Full screen recommended. The video below shows the prototype my team has produced. It included a graphic designer and several developers. It’s here to give you a sense of the interaction model I developed to solve navigational inconsistencies in most smart TV interfaces.
These wireframes below illustrate the unified navigational principles across multiple different pages. The screen is divided into a large browsing area on the right, and a consistent nav on the left, and the two update each other seamlessly, allowing users to find exactly what they are looking for without getting lost.
And here are some older wireframes that I still like:
