"Die Another Day" DVD
Interactive Menus
April 2003
The first
review copies of the "Die Another Day" Special Edition DVD have been
sent to the trade press - giving us the first look at the interactive menus and
graphics.
The "Die Another DVaD" experience beings in the same
way as the previous 19 special edition DVDs - a computer generated graphic animates
on the screen with a pulsing "Activate" button. The viewer is launched
into the main navigation system through an icy CGI gun barrel.
The overall
theme for the DAD DVD menus are dark blue backgrounds with feint ice patterns
and electric white computer generated graphics. The familiar dot-dot Morse code
pattern is subtly included in most of the menu screen designs.
The main
menu navigation revolves around a 3D CGI satellite with the menus rotating around
the axis and will be familiar to owners of any of the previous 007:SE DVDs.
Each
section of the DVD menus has a slightly different look, ranging from a blue-green
ice texture (sound setup) to three dimensional glacier texture (special features).
A 2D computer-style style menu pod controls the selection of 36 scenes.
Due
to copyright restrictions MI6 can not show the DVD menu graphics, but our friends
at DVDAnswers.com have published a special page with a selection of screen shots:
DVDAnswers.com
Thanks to DVD Answers for their assistance with DAD DVD coverage. 
