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[DeaneG]

11. NEW: Theater view television guide grid is color-coded according to show categories.  The following types are colored: Movies (of all genres), Educational, Children, Sports, News.

I'm not seeing any color-coding. Does it only work in one of the skins?
I'm using the Glass skin with no Theme and the background set to Black.

[Yaobing]

11. NEW: Theater view television guide grid is color-coded according to show categories.  The following types are colored: Movies (of all genres), Educational, Children, Sports, News.

I'm not seeing any color-coding. Does it only work in one of the skins?
I'm using the Glass skin with no Theme and the background set to Black.

It should not depend on what skin you use.  Did you try another skin?

What EPG mode do you use?  If not mc2xml or PercData, does it come with keywords that can tell what kind of show each program is?

[DocLotus]

It's not showing for me either with ThunderStorm skin.

My EPG is OTA with MS Rovi.

[Yaobing]

The attached image shows what it looks like on my computer with ThunderStorm skin.

[Matt]

For whatever it's worth, it's all color coded nicely on my machine now.

[BradATIMA]

It only seems to work on the Obsidian skin for me. This screen shot is showing the guide with the Glass skin. I am running 21.0.23.

[DeaneG]

It worked on Obsidian for me too. But not Noire or Glass. I'll stick with Obsidian for now.

[mwillems]

I can confirm that it doesn't work with the theater view skins set to Noire or glass here either, which is a bummer, because Noire is our daily driver (I want to see the colors!)

[Yaobing]

I see now.  I did not realize we are talking about theater view skins.

[JimH]

I can confirm that it doesn't work with the theater view skins set to Noire or glass here either, which is a bummer, because Noire is our daily driver (I want to see the colors!)

We'll make sure you do (soon).

[RoderickGI]

I see the colour coding using Obsidian on my Workstation and HTPC.

I would like to see some configurability in the future, I guess expression based so we can pick which fields define which colours. At least allowing more Genres to be coloured. Plus perhaps colours based on keywords. I would also like a little control over the opacity, as the colours are very light, and sometimes they actually get washed out by the background images. Actually the colours are fine on the HTPC, but a bit light on my Workstation.

Yaobing the Movie selection for this functionality, is it based on the [Media Type] = Video, plus [Media Subtype ] = Movie?

[Yaobing]

Yaobing the Movie selection for this functionality, is it based on the [Media Type] = Video, plus [Media Subtype ] = Movie?

[Media Subtype] = Movie

That is what we set when we see indication in EPG that the show is a movie.

[Yaobing]

The color problem for Theater view skins is fixed.

I will need to make some adjustment to the color choices.

[HPBEME]

I am probably in the minority here, but I really dislike the color-coding... it obscures the background art, which I love seeing as I scroll thru the guide.  I can certainly understand why people would like it, I'm just not one of them.  Any chance you can add a checkbox to allow users to turn off guide colors?

[CountryBumkin]

I am probably in the minority here, but I really dislike the color-coding... it obscures the background art, which I love seeing as I scroll thru the guide.  I can certainly understand why people would like it, I'm just not one of them.  Any chance you can add a checkbox to allow users to turn off guide colors?

Try setting the "Image/Video Mix amount" to strong. That may help some - until a better solution comes along.
Tools>Options>Theater View>Appearance>Theme>Image/Video Mix Amount.

[HPBEME]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I set the mix amount to strong many years ago.  I am hoping Yaobing will add the ability to toggle this off just like Windows Media Center does.