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    Thoughts On 2.0 Interface

    I have to say I found the old interface (streaming, not dowloading) to be much easier to navigate and use. What do others think?

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    I have not gotten it yet on my BX100....will post when it is updated....

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      I certainly preferred the older interface. I also miss access to YouTube. Finally, my video size has also gone nuts. I set the overlap but when I watch an HD movie, the aspect ratio is distorted at 16:9. I have to change my TV to 4:3 for it to look normal. I never had this problem with the previous version.

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        Re: Thoughts On 2.0 Interface

        Originally posted by redwein View Post
        I have to say I found the old interface (streaming, not dowloading) to be much easier to navigate and use. What do others think?

        I think the 2.0 interface is much easier to navigate. I think it is a much needed improvement from the old interface. Everything seems easier to find and I don't have to go back and forth as much as I did with the old interface.

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          Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
          I think the 2.0 interface is much easier to navigate. I think it is a much needed improvement from the old interface. Everything seems easier to find and I don't have to go back and forth as much as I did with the old interface.
          The thing I miss the most is that I used to be able to just scroll along a list of movies (e.g. wish list, new, etc.) and just highlighting the movie would bring up the synopsis. Not any more. I can scroll to a movie and I have to select it to see the details. Then I have to go back. I'm not sure how you are doing less going back and forth given that. Did you find some other way of doing this?

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            Originally posted by redwein View Post
            The thing I miss the most is that I used to be able to just scroll along a list of movies (e.g. wish list, new, etc.) and just highlighting the movie would bring up the synopsis. Not any more. I can scroll to a movie and I have to select it to see the details. Then I have to go back. I'm not sure how you are doing less going back and forth given that. Did you find some other way of doing this?
            I guess it's also a combination of how it's implemented on the Boxee Box and it's remote. I haven't really used my BX100 boxes lately.

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              Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
              I guess it's also a combination of how it's implemented on the Boxee Box and it's remote. I haven't really used my BX100 boxes lately.
              I'm using the LG Bluray players, not the BX as well. What I'm talking about is a fundamental change in how you have to do extra clicks to see detailed movie info when scrolling/navigating through a list of them. I don't think it matters what device it's on. It seems to be part of the 2.0 interface design.

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                Originally posted by redwein View Post
                I'm using the LG Bluray players, not the BX as well. What I'm talking about is a fundamental change in how you have to do extra clicks to see detailed movie info when scrolling/navigating through a list of them. I don't think it matters what device it's on. It seems to be part of the 2.0 interface design.
                For me the Boxee Box remote works best with the VUDU application. Much better than using the LG remote or the PS3 remote. Even better than the BX100 remote.

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                  Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
                  For me the Boxee Box remote works best with the VUDU application. Much better than using the LG remote or the PS3 remote. Even better than the BX100 remote.
                  Does it address the issue I am referring to? It doesn't seem related. When you navigate/highlight a movie placard, do you see the movie's detailed info on the same screen? Or do you have to select it and then do some gesture to go back and highlight another movie?

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                    Originally posted by redwein View Post
                    Does it address the issue I am referring to? It doesn't seem related. When you navigate/highlight a movie placard, do you see the movie's detailed info on the same screen? Or do you have to select it and then do some gesture to go back and highlight another movie?

                    I need to specifically look at it.

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                      Re: Thoughts On 2.0 Interface

                      Originally posted by redwein View Post
                      Does it address the issue I am referring to? It doesn't seem related. When you navigate/highlight a movie placard, do you see the movie's detailed info on the same screen? Or do you have to select it and then do some gesture to go back and highlight another movie?
                      When highlighting the movie you see on the right side, the Director and actors. It also shows you the Tomato rating, the VUDU community rating, and what formats it's available on(SD, HD, HDX)

                      Now when you select the movie there are several tabs with tema in one showing and overview of the movie, running time, rating etc.
                      Other tabs are cast and crew, reviews, mor einfo that shows what resolution and audio format.

                      This is much much better than the old version. There is no way I would want to go back to the old interface.

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                        Re: Thoughts On 2.0 Interface

                        Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
                        When highlighting the movie you see on the right side, the Director and actors. It also shows you the Tomato rating, the VUDU community rating, and what formats it's available on(SD, HD, HDX)

                        Now when you select the movie there are several tabs with tema in one showing and overview of the movie, running time, rating etc.
                        Other tabs are cast and crew, reviews, mor einfo that shows what resolution and audio format.

                        This is much much better than the old version. There is no way I would want to go back to the old interface.
                        I completely disagree that it's much, much better. Every time my wife and I sit and look for a movie to watch we both keep saying how much we dislike it compared to the previous streaming interface. Sometimes you get used to things and I was hoping that would happen here. But we are getting more agitated as time goes on.

                        What I really want to see when I simply highlight a movie is the actors and a synopsis of the plot, etc. Maybe a star rating or something like that. Without the synopsis I can't tell very much about a movie at all. So every single movie I "might" be interested in I have to actually select it, read it, then go back to the list and move on. I used to be able to simply scroll through the list and see pretty much everything I needed to decide if I was interested in the movie or not. This is much, much harder to do now.

                        Anyway, to each their own. I will continue to use it and hopefully sometime just not care any more. It makes me sad because I've had Vudu since the very beginning and every step they have taken I thought was an improvement. This is the one time that I don't feel that way.

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                          2.0 is OK, but PLEASE add back the same searching function as in Amadeus - you can only select one genre at a time and if I choose any single genre it gives me an hour long list to go through.

                          For example Salt genres are classified as Action, Suspense, Crime - but I can only search one category at a time in 2.0 or Brazil.

                          This should be a simple fix IMO.

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                            For older eyes the new interface is very difficult to read and the navigation is very difficult. This "upgrade" is really a downgrade. It has me looking around for another service. Maybe Netflix will be more user friendly. I wish I could go back to the old version.

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                              Finally able to play around with the new UI, overall I like it.....I usually set it up so that when I turn my system on, I can view what movies are available to own in HDX format....If I wish to rent one, it's just a click away...Another interesting thing, I found that some movies I purchased and stored to the hard drive of the BX100 can be played offline now....It just has a basic UI with a list of available titles that can be played in this way.....

                              It's funny, I was looking at trailers, connection was lost, message came up Connection Lost to VUDU or something like that, then it changed UI and showed a list of films available for offline viewing...Connection was restored shortly thereafter and I was able to view films via streaming.....things that make ya go hmmmmmm...

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