A networked media station comprising: a first network interface; and at least one multimedia interface; wherein the networked media station is configured to: being selectively addressed as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, wherein being selectively addressed comprises being automatically detected and publishing a multimedia capability and a required multimedia dataformat associated with the networked media station; upon being selected as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, receive multimedia data from a multimedia server via the first network interface, wherein the networked media station is configured to receive pushed multimedia content from the multimedia server and wherein pushing the multimedia content to the networked media station comprises: upon determining that the networked media station requires multimedia data from the multimedia content to be in a first format, decoding multimedia data from the multimedia content to generate decoded multimedia data; re-encoding the decoded multimedia data for the multimedia content to generate re-encoded multimedia data, wherein the re-encoded multimedia data is in the first format; and pushing the re-encoded multimedia data in the first format to the networked media station; and outputting the multimedia data to an entertainment device attached to the at least one multimedia interface a first network interface; and at least one multimedia interface; wherein the networked media station is configured to: being selectively addressed as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, wherein being selectively addressed comprises being automatically detected and publishing a multimedia capability and a required multimedia dataformat associated with the networked media station; upon being selected as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, receive multimedia data from a multimedia server via the first network interface, wherein the networked media station is configured to receive pushed multimedia content from the multimedia server and wherein pushing the multimedia content to the networked media station comprises: upon determining that the networked media station requires multimedia data from the multimedia content to be in a first format, decoding multimedia data from the multimedia content to generate decoded multimedia data; re-encoding the decoded multimedia data for the multimedia content to generate re-encoded multimedia data, wherein the re-encoded multimedia data is in the first format; and pushing the re-encoded multimedia data in the first format to the networked media station; and outputting the multimedia data to an entertainment device attached to the at least one multimedia interface being selectively addressed as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, wherein being selectively addressed comprises being automatically detected and publishing a multimedia capability and a required multimedia dataformat associated with the networked media station; upon being selected as a destination for multimedia data from a multimedia server, receive multimedia data from a multimedia server via the first network interface, wherein the networked media station is configured to receive pushed multimedia content from the multimedia server and wherein pushing the multimedia content to the networked media station comprises: upon determining that the networked media station requires multimedia data from the multimedia content to be in a first format, decoding multimedia data from the multimedia content to generate decoded multimedia data; re-encoding the decoded multimedia data for the multimedia content to generate re-encoded multimedia data, wherein the re-encoded multimedia data is in the first format; and pushing the re-encoded multimedia data in the first format to the networked media station; and upon determining that the networked media station requires multimedia data from the multimedia content to be in a first format, decoding multimedia data from the multimedia content to generate decoded multimedia data; re-encoding the decoded multimedia data for the multimedia content to generate re-encoded multimedia data, wherein the re-encoded multimedia data is in the first format; and pushing the re-encoded multimedia data in the first format to the networked media station; and outputting the multimedia data to an entertainment device attached to the at least one multimedia interface