Why horizontal artwork on personal library on Apple TV?

[norbinhouston]

So when Apple updated the UI they changed the format of movie artwork to horizontal, even though it had been vertical since the beginning. I believe this was when Jony Ive redid the UI. Ruined all my artwork for my movies. Well now Apple has seen its error and switched back to the standard vertical orientation for their movie artwork, but has left personal library horizontal. Movie posters are vertical, that's what I've been using. Hope Apple switches us back. I still like using iTunes/AppleTV to stream my library to my AppleTVs.

 

[priitv8]

As far as I have seen, there are now both vertical and horizontal artwork styles available.
I use Subler to populate my metadata and it can fetch both styles.

 

[Boyd01]

When did they update the UI? I also used vertical artwork on all the movies and TV shows I've ripped. AFAIK, this has always been the same going back to the two Apple TV 3's that I got somewhere around 2015. This is what it looks like in the Computers App on my two Apple TV HD's now. I use a Mini as a media server, running iTunes on Mojave.

 

[norbinhouston]

Don't remember the exact release version, but it was silly to change it. I chalk it up to Jony Ive being his usual self.

 

[priitv8]

With horizontal artwork, it will look like in the TV+ app:

 

[snowatom]

I made a post about this ages ago. Glad to finally see, others annoyed by this.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/appletv-library-art-portrait-movie-poster-bug.2342095/

If you read my post, I discovered something interesting, whereas depending on how you watch your library, you can actually list your movies in Horizontal poster format instead of the tiny (ugly) vertical format.

 

[Boyd01]

I thought we were discussing the AppleTV (hardware device) and not the iOS app. Maybe I am making a wrong assumption however? I find the iOS TV app really poor all-around when accessing my shared library. Takes forever to load with a large library and it can require scrolling through hundreds of movies to find what you want. The biggest flaw is that it doesn't support movie/video playlists at all, they don't even appear.

The TV app on newer versions of MacOS is not much better. It shows my movie playlists, but when I click on them they are empty.