Patent ID: 8595764

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a plurality of individual image areas in an electronic programming guide (EPG) display; receiving a plurality of reduced resolution video streams corresponding to video programming channels, wherein each of said plurality of reduced resolution video streams is encapsulated with an identifying header; receiving a user selection via the EPG of a first video programming channel to be displayed in a graphical representation of a polyhedron in the EPG display; in response to the user selection of the first video programming channel, decoding a first reduced resolution video stream corresponding to the first selected video programming channel using a first identifying header encapsulated with the first reduced resolution video stream; displaying a graphical representation of a polyhedron in a first of the individual image areas; binding the first reduced resolution video stream to a surface of the graphical representation of the polyhedron; and displaying the first reduced resolution video stream on the surface of the graphical representation of the polyhedron in the first of the individual image areas in the EPG display.