Patent ID: 8532464

Claim:
A method of playing back multimedia content relative to a portable storage medium, the method comprising: detecting, at a playback device, an initial access to a portable storage medium; requesting, from a remote source, pre-roll content corresponding to content recorded on the portable storage medium; and disguising the requesting of the pre-roll content and receiving of the pre-roll content such that a user of the playback device does not experience a delay in playback of content while the pre-roll content is being received from the remote source, wherein the disguising comprises: playing back disguise content, locally accessible by the playback device, while requesting and receiving the pre-roll content at the playback device; and transitioning playback from the disguise content to playing back the pre-roll content received from the remote source such that the user of the playback device does not perceive a delay associated with obtaining the pre-roll content from the remote source.