Patent ID: 8374490

Claim:
Apparatus for providing a content control signal and one or more of the following; a video program, a metadata signal, an interactive programming guide (IPG) signal, an electronic programming guide (EPG) signal, comprising: a circuit for receiving the video program, the metadata, IPG, or EPG signal from a digital delivery network, a circumvention device which normally removes pseudo sync pulses when the pseudo sync pulses are inserted two or more television lines after the post equalizing pulse so as to allow copying in a video recorder; a waveform generating circuit for providing a content control signal including pseudo sync pulses added less than two television lines after a post equalizing pulse of the video signal, to provide a content protected video signal; wherein when the content protected video signal is coupled to the circumvention device, the circumvention device fails in its intended function of removing the pseudo sync pulses in a television field, which results in failure to allow copying in a video recorder; and wherein the apparatus allows the display of the IPG or EPG signal(s).