Is it distracting to have toolbar-like box at the bottom of the page like cnet.com?

Question

I am designing a web page for playing some movies. I want user to concentrate on the video player. to achieve this goal, I thought I remove other elements and put them in a toolbar at the bottom of the page. by clicking controls at this toolbar, a window would appear at the top of this toolbar, and a form, or relating videos or anything else would be in it.just like what cnet.com has.

Is it a good idea ( from UI design point of view)? Is it a good solution for me to achieve my goal? any other idea.

Answer 1

Your toolbar idea sounds good, I would hide then show the toolbar when a user moves the mouse like most video players running in full screen. Open Windows Media Player, set to full screen and leave mouse to idle for a few seconds. You'll notice it disappears and then reappears when you move the mouse again.

This should be fairly easy to achieve with jQuery, let me know if you need a solution.