Display settings on DVD player

I'm authoring a DVD for a live show. The disk has 30 or so tracks with 30 menus. ie. track one finishes and jumps to menu two untill operator presses enter etc etc.. He needs to be able to see what menu is loaded on the dvd player display.
Can anyon please tell me if it's possible to set menu numbers in DVD studio pro so they will show up on DVD player display. Using DSP 4.
Cheers.

I had a follow up thought about this, what is the advantage of knowing which menu you're on? Presumably it would be because you might be on the wrong one, and would like to know that. If you're on the wrong one, what would you do about it? Here's an idea:
Make each of your menus have three buttons, with the center one as the default. Pressing Enter would make it play the next video, and that would lead onto the following menu. Pressing the left button and then select would take you back to the previous menu, and pressing right and enter would take you forward to the following menu. This way you can easily get across to the correct menu without the audience knowing that anything had happened.
One important thing would be to make the left side invisible button have its remote control left arrow set to do nothing, and have the right side button have its right arrow action set to nothing as well. You would not want to have them cycle around, because then you wouldn't know for sure which button is currently selected. If you got into a confused state you could then press the left remote button a few times, at which point you know for sure that the left side button is selected, and then you carefully press the right arrow remote button to get back to the center invisible button.
Of course, if the buttons are near the edge of the video picture and the audience can't see them, then you could possibly use a subtle highlight color, and what I've said above wouldn't be an issue.

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