App background - poll

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Which HDHomeRun app background do you prefer?

Poll runs till Mon Aug 04, 2025 7:26 pm

I prefer the blue background image the app had up until last weekend.
17
68%
I prefer the new near-black background we are testing.
8
32%
 
Total votes: 25

nickk
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App background - poll

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(If blue the blue background image is preferred we will follow up with another poll with possible variations of the blue background)

Cabal
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Post by Cabal »

The current colorless one makes it looks like something is missing. My $0.02.

Ken.F
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Post by Ken.F »

I like the blue background during the day but I prefer the black background at night. How do I vote for that?

Justin.U
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Post by Justin.U »

The blue background in larger title cards are better for people that have bad eyes or poor vision this new setup you did makes it very harder to see the title card and with the black background it's much harder everything's things like it Blends in now I hope you will go back to the old way so it's much easier for people with poor vision or bad eyes.

AlbumMan
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Post by AlbumMan »

Just voted. Now can we have a poll on the animated splash screen?

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Post by tjp »

AlbumMan wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 5:59 am Just voted. Now can we have a poll on the animated splash screen?
I second that motion :D
My opinion is it just delays the loading of HDHomerun. It serves no purpose.

NedS
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Post by NedS »

A new splash animation is being worked out that will be a shorter, loop-able animation, only playing for as long as needed.

billmich
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Post by billmich »

since the change to black on the app, my home run primes no longer work on LG TV's.
Now there isn't an app per se, but I can select a prime as a source.

this used to work, now it does not

might be related, or perhaps not.... just wanted to provide the information

craigwillie
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Post by craigwillie »

I now have the black background but the show titles only take up the top 2/3rds of the screen.
2 rows of smaller tiles. This is on an Android TV install. With or without the advanced features toggle on.

Is this expected?

On my Android phone I get the 2 rows like in the past

This and the smaller fonts make it very difficult for those with low vision to use HDHomeRun.

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Post by danieljlevine »

I’m not sure where to feed this in, but why do you have green/black corporate app logo and a red/blue colored splash screen. And now you are deciding on a blue background, which is fine, but they kinda clash to my eyes. However I was thinking you’d keep your green logo for icon recognition and use a green/yellow color scheme, perhaps. The black background makes more sense to my eyes.

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