Patent ID: 7996868

Claim:
A method of processing digital video broadcast signals, the method comprising: enabling reception of a digital video broadcast signal using a digital video broadcast receiver module coupled to an interconnect bus of a computer system; receiving the digital video broadcast signal configured to be communicated to a portable handheld electronic device using the digital video broadcast receiver module; decoding the digital video broadcast signal to access multiple broadcast channels including a first digital video broadcast data of a first channel; formatting the first digital video broadcast data; outputting the first digital video broadcast data to the interconnect bus of the computer system, the interconnect bus operable to communicate the first digital video broadcast data to a digital video broadcast processing application of the computer system to output the first digital video broadcast data of the first channel using a video output device of the computer system; accessing a translation code parameter to decode the first digital video broadcast data using the computer system; modifying the translation code parameter via the computer system; receiving the digital video signal including the first video broadcast data; and decoding the first digital video broadcast data using the modified translation code parameter.