Patent ID: 7725827

Claim:
A method of operating a personal video recorder (PVR) system to manage recorded media content instances, said method comprising: recording broadcast television programming with said PVR; displaying a playback of a first recorded media content instance in said recorded television programming from a memory of said PVR; and terminating said display of said first recorded media content instance; and upon termination of said playback of said first recorded media content instance: searching a recorded television program list according to recording date for a recorded second media content instance in said recorded television programming having a same title as said first recorded media content instance; automatically prompting a user with a single graphical user interface (GUI) configured to delete or retain said first recorded media content instance in said memory of said PVR and immediately begin displaying said second recorded media content instance in said memory of said PVR; wherein a single selection in said GUI will both decide whether to delete or retain said first recorded media content instance, as well as start playback of said second recorded media content instance, and wherein said decision is the deletion of said first recorded media content instance; and wherein said GUI allows said user to specify whether said second recorded media content instance to be played back is to be another episode of a same television program as said first recorded media content instance.