Ranting about user interfaces

Man, what's the deal with DVD menus? I swear, somebody should make it a legal requirement to put a warning label on a disc, stating clearly how long it's going to make you wait before you can watch the movie on it. I think it's safe to say that NOBODY (at least, nobody I respect) has ever bought a DVD because of it's fantastic menus.

Suppose you want to watch your movie;

1. First, pop it in and watch your mandatory unskippable FCC warning
   
2. and then one from Interpol (unless you're a pirate- only paying customers have to put up with them).
   
3. If it's a Disney disc, you watch some advertisements. Maybe three or four trailers for other Disney discs.
   
4. The main menu begins displaying. 15 seconds of crazy animation and gratuitous excerpts later, you can pick "play"
   
5. Once you click play, there will be some more animations as the menu decides to leave.
   
6. Finally! Now I can watch a tree get struck by lightning, and then the statue of liberty winks, a lion roars at me from the middle of a gold seal, some helicopters fly around a giant "20th century fox" statue, somebody says "Sit, ubu! Sit!", and you're actually watching a movie.

I'm not saying this is a big problem in my life. I'm just suggesting that if two movies were beside each other on a shelf, and one was labelled "Movie can be viewed after only 15 minutes of crap!", and the other says "Playable within 5 seconds!", well, it might create the kind of market pressure that fixes these sorts of problems. As it is, it's a crapshoot every time. Sure, you had to rewind VHS tapes, but to compensate, you were also allowed to fast forward.