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altering a menu of said stored presentation with inserted material.
inserting material into said stored presentation.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of transcrypting from a first encryption scheme to a second encryption scheme suitable for said NMS.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said menu altering step comprises inserting a logo as said inserted material.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said menu altering step comprises inserting said material that depicts a product.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said menu altering step comprises inserting a preview as said inserted material.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said menu altering step comprises inserting a computer readable file as said inserted material.
8. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of transcoding said prerecorded presentation stored on said storage device from an MPEG program stream to an MPEG transport stream which is stored on said storage device.
9. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of selecting additional material based upon user preferences for inserting into said stored presentation.
10. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of selecting additional material based upon said stored presentation.
11. The method of claim 2, wherein said inserting step comprises inserting material into a menu of said stored presentation.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of selecting additional material based upon user preferences for inserting into said menu of said stored presentation.
13. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of selecting additional material based upon said stored presentation.
transmitting at least a portion of said stored presentation from said storage device to one or more other set-top boxes, wherein said transmitting step comprises transmitting at least a portion of a first version of said stored presentation to a first set-top box and at least a portion of a second version of said stored presentation to a second set-top box.
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising the step of PID remapping at least said portion of said second version of said stored presentation to said second set-top box.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein said transmitting step further comprises transmitting at least said portions of said versions simultaneously.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein said transmitting step further comprises commencing the transmission of at least portions of said first and second versions of said presentation at different times.
18. The method of claim 17, said transmitting step further comprises transmitting said portions of said first and second versions of said presentation concurrently.
19. The method of claim 14, wherein said transmitting step further comprises commencing the transmission of said first and second versions of said stored presentation at different times.
20. The method of claim 14, further comprising the step of inserting material into said first version and inserting other material into said second version.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising the step of selecting said materials for insertion based on user preferences of said first and second set-top boxes.
22. The method of claim 20, further comprising the step of selecting said materials for insertion based on parental controls established for said first and second set-top boxes.
23. The method of claim 14, further comprising the step of differentiating said first and second versions of said stored presentation based upon program identifiers.
24. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of retaining at least said portion of said prerecorded presentation without altering said at least portion of said prerecorded presentation.
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