It has been awhile since the last Couch Tv update and I wanted to provide some updates as to what’s coming in the next update.

Color

The dark grays are gone

And are replaced with a orange and red gradient

Video screen

The video screen has been completely redesigned from this:

to this:

There are quite a few things that have changed here

• Preview button
• Play button has text only
• Centered the title
• Removed text no one looked at and moved the description to the info bar
• Moved the progress bar to underneath the title
• Removed the poster image (sort of)
• Added movie frame(s) as background images

Preview

Clicking the preview button will randomly pick out a 30 second clip from the video and play it. This feature is great if you aren’t quite sure what you are in the mood to watch and want a quick “preview"

Video description

The video description and poster has been added to the Tv info bar

Background

Before the video is loaded to pull frames, the background color is changed to a gradient to try and match the major colors of the poster image:

If you haven’t finished watching the video, the frame as the video pause point is displayed as the background causing the poster image to fade out:

One main benefit of displaying the paused frame is that the transition from the static background to the video player isn’t as jarring to the user:

For any videos that are not in the continue watch list, multiple frames from the video are downloaded and are presented as a slideshow:

This update is compatible with tvOS 9.2 and I hope to have this update out in the next few weeks

Thanks for reading