Patent ID: 7793325

Claim:
A method of presenting entertainment comprising: receiving composite video signals from a network; separating the composite signals into analog video, digital video, and HTML primitives/control instructions, the composite signals including plural transmission channels; displaying, on a screen, a selection of on-demand videos, the screen display defined by at least a portion of the HTML primitives; rendering a control panel on the screen using at least a portion of the HTML primitives; receiving a request to display an on-demand video from the displayed selection of on-demand videos; converting the digital video into successive frames of video data, the successive frames of video data comprising a portion of the on-demand video; receiving an indication of a waiting email message; displaying the portion of the on-demand video on the screen; receiving a request to pause display of the portion of the on-demand video; in response to the request, resumably interrupting display of the portion of the on-demand video; and during the resumably interrupted display of the portion of the on-demand video, displaying an indication of the waiting e-mail message, wherein the indication of the waiting e-mail message is in response to receiving a request to pause the display portion of the on-demand video; monitoring a length of time that the pause request has been pending and dynamically reassigning a new transmission channel if the pause request has been pending for longer than a predetermined threshold period.