I like this changes so far. It's very close to the views I've used for years, and I also think its very close to what many new users might expect and want. This goes a long way of making Theater View a bit more friendly for newcomers. Well done!
One thing I noticed was the Default of Television on the second roller on the main menu. When I hear television I think of TV tuners. Not Series or TV Shows. But I know this is because you've unified recordings and the TV guide. So, I have no problem renaming it and delete the Tuner stuff. Other than that, you have a view for Recently added, Series View, Genre and Season. It's the common things you might expect to find. Good!
What I love:
1. You have manged to get a good set of default views for both Series and Movies
2. The Unification of the different media types is in my opinion logical and good, for those that use the media types in the default view. Others can just delete what they don't need.
3. You automatically go to the second roller item you used last, on the main menu
4. You've added the option to remove the ALL items on EACH view independently, and it's removed on most items default. This will surely help new users and me. AMAZING! Thank you, thank you. Now, my ONLY "all" wish left, is to have an option to disable the Play all button on the first roller. It is mighty dangerous for people not used to MC.
What I don't like / Bug:
1. The mentioned "Play All" option on the first roller
2. As a result of the Love item number 3, above: You will always end up on the second roller menu item that you last played something from. This is an annoyance when you browse through more items on the second roller, and do not play anything. During my testing I played a movie, and then started checking my Series views. Each time I vent back to the main menu, I popped right back to "Movies". When you exit a view, you should always remain on the item you had selected originally.
3. Theater View still flickers when a playing item is changing. This is not looking good. I had hopes that some of this changes would fix it. But no.
A Bug(?):
4. Somehow, my second roller bars don't show up all the times, and the More, Playing now items on the top roller is sometimes missing. Is this just me? I hope so. It would be terrible to have a different setup here than the rest of the views. So, I've reset the views several times to find a pattern here:
- First time you enter Television, the first roller have the top Views and the back item. The Second roller have the views/items for the selected top view. All good.
- If you get the Full info view on one episode, and go back, everything is as normal. All good.
- If you change second roller View, enter a Series/category, everything looks good. You can go back and the items is till present on the roller. All good.
- The NEXT time you enter the Television menu item again though, the second roller is gone, no matter what view is selected on the top roller. NOT good. This is probably a bug.