Patent ID: 7236227

Claim:
A method for enabling seamless transitions for a cinema presentation package, wherein the cinema presentation package includes pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main features, the steps comprising: (a) determining cinema presentation protocols that will affect transitioning between the pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main features; (b) identifying playlist rotations for transitioning between the pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main features that forms the cinema presentation package; (c) selectively displaying the cinema presentation package according to the cinema presentation protocols, such that either a transition playlist, or a repeating playlist, or a single play playlist is executed prior to the main feature to avoid exhibiting a dark screen having no visual content displayed upon it prior to the main feature; and (d) displaying the pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main features according to playlist transition rules associated with the cinema presentation protocols.