PokerAddict
New member
First off, I love the system and it is the best in class. With those accolades, here are some additional thoughts. Although I'm a newbie, I have studied the K system for some time, recently purchased a system and have been using it constantly. After using the system for about a month, here are some observations and suggestions.
Movie features (some have previously been discussed):
(1) a separate category for trailers not linked to the DVD title of origin.
The current method for using trailers links a ?trailer? to a movie title. For example, if you want the trailer for The Matrix, you could set up a script and then scroll to Matrix and select that trailer as part of a movie experience. This is a great feature of course, but you have to know that this trailer actually exists. You could also select the Matrix from the movie list, cover screen or collections screen and then select its trailer. What you can?t do is see a list of all trailers available for your entire collection. A "trailer list" in the collections GUI and on the Scripts web page could, however, come from 2 sources. First, it could consist of those trailers already marked by K for each DVD title having a trailer for that title. Second, user-identified trailers could also be added to the "trailers" collection. As an example, the DVD Running With Scissors has at least 6 trailers . One is for Being Julia. The Being Julia DVD does not have a trailer, but there is an available trailer on Running With Scissors. If I could tag the trailer (favorite scene of Running With Scissors) to identify it as a trailer, it could appear in the list of all available trailers. Another trailer is Spider-Man 3. To show this trailer, I have to create a script to separate it out from the pack and play that script or remember that the trailer is on the Running With Scissors DVD. These steps would not be necessary if I could tag that trailer to appear in a list of all trailers. This would also blend nicely with the suggestions of others of having a pool of trailers that could be randomly selected. The HD Net channel on direcTV has a 30 minute show called Nothing But Trailers. It's a great show. The K system could achieve that functionality if I could just play all or a select number of trailers, hopefully without too much step by step scripting.
(2) Some type of command that allows one to play all favorite scenes for a movie.
The current method to play a favorite scene is from the movie page itself selecting one scene and then the next, etc. I have set up scripts that are 10 steps long just so I can play all the favorite scenes for a movie. It would be nice to be able to play all favorite scenes without setting up a script, while also defaulting to the play next step ?skip? command using the select button option that exists in scripts. Perhaps this "play all" selection could replace forget scene? I haven't used that button and manage scenes from the web interface. I'm also concerned that a person may delete a scene unintentionally. Just a thought.
(3) another vote for some method of trimming favorite scenes
(4) an expandable/retractable list view of favorite scenes that defaults to a movie list. view
The current method of browsing favorite scenes shows the movie title and all available favorite scenes for each and every movie. This list is very long to browse if you have imported a number of favorite scenes and have an IR remote without the filter option. A quick fix is to list only the movie titles in the favorite scenes list and permit the user to expand the movie title to list favorite scenes for that movie. Consider that if you have only 25 movies with an average of 8 favorite scenes that?s 200 lines to scroll through, even if browsing by page use channel buttons. It takes a long time to get to the end, trust me. With an expandable view, you only have 2 pages to scroll through to locate the movie of choice. At least for me, the movie title triggers the favorite scene, not my naming of that scene. A further option would be some way to select, on the GUI, whether the entire movie list should be expanded or retracted for scrolling. That would provide the user the choice between the current method and the proposed change.
Keep up the great work on this forum, it is invaluable. Looking forward to some great new features on the next software update.
Pete
Movie features (some have previously been discussed):
(1) a separate category for trailers not linked to the DVD title of origin.
The current method for using trailers links a ?trailer? to a movie title. For example, if you want the trailer for The Matrix, you could set up a script and then scroll to Matrix and select that trailer as part of a movie experience. This is a great feature of course, but you have to know that this trailer actually exists. You could also select the Matrix from the movie list, cover screen or collections screen and then select its trailer. What you can?t do is see a list of all trailers available for your entire collection. A "trailer list" in the collections GUI and on the Scripts web page could, however, come from 2 sources. First, it could consist of those trailers already marked by K for each DVD title having a trailer for that title. Second, user-identified trailers could also be added to the "trailers" collection. As an example, the DVD Running With Scissors has at least 6 trailers . One is for Being Julia. The Being Julia DVD does not have a trailer, but there is an available trailer on Running With Scissors. If I could tag the trailer (favorite scene of Running With Scissors) to identify it as a trailer, it could appear in the list of all available trailers. Another trailer is Spider-Man 3. To show this trailer, I have to create a script to separate it out from the pack and play that script or remember that the trailer is on the Running With Scissors DVD. These steps would not be necessary if I could tag that trailer to appear in a list of all trailers. This would also blend nicely with the suggestions of others of having a pool of trailers that could be randomly selected. The HD Net channel on direcTV has a 30 minute show called Nothing But Trailers. It's a great show. The K system could achieve that functionality if I could just play all or a select number of trailers, hopefully without too much step by step scripting.
(2) Some type of command that allows one to play all favorite scenes for a movie.
The current method to play a favorite scene is from the movie page itself selecting one scene and then the next, etc. I have set up scripts that are 10 steps long just so I can play all the favorite scenes for a movie. It would be nice to be able to play all favorite scenes without setting up a script, while also defaulting to the play next step ?skip? command using the select button option that exists in scripts. Perhaps this "play all" selection could replace forget scene? I haven't used that button and manage scenes from the web interface. I'm also concerned that a person may delete a scene unintentionally. Just a thought.
(3) another vote for some method of trimming favorite scenes
(4) an expandable/retractable list view of favorite scenes that defaults to a movie list. view
The current method of browsing favorite scenes shows the movie title and all available favorite scenes for each and every movie. This list is very long to browse if you have imported a number of favorite scenes and have an IR remote without the filter option. A quick fix is to list only the movie titles in the favorite scenes list and permit the user to expand the movie title to list favorite scenes for that movie. Consider that if you have only 25 movies with an average of 8 favorite scenes that?s 200 lines to scroll through, even if browsing by page use channel buttons. It takes a long time to get to the end, trust me. With an expandable view, you only have 2 pages to scroll through to locate the movie of choice. At least for me, the movie title triggers the favorite scene, not my naming of that scene. A further option would be some way to select, on the GUI, whether the entire movie list should be expanded or retracted for scrolling. That would provide the user the choice between the current method and the proposed change.
Keep up the great work on this forum, it is invaluable. Looking forward to some great new features on the next software update.
Pete