[TheYetiWakes]

This is the standard now. All additional info (poster, plot, etc) can be found by pressing "i". It used to be duplicated in both places, but several folks preferred to not have it on the pause screen. There's a discussion about this somewhere in this thread.

Oh right, that's a shame but as small quibble really. I agree you don't need all the info that was there before but a small pause icon or progress bar/time would be handy, especially with livetv.

Perversely the info that pops up with 'i' I always thought was excessive. Especially as it looks odd duplicating the channel icon on both the top and bottom bars.