Patent ID: 8842970

Claim:
A method of playing back multimedia content relative to a portable storage medium, the method comprising: detecting, at a playback device, access to a portable storage medium, wherein the playback device is configured to playback multimedia content stored on portable storage mediums; accessing, by the playback device, pre-roll content corresponding to content stored on the portable storage medium; disguising, at the playback device, the accessing the pre-roll content and initiating playing back of the pre-roll content such that a user of the playback device does not perceive a delay in playback of content corresponding with the portable storage medium while the pre-roll content is being accessed, wherein the disguising the delay further comprises playing back disguise content, by the playback device, while the playback device is accessing the pre-roll content; and transitioning playback from the disguise content to playing back the pre-roll content such that the user of the playback device does not perceive the delay associated with accessing the pre-roll content.