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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 821970" data-attributes="member: 67412">Re: AW: PureVisionHD (16:9)Let me deal with that first, as that's just crazy talk <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> It's very easy for users to accidentally press the wrong button when navigating menus and they shouldn't be left with a missing cursor (not really the right word but you know what I mean) because they accidentally pressed right. Imagine me trying to explain this to someone &quot;OK, well if the cursor disappears you probably accidentally pressed right and you just have to press left or up, which will make the menu jump to Pictures regardless of where you were when the cursor disappeared&quot;.Well it is tricky because a) the user might not have intentionally pressed right so won't automatically realise they need to press left (or up) and b) pressing left (or up) doesn't take them back to where they were, but jumps to Pictures.I still don't see any need to go right to the video window/music cover. Remote users normally have a button assigned to switch between Fullscreen and GUI, whilst keyboard users can press X. I don't have any experience with touchscreen, but I assume such users just touch the area and don't need to navigate right as such, but even if they do I don't think that justifies making the interface so problematic for the remote/keyboard users (who I'm sure must be the majority).That's a reasonable design choice but it doesn't result in a missing cursor and the user can clearly see what's happened when they've pressed left from within a menu.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doveman, post: 821970, member: 67412"] [b]Re: AW: PureVisionHD (16:9)[/b] Let me deal with that first, as that's just crazy talk ;) It's very easy for users to accidentally press the wrong button when navigating menus and they shouldn't be left with a missing cursor (not really the right word but you know what I mean) because they accidentally pressed right. Imagine me trying to explain this to someone "OK, well if the cursor disappears you probably accidentally pressed right and you just have to press left or up, which will make the menu jump to Pictures regardless of where you were when the cursor disappeared". Well it is tricky because a) the user might not have intentionally pressed right so won't automatically realise they need to press left (or up) and b) pressing left (or up) doesn't take them back to where they were, but jumps to Pictures. I still don't see any need to go right to the video window/music cover. Remote users normally have a button assigned to switch between Fullscreen and GUI, whilst keyboard users can press X. I don't have any experience with touchscreen, but I assume such users just touch the area and don't need to navigate right as such, but even if they do I don't think that justifies making the interface so problematic for the remote/keyboard users (who I'm sure must be the majority). That's a reasonable design choice but it doesn't result in a missing cursor and the user can clearly see what's happened when they've pressed left from within a menu. [/QUOTE]

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