Patent ID: 7269543
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An audio/visual system comprising: a. an audio/visual device subsystem; b. a user interface facilitating operation of the device subsystem and selection of content; c. a rendering circuit facilitating presentation of selected content on the audio/visual system in a digital format native to the audio/visual system; and d. an emulation circuit facilitating receipt of a content selection via the user interface, determining if the content resides on the device subsystem in the digital native format and, if not, obtaining the content from another source in a format other than the digital native format, converting the content into the digital native format and providing the converted content to rendering circuit for presentation, the emulation circuit thereby facilitating the rendering of the received content by the rendering circuit as if the content was retrieved from the device subsystem in the digital native format.