Patent ID: 8073304

Claim:
A method for portable viewing of recorded television programs on a handheld portable game console that is not adapted to play television programs, the method comprising: receiving one or more television programs at a user terminal coupled to a television system, including storing the television programs in a video recorder associated with the terminal; encoding a first of the television programs stored at the terminal, including digitally compressing the first of the television programs , the first of the television programs including non-cartoon video of live people ; transferring the encoded television program in conjunction with software for controlling how the television program is played to the portable game console on a recordable cartridge that is compatible for insertion and operation in a game slot in the game console, including at the terminal, storing the encoded television program on a recordable cartridge, said cartridge also including software code for execution as a game on the portable game console to play the television program, and passing the recordable cartridge from the terminal to the game console and inserting the recordable cartridge in the game slot of the game console; and at the portable game console without connection to and distant from the terminal, executing the software code included on the recordable cartridge on a processor local to the console, the software code controlling operation of the game console as if the software were for a game, accepting a command from a user to play the downloaded first of the television programs , and in response accessing the television program on the cartridge and using the software on the cartridge to play the television program video to the user using a screen on the portable device.