Patent ID: 7206344

Claim:
An apparatus to play an audio/video datastream, said apparatus comprising: an input to receive the audio and video datastream, said datastream comprising information for a plurality of different audio/video programs, wherein each of the plurality of different audio/video programs comprises a video portion and an audio portion associated only with the video portion, and each of the plurality of different audio/video programs is independently actionable by a user; a decoding circuit configured to decode said datastream so as to output a signal for displaying a first presentation comprising a first video portion and a first audio portion associated with the first video portion; a selection circuit operable to re-configure said decoding circuit such that said decoding circuit is configured to decode said datastream so as to output a signal for displaying a second presentation comprising a second video portion and a second audio portion associated with the second video portion concurrent with the displaying of the first presentation; and a receiver configured to receive during use a signal from a user that directly selects which of said first or said second presentation is a desired presentation to display, wherein during the concurrent displaying of the first and the second presentations, the first audio portion and the second audio portions are concurrently output by the apparatus.