Play Now display
Shows the current film with poster, backdrop, title, year, genre, ratings, overview, progress and time remaining.
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Home cinema software
Poster Player
An elegant Now Playing and Coming Soon poster display for home cinema rooms, dedicated screens, tablets and wall-mounted displays.
Overview
A premium poster screen for the home cinema experience.
Poster Player turns a normal screen into a cinema-style display that shows what is playing now, what is coming soon and what source is currently active.
It is designed for people who want their home cinema to feel more complete: a dedicated poster screen at the entrance, beside the cinema room, near the seats or on a separate wall display.
Feature areas
What Poster Player is designed to do
The application focuses on visual impact for the room and simple automatic behaviour for the user.
Coming Soon mode
When nothing is playing, the display rotates through polished movie posters and upcoming or popular titles.
Multi-source logic
Built around sources such as Zidoo, Apple TV, Spotify and TMDB, with priorities and enable/disable control.
TMDB enrichment
Uses TMDB data for posters, backdrops, descriptions, genres, ratings, galleries and trailer-style media.
Fallback behaviour
Shows elegant fallback screens when a source is active but full metadata is not available.
Display settings
Controls refresh timing, poster rotation, scale, fade behaviour, kiosk options, clock and display layout.
Home cinema mood
Designed as part of the room experience, not just another technical dashboard.
Prepared for expansion
The structure is prepared for future media server and home cinema integrations.
Why it exists
Built to make home cinema feel more premium.
A home cinema room already has the screen, sound and lighting. Poster Player adds the missing visual layer: a dedicated display that makes the room feel like a private cinema before and during the film.
The goal is to hide the technical work behind the scenes and show only a clean, cinematic interface that feels natural in the room.
Interface screens
Current Poster Player direction
Example screens show Coming Soon, Play Now, Zidoo playback views and system settings.
System direction
Local-first, multi-source and made for real rooms.
Poster Player is planned as a local home cinema product. It is built around source priority, source status, display behaviour and a setup screen that can be simplified for customers or expanded for expert installers.
The direction includes Zidoo playback detection, Apple TV bridge status, Spotify, TMDB Coming Soon and prepared structures for further media source integrations.
Contact
Interested in a home cinema poster display?
For practical conversations around Poster Player, home cinema screens and media display workflows.