Menu Text Rollover Possible?

Question

I am a classical musician, and I'm creating a DVD of my work to send out to managers and potential sponsors. Towards that end, I've put together an iDVD project using the "Reflection Black" Theme provided within iDVD. For the most part, I'm quite happy with the results, however I am concerned that the way I've got my three musical selections laid out is not foolproof from a user navigation point of view. For a button shape, I'm using the leftwards-pointing arrow (from the Bullets sub-menu in the Buttons section). Here's how my menu of video-recorded musical selections is laid out, using the "greater-than" symbol as a stand-in here:
1. Brahms
2. Berlioz
3. Beethoven
My concern is that when the main screen comes up, the viewer will see these three composer's names, but not necessarily immediately understand how to access the three musical selections. If the user drags the pointer in the precise area of the buttons, they do appear in order, which I think indicates fairly clearly how to make the selection "hot" and thus "selectable". But I'd like users to be able to select the menu items without having to point to such precise spots, or at least find a way to indicate exactly where they should point. In this latter regard, I tried putting a "box" of text underneath the list of composer's names, saying "Click next to composer's names to play selections", however this didn't work well with the way the opening screen of the theme rolls out. The theme roll-out is rather nice; it starts with the video I've put in the drop boxes cascading by, then my name fades into view, and then the composer's names fade into view. But when I include the box of text, it appears on screen right away with the scanning drop boxes, before my name and the composer's names transition in.
The format I'd like to see, if possible, is for the composer names to change color and/or enlarge when the pointer is rolled over the composer names, like a standard hyper-link in a web page. But any and all ideas and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Tony

Answer 1

First off, the hyperlinks on web pages are much more advanced than what is allowed in the DVD specs.
With DVDs you have an overlay that contains the changing part of the buttons, in this case the "greater-than" buttons. The overlay is very limited. There is only two levels of anti-alasing. This means that any sort of curve (type has a lot of curves) is going to come out very "jagged". This is why on DVDs that you might own/rent, they never highlight the text in the button. Typically, you will see either an underline or some sort of simple graphic next to the text. Go rent a movie tonight, any movie, and you will most likely find thats true.
Now with DVD SP, you can highlight the text, but as mentioned above you really do not want to do that.