Moovida Core media player

Immersed Media Center view

Two big changes have landed since our last, albeit acerbic, look at the player: a new ‘theme’ and the introduction of ‘Moovida Immersed’ – a beautiful 3D interface for browsing your video library.


Having ditched its buff gray and familiar Banshee layout for something a bit different Moovida has moved away from looking like nothing more than ‘Banshee for Windows’. The players controls have been moved to the bottom of the app window, a ‘genre’ pane has wiggled into the filter pane and a deadly black colour scheme tries to exude ‘slickness’ but, in all honestly, just looks naff.

The gold is in the ‘Moovida Immersed’ view. This super slick 3D animated view runs full screen and is designed to be used with an apple remote (of all things), although navigation with a keyboard still works if you’re wanting a quick play around. The screenshot below doesn’t quite capture just how fluid the interface is when browsing – if you have Windows knocking about on a partition I highly suggest giving Moovida a whirl.


Moovida is currently in Beta for Windows. Download from moovida.com