2011-11-17, 01:17
OK, been playing with the pre-release version for a bit now.
Firstly, it looks good - the menus & screens really hang together.
Unfortunately, it's much less usable for me, unless I've missed something, the killer feature of a definable home screen has been removed
I use mostly genre selections as favourites, especially in the 'family' login. These now all end up with the same icon, all in the favourites menu. I can't use the Movies / Music / TV menu items, as these all use a default library listing which contains things unsuitable for the children.
Similarly, the 'adults only' login is now polluted with "Fireman Sam", "Finding Nemo" and "Fluffy Bunny Singalongs". Given that we have at least as many childrens' films & tv shows as we do adult, it makes finding things take that much longer.
Cheers,
Simon.
Firstly, it looks good - the menus & screens really hang together.
Unfortunately, it's much less usable for me, unless I've missed something, the killer feature of a definable home screen has been removed
I use mostly genre selections as favourites, especially in the 'family' login. These now all end up with the same icon, all in the favourites menu. I can't use the Movies / Music / TV menu items, as these all use a default library listing which contains things unsuitable for the children.
Similarly, the 'adults only' login is now polluted with "Fireman Sam", "Finding Nemo" and "Fluffy Bunny Singalongs". Given that we have at least as many childrens' films & tv shows as we do adult, it makes finding things take that much longer.
Cheers,
Simon.