User interface for audio video display device such as tv

Method, comprising:

• receiving, at an audio video display device (AVDD), a viewer selection of a content panel from a first graphical user interface (GUI);
• responsive to the viewer selection, replacing plural panels in the first GUI with an expanded panel in a second GUI, the expanded panel containing information pertaining to a video represented by the content panel selected by the viewer;
• presenting in the second GUI plural actor panels each containing information pertaining to a respective actor appearing in the video represented in the expanded panel;
• responsive to a scroll command moving the actor panels translationally across the display but not moving the expanded panel responsive to the scroll command;
• responsive to selection of an actor panel in the second GUI, presenting a third GUI having an expanded panel containing information pertaining to the actor associated with the actor panel in the second GUI that was selected, the third GUI also presenting plural video panels each representing a respective view in which the actor represented by the expanded panel appears;
• and
• responsive to a scroll command, moving the video panels translationally across the display but not moving the expanded panel responsive to the scroll command.

Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

• processor;
• video display presenting demanded images;
• computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to:
• present on the display a graphical user interface (GUI) including an expanded information panel containing information pertaining to a viewer-selected subject, the GUI also juxtaposing with the expanded panel plural first subject panels associated with subject matter of a first genre related to the subject in the expanded panel;
• and
• responsive to a viewer scroll command, translate the subject panels across the display but not moving the expanded panel.