Patent ID: 8189996

Claim:
An interactive program guide system including user equipment with which an interactive television program guide is provided and which includes a video recorder and a television, comprising: means for receiving television program guide information for use in the interactive television program guide; means for displaying the interactive television program guide; means for providing a user with a first opportunity to select a program for recording and a second opportunity to select the program for viewing from the interactive program guide; means for receiving the selected program with copy protection from a television distribution facility; means for offering the selected program for purchase at a price for the program without copy protection when the program is selected for recording; means for, at the user equipment, (a) removing the copy protection from the selected program, (b) providing the selected program without copy protection, and (c) directing the video recorder to record the selected program when the program is purchased at the price for the program without copy protection; means for offering the selected program for purchase at a price for the program with copy protection when the program is selected for viewing; and means for providing the selected program with copy protection when the program is purchased at the price for the program with copy protection.