Patent ID: 8661489

Claim:
A method for adapting media content, comprising: generating a media guide by a first media processing system wherein the media guide includes a plurality of channels assigned to personal media content and a plurality of channels assigned to broadcast media content, wherein the personal media content is selected from a plurality of personal media devices operatively coupled to the first media processing system over a local area network; selecting by the first media processing system a first channel of the plurality of channels for transmission to a second media processing system, wherein the first channel is assigned to a first personal media content; accessing a device capability profile associated with the second media processing system, wherein the device capability profile includes device capabilities of a lower quality standard and a higher quality standard and wherein the device capability profile indicates a selection for transmission of the lower quality standard to the second media processing system; modifying digital parameters of the first personal media content of the selected first channel to the lower quality standard in accordance with the device capability profile to generate modified media content; pushing the selected first channel and the modified media content over a media exchange network to the second media processing device; and storing the first personal media content modified to the higher quality standard in the device capability profile in a media storage server operatively coupled to the media exchange; and generating a file with address information of a location of the first personal media content modified to the higher quality standard stored in the media storage server.