As has been noted, there is no longer any textual depiction of the names of movies, within a home shared library, on the iPad. There is another option for those who manage their video library on a Mac and share by way of home sharing. In iTunes, on you serving Mac, select and start to play a movie. Somewhere during the first couple of minutes (usually, but there are exceptions, such as The Tree of Life in which the title isn't presented until mid-credits at the end), the name of the movie will be displayed. Fast forward to this point if you wish. Pause the playback. Within the frame presenting the movie, Control - Click to bring down the contextual menu. The bottom choice is Set Poster Frame. The Poster frame is the frame of the movie that is shown in the iPad video list. However, there may be a better way, especially if the title graphice is small. Again, reach the title frame and pause, but this time take a screen shot (Command-Shift-4). Get Info for the movie at hand, and proceed to the Artwork tab. Drag the screen shot into the artwork space, and there you have your title image for the iPad.
Many cannot understand how Apple seems to screw up these things that are so essential to smooth use. I highly suspect that Apple's Product managers are engineers, within an engineering group. Truly effective product management is a marketing function - it is the marketing folk, those closer to the consumers, who should be writing the commercial specifications for these product, which includes user interfaces and product functrionality. Too many people think of marketing as sales. Marketing involves product concept, superficial design, cost parameters, and much much more before the engineers get to do their magic of making the product that marketing has defined as what the marketplace wants.
