You can have three new views. Discuss.

I was just wondering if I missed feedback from djh somewhere or if the new items he has introduced are the result of this thread.

Can someone let me know or better yet can djh respond?

Thanks in advance,
smack

Elements of this thread, certainly. The Kaleidescape thing was never going to happen as it simply doesn't conform to XBMC's current feature set, the typical formatting of its scraped information, or the functions available to its skins. You could make something that looked similar, but the sort and cross-fetching functions that really validate it can't be done.

If you really want to see that kind of thing in XBMC, first you need to wait until it's passed its next milestone, when the team will be more open to feature requests. If - and it's a big if - such functions get introduced, you'll then need to help standardise the scraper sources so you have consistent info and syntax for things like movie certificates, cast and running time. Only then could someone really create a view that worked reliably in the fashion you describe. Elements of it exist in XBMC but are too localised to really come together.