Another Chocolate Idea

[ebr 16169]

What do you guys think about this new view for Chocolate?  It would be how you view TV series.  No more drilling down through the Series and then Seasons.  A Series would come straight here and you can get to all the episodes.

 

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

Like the idea actually, i know its only in idea stage but i would use thumbs instead of posters. Or make the posters much smaller.

 

Concept is great tho

 

Nice work!!

[WWWestern 94]

Is old mode remain as option? The new for me is too difficulty. Scrolling 26 seasons of the DW (1963) with 20-30 eps in each?! Oh no!

[CBers 7450]

Looks nice, but I agree with @@WWWestern about scrolling through multiple seasons, unless there are shortcuts.

[pagali 62]

I'm all for thinking of new ways to look at things.

 

This looks nice, but... just trying to think of potential problems. I agree that some long series might be awkward to get to the more recent seasons. Also, say you start a Play All From Here part way thru a season.. would it then advance into the next season? I don't think I would want it to automatically do that... Hmmmm...

 

I think this should definitely be an optional thing, maybe even on a show-by-show basis.

[ebr 16169]

Like the idea actually, i know its only in idea stage but i would use thumbs instead of posters. Or make the posters much smaller.

 

Concept is great tho

 

Nice work!!

 

Thumbs would take up too much horizontal space.

[ebr 16169]

Is old mode remain as option? The new for me is too difficulty. Scrolling 26 seasons of the DW (1963) with 20-30 eps in each?! Oh no!

 

What if you could expand and collapse the seasons...?

[gthrift 64]

What if you could expand and collapse the seasons...?

I'd have to see it in action, but i think it could work well of it would default to collapsed.

[HTPCity_Planner 13]

I'd have to see it in action, but i think it could work well of it would default to collapsed.

[pagali 62]

Yeah, I like that collapsible idea too!

[WWWestern 94]

What if you could expand and collapse the seasons...?

This makes sense. If per season basis and "Expand All/Collapse All" controls. And I agree with pagali about "show-by-show basis". Maybe a vision something like a "enable/disable chained mode" per user. For example, V (1983) fit "chained mode", DW - not.

Edited December 13, 2013 by WWWestern

[seanbuff 1315]

I think it could get too confusing for some with too many options, and show-by-show basis.

 

I think default collapsed view could work.

 

 

 

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[gcw07 347]

While it is a decent idea and wouldn't mind it as an alternate list type view, I don't think I would ever use it. I'm usually just interested in the current season I'm watching and don't care about all the other seasons of a show.

[chef 3810]

Nice! I will have to re work my app to load episode names at season level and figure out a command to scroll down.

[ebr 16169]

While it is a decent idea and wouldn't mind it as an alternate list type view, I don't think I would ever use it. I'm usually just interested in the current season I'm watching and don't care about all the other seasons of a show.

 

Ironically, I wouldn't ever use it either as I drive all my TV viewing off of MBPlus channels still.  But, I thought it was worth investigating if people thought it interesting.

[gcw07 347]

Ironically, I wouldn't ever use it either as I drive all my TV viewing off of MBPlus channels still.  But, I thought it was worth investigating if people thought it interesting.

Yeah, which is why it would be a nice alternative to the standard list. Not sure what you could call it. Maybe a super list or something. I've seen something similar in the HBO Go channel on the Roku. They have an "All Seasons" category. So you can select that or season 1, 2, etc.

[trusselo 225]

What if you could expand and collapse the seasons...?

auto collapse watched seasons.  what is this mbplus you speak of? Search is broken on the old community page.

 

found it. kinda. http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/11893/introducing-mbplus . 

Edited December 14, 2013 by trusselo

[yardameus 221]

I really like this.  Would it be possible to have a configuration option to "Show all Episodes in List" check box or something?  Checked shows this, unchecked shows how it is now.  This would probably make me use the list view more often, especially for a series where I'm looking for a particular episode, but don't remember what season it is in.

[gthrift 64]

Ironically, I wouldn't ever use it either as I drive all my TV viewing off of MBPlus channels still.  But, I thought it was worth investigating if people thought it interesting.

Does this mean you're still working on MBPlus?

[Pelon 203]

It looks like it would work similar to the Netflix WMC client. When you have a TV show, you have to scroll down a lot. Take for example The Simpsons, at 24 seasons and around 24 episodes per season, that would be a lot of scrolling to find something that today we can get  in a couple if clicks.

[ebr 16169]

It looks like it would work similar to the Netflix WMC client. When you have a TV show, you have to scroll down a lot. Take for example The Simpsons, at 24 seasons and around 24 episodes per season, that would be a lot of scrolling to find something that today we can get  in a couple if clicks.

 

It would still automatically scroll you to the first un-watched episode.  And, if the seasons were collapsed, it would be the exact same amount of scrolling as it is without this view.

[ebr 16169]

Does this mean you're still working on MBPlus?

 

Not lately.  I have it functional enough for me to use in my environment but nowhere near ready for public consumption.

[ebr 16169]

Okay, one more stab at this.  Collapsible seasons.  This basically replicates the same navigation that would exist now but all on one screen.

 

If people don't like this, I'll abandon this idea.  It was just something to try. 

 

 

[Latchmor 584]

All these Chocolate ideas... ebr aka Willy Wonka!

[HTPCity_Planner 13]

I like it.