It already *does* drop frames, but I think it will still animate the "stopping". I can spin my dial in the artists menu and jump many more items than get displayed.

The hijack menu seems faster due to it bypassing the 8 frame fifo used to sync audio/video in the player (8/38th of a second). John did do some work on changing the way this worked, which did make the player feel more responsive, but I don't think it made it into 2.0

Hugo