[mikeSiLVO]

Wow Mike, what a generous perspective to take on all this. You rock.

My little hypnosis joke aside... here's some discussion. My personal ideal would obviously be text onfocus only, and I like text on the poster more than under it, and I like the amber color slightly more than white. The IMDB rating I could take or leave. The thinking is, for me, that I can generally tell just fine what the movie is just by looking at the poster thumb but having the title pop in onfocus could be helpful at times. Also the text and gradient shadow coming in makes it clearer where the focus is.

If you can manage to hook into dialogvideoinfo that would be super if only for consistency's sake. Plus I'm all about Cinema Experience and looking up extended info on actors and such, having dialogvideoinfo be the last step before pressing "play" has a lot of value IMHO.

OK all done "voting".

I like jokes, can always use a good laugh. Yours as well as uncertaintys gave me a chuckle My opinion on the best way to handle all of these preferences (so far) would be to have compact as you described and expanded have the labels and rating always there for quick perusal. I can not think of a better way to accommodate all the different opinions. I do however realize that some will not get there exact way but it is impossible to create something loved by all, I can only do my best to achieve as many satisfied users as I can. I will always be open to changing things in the future, unless it is something I truly love but even still a good idea can easily overshadow one of mine maybe