Patent ID: 7688384

Claim:
A personal multimedia device comprising: a set-top box for receiving digital television signals, wherein the received digital television signal is independent of a native display format of the personal multimedia device and received in a format incompatible with a direct display of the received digital television signal on any monitor, the monitor being exterior to the personal multimedia device, wherein the set-top box comprises: a media processing component, internal to the set-top box, configured to: decode the received television signal into at least a first field and a received video signal; detect a frame rate of the received video signal; compare the frame rate to a frame rate native to the personal multimedia device, the frame rate native to the personal multimedia device determined by a region where the personal multimedia device is located; increase a frame rate of the received video signal when the frame rate of the received video signal is less than the frame rate native to the personal multimedia device by adding frames to the received video signal where the added frames are based on at least one of the received frames, and decrease the frame rate of the received video signal when the frame rate of the received video signal is greater than the frame rate native to the personal multimedia device by removing at least one frame without modifying any frame adjacent to the removed frame from the received video signal.