Creating a DVD Style menu but to play on a media player?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but guessing it's the right crowd to ask This may be a really dumb question, I've done a quick search online but struggling for a solution/direction?
Task:
1. I need to create a menu system to play on a media player connected to a HD TV. As it's likely more reliable, less time consuming to make and more portable than DVD (including the player itself).
2. So, I still need to be able to have a menu/chapter system to access the media I have created. Basically, same as a DVD but playing a file on a Media Player connected via HDMI to any widescreen HD TV.
I have seen a cheap media player that plays a broad range of files like TS files etc, so know accessing some ripped DVD's menus using the media player's remote maybe possible? But I want to create everything from scratch. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Notes:
a. I'm creating projects in Final Cut Pro x/Motion and can use Encore (now that DVD Studio Pro is dead). I have Compressor too.
b. I'm not too clued up about compression, but I ideally want to export out of FCPX in the best quality and does it then matter about PAL/NTSC, can I keep everything better quality if I'm not having to compress it to author it to DVD.
It seems like a weird void area because DVD is slowly dying, whilst I have the need to continue having that same experince of the cool menu/chapter system? Hmm! Hope that makes sense? Long Day!

Thanks so much for your reply! Yea, this is what I've researched so far, but I'm looking to try not compress to MPEG2. Smaller text looks pixelated when saving to DVD.
I noticed that Encore outputs BlueRay and can save out as a folder, but not sure how this works from the standpoint of how the media player would treat it?
I'm really surprised I can't find any articles or workflows relating to different ways of doing this? Guess I'll have to go it alone and report back if nobody has attempted this?

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