc unique.

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