Method for providing flexible access to additional information to a visual stream of main information provided via TV broadcast channels, Internet, DVD media or video on demand, comprising: displaying the visual stream of main information on a TV screen; determining whether additional information is available for a specific portion of the visual stream of main information currently displayed, wherein the specific portion of the visual stream of main information is a time portion of the visual stream of main information or a spatial portion of the visual stream of main information and wherein the additional information is any kind of information to be provided to a user when viewing the visual stream of main information; providing an indicator when additional information is available for the specific portion of the visual stream of main information; based on the user's choice concerning a spatial provision of the additional information on the TV screen or on other output devices or concerning a temporal provision of the additional information, presenting the additional information immediately, storing the additional information for later use or discarding the additional information; providing a plurality of windows on the TV screen comprising a main window and one or more sub-windows, the sub-windows comprising a set-aside window, the main window presenting the visual stream of main information, the set-aside window being smaller than the main window and allowing to make a snapshot of a current main window available in the set-aside window as a reference to allow the user to take care about the additional information at a later moment in time; wherein the sub-windows further comprise additional content windows (w3, w4) which comprise a table of content window or picture/video window to show additional media content and a textual content window; wherein the additional content windows (w3, w4) have a format transferrable to a personalized other output device being one of a PDA, smart-phone, and notebook; wherein, when one of the sub-windows (w2, w3, w4) which is presented on the TV screen is enlarged, the visual stream of main information is paused and a time-shift mode is activated. displaying the visual stream of main information on a TV screen; determining whether additional information is available for a specific portion of the visual stream of main information currently displayed, wherein the specific portion of the visual stream of main information is a time portion of the visual stream of main information or a spatial portion of the visual stream of main information and wherein the additional information is any kind of information to be provided to a user when viewing the visual stream of main information; providing an indicator when additional information is available for the specific portion of the visual stream of main information; based on the user's choice concerning a spatial provision of the additional information on the TV screen or on other output devices or concerning a temporal provision of the additional information, presenting the additional information immediately, storing the additional information for later use or discarding the additional information; providing a plurality of windows on the TV screen comprising a main window and one or more sub-windows, the sub-windows comprising a set-aside window, the main window presenting the visual stream of main information, the set-aside window being smaller than the main window and allowing to make a snapshot of a current main window available in the set-aside window as a reference to allow the user to take care about the additional information at a later moment in time; wherein the sub-windows further comprise additional content windows (w3, w4) which comprise a table of content window or picture/video window to show additional media content and a textual content window; wherein the additional content windows (w3, w4) have a format transferrable to a personalized other output device being one of a PDA, smart-phone, and notebook; wherein, when one of the sub-windows (w2, w3, w4) which is presented on the TV screen is enlarged, the visual stream of main information is paused and a time-shift mode is activated.