Add option for blur of background in certain locations

[arrbee99 1550]

Normally I'm not a fan of blur over backdrops, I want to see my backdrops in all their glory, however I feel it could enhance the Home page and Movie / TV pages to liven up the background a smidge if desired (and hence be optional).

 

e.g.

 

 

 

[Luke 36991]

A dyanmic blur such as this is something that would never make it into all apps because not every device has the horsepower to render this sort of thing on the fly.

 

The only way it could work with every app would be to just skip it and use something pre-made the blue radiance background.

[arrbee99 1550]

Fair enough. I shall bow to your superior knowledge.

 

Perhaps there could be a few, I dunno, different radiance backgrounds, or a 'use the following saved blurry image library' backgrounds.

 

Am sure you've got a lot of stuff higher up the list though

[Luke 36991]

You can find lots of good ones on Google images. See if you can find any. Maybe if there are some really good ones we can think about using them.

[arrbee99 1550]

You're right -

 

 

but most look really good to me.

 

I imagine it would be best to 'roll your own' to avoid any copyright issues though.

[Luke 36991]

Most of those will be too intense when you actually try to put movie posters on top of them.

[ebr 14898]

And also, they sometimes don't render that well on all devices - looking "blotchy".

 

Android TV does actually have a few themes that use a different color variation of the Blue Radiance background for a bit more "flair".  The default theme (dark) is plain just to be sure it has a broad appeal and gradient monochrome (black/gray) images like the above tend to show that blotchiness the most..