Patent ID: 8635659

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a television comprising: a display; a control interface configured to receive control signals from a plurality of interface controls, wherein the plurality of interface controls is provided on at least one of a housing of the television and a remote control; a display controller configured to: receive processed content associated with media content received from one or more external media content sources; and present the processed content at the display within five seconds of a power-up request; a first network interface to a private network associated with a service provider; a first modular card receptacle, wherein the first modular card receptacle is coupled to the first network interface, to the control interface, and to the display controller; and an audio receiver modular card coupled to the first modular card receptacle and configured to: process audio content associated with or included in the media content received from the one or more external media content sources to produce processed audio content; and initiate transmission of the processed audio content to one or more network devices based on a threshold number of network devices authorized to receive the media content, wherein, when the processed audio content corresponds to multimedia content received from the service provider via the private network and the one or more network devices includes a second television, the processed audio content is transmitted to the second television via the private network, wherein the second television disables decoding and decryption components to reduce power consumption of the second television.