An electronic device (124, 350), comprising: one or more processors; and one or more storage devices coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more storage devices include instructions executable by the one or more processors and configured to, when executed, cause the electronic device to: determine (404, 502) one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content relative to a current streaming adaptively streamed content of the electronic device (124, 350), the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content being determined responsive to monitoring of a bandwidth condition relative to a network connection between the electronic device (124, 350) and a content delivery network, wherein the current streaming adaptively streamed content is associated with a first channel and the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content is associated with one or more channels adjacent to the first channel; pre-fetch (406, 504) metadata information associated with the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; responsive to the pre-fetched metadata information, pre-fetch and store (408, 506) initialization information for the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; and if the current streaming adaptively streamed content is changed to a new streaming adaptively streamed content, use the pre-fetched initialization information to fetch encoded media content pertaining to the new streaming adaptively streamed content. one or more processors; and one or more storage devices coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more storage devices include instructions executable by the one or more processors and configured to, when executed, cause the electronic device to: determine (404, 502) one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content relative to a current streaming adaptively streamed content of the electronic device (124, 350), the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content being determined responsive to monitoring of a bandwidth condition relative to a network connection between the electronic device (124, 350) and a content delivery network, wherein the current streaming adaptively streamed content is associated with a first channel and the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content is associated with one or more channels adjacent to the first channel; pre-fetch (406, 504) metadata information associated with the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; responsive to the pre-fetched metadata information, pre-fetch and store (408, 506) initialization information for the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; and determine (404, 502) one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content relative to a current streaming adaptively streamed content of the electronic device (124, 350), the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content being determined responsive to monitoring of a bandwidth condition relative to a network connection between the electronic device (124, 350) and a content delivery network, wherein the current streaming adaptively streamed content is associated with a first channel and the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content is associated with one or more channels adjacent to the first channel; pre-fetch (406, 504) metadata information associated with the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; responsive to the pre-fetched metadata information, pre-fetch and store (408, 506) initialization information for the one or more adjacent adaptively streamed content; and if the current streaming adaptively streamed content is changed to a new streaming adaptively streamed content, use the pre-fetched initialization information to fetch encoded media content pertaining to the new streaming adaptively streamed content.