Patent ID: 8855467

Claim:
A method for tuning a digital video recorder (DVR), the method comprising the steps of: a DVR receiving a user selection of a program being simultaneously broadcasted by a content provider on a plurality of channels, wherein each channel of the plurality of channels provides viewers of the channel with a viewing angle of the program that is unique among viewing angles of the program provided to viewers of each other channel in the plurality of channels; the DVR receiving popularity data about the program from the content provider, wherein the popularity data indicates a popularity of the viewing angle provided on each channel of the plurality of channels among viewers of the channel; the DVR determining, from the popularity data, a most popular viewing angle of the program among the viewing angles provided on the plurality of channels; the DVR tuning to a channel of the plurality of channels providing the most popular viewing angle; and the DVR repeating the receiving popularity data, the determining, and the tuning steps such that at each point in time of the program occurring after a performance of the tuning step, the DVR is tuned to a current most popular viewing angle of the program at that point in time.