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Add a new TV Show view and use actual overall TV show banners
One thing i do not like about boxee's TV show organisation is it's use of the season 1 cover art as an overall TV show banner.
TheTVDB.com offers actual banners for TV shows.
Image 1 shows the art work used at present by Boxee to represent an entire TV show and all it's seasons
Image 2 shows the actual art work which should be used to represent an entire TV show.
In order for this to work of course, we need a different view to support the wide nature of the banners.
Image 3 shows how the skin MediaStream of XBMC displays TV shows. We need a new view (just an addition to the few we already have) which looks similar to how MediaStream shows it.
Image 4 shows why a new view is required to accommodate the actual TV show banners. This is the best view I could find to show this size of banner.
Image 5 shows how the lost banner looks in Boxee. Compare this to Image 3
TheTVDB.com offers actual banners for TV shows.
Image 1 shows the art work used at present by Boxee to represent an entire TV show and all it's seasons
Image 2 shows the actual art work which should be used to represent an entire TV show.
In order for this to work of course, we need a different view to support the wide nature of the banners.
Image 3 shows how the skin MediaStream of XBMC displays TV shows. We need a new view (just an addition to the few we already have) which looks similar to how MediaStream shows it.
Image 4 shows why a new view is required to accommodate the actual TV show banners. This is the best view I could find to show this size of banner.
Image 5 shows how the lost banner looks in Boxee. Compare this to Image 3
I’m frustrated that Boxee downloads the wrong artwork and organises it in a poor manor.
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The company has this in progress.
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Inappropriate?I think that more control of the artwork in general is needed. Some of my movies have foreign cover art, when I know that an english cover is available. I'd like to be able to "select cover art" from a set that Boxee pulls from IMDB.
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Inappropriate?ProjectMayhem uses (or used to, I don't know if it still does) the graphics from tv.com to similar effect. -
Inappropriate?I agree that we need to allow the users better control over media artwork, and we hope to be able to provide it in our next versions.
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Inappropriate?In addition you could, as a quick fix, stop using the first season as the tv show banner, and start using the poster, which is returned with the tvshow information in XML form.
XML tag: <poster>
Value: posters/80344-19.jpg
http://images.thetvdb.com/banners/pos...
This is much better than the season 1 cover at. (for now)
</poster>
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