Has any one heard of a better UI being developed. Quite annoying to try and scroll through 800+ movies with only 2 rows and X (5?) amount of columns. When I used plex on my Fire TV it would show 20-30 movies and scrolled up/down which is much more natural I think.
Just curious what is in the rumor mill....
I have my doubts since this is the new UI that has been shown across all the new plex pass clients (from the pics I've seen at least). I think once they get filtering implemented it won't be such a chore. Also you can use the jump to letter to get near the movie you are looking for.
I personally like the interface, just would be nice to have searches and such.
When you don't know what you want to watch and you just want to scroll through the movies then it will always be a chore IMO. I know they have the jump to which is nice IF you know what you are looking for. Other than that it can take my gf and I some time to decide on a movie since the viewing is so narrow.
Honestly, with large collections that's not going to change much even adding another row to the view. We use the bumpers to go a page at a time usually with over 700 items in our movie collection I feel your pain, but that's really part of having a large collection. I think filtering would ease some of that because you could at least pick a couple genres that you are interested in.
On the xbox at least, the horizontal scrolling is more inline the what MS is doing with their ui. Notice that all the other apps do this as well (Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime). Also, most of these show considerable less at one time then Plex does since they all only let you really scroll one line at a time.
As @adamskoog mentions, the current look is a deliberate design choice - but with implementation limitations right now, the lack of filters and sorts are very hard felt on medium to large collections. We know that's a problem now. Sorry!
The hope is that the hubs also help you with this 'but what to watch?' dilemma, rather than scrolling through your whole collection. What would that type of UI need for this to be more useful in your case?
Thanks for the input!
