Patent ID: 8401366

Claim:
A method for distributing ancillary program data to multimedia devices, comprising: receiving a request from a user to record or download a specific content at a multimedia device; in response to receiving the record or download request, requesting ancillary program data information associated with the requested specific content from a service; receiving ancillary program data information from the service at the multimedia device; in response to receiving the ancillary program data information, automatically downloading, by the multimedia device, ancillary program data from a source listed in the ancillary program data information to a storage device at the multimedia device; recording or downloading, by the multimedia device, the specific content onto the storage device; displaying, by the multimedia device, a list of selectable ancillary program data to the user when the user selects the stored specific content for viewing; wherein the ancillary program data includes at least one of: deleted scenes, “blooper” clips, “making of” clips, music videos, executable software, advertisements, additional scenes, multiple scene angle content, director's comments, games, any special features that a DVD would have available to a user, or a link to ancillary content; and displaying, by the multimedia device, a user-selected ancillary program data.