Patent ID: 7111319

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an audio/video decoder configured to receive (i) one or more uncompressed audio signals, (ii) one or more compressed audio/video signals and (iii) one or more remote control signals; a storage device, wherein (i) any one of said uncompressed audio signals and said remote control signals are tagged to said compressed audio/video signals to produce one or more tagged compressed audio/video signals and (ii) any of said one or more uncompressed audio signals and said one or more tagged compressed audio/video signals are stored in said storage device and available for a playback relative to said tags; and a control circuit having an audio adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) codec circuit configured to generate one or more compressed audio signals in response to compressing said one or more uncompressed audio signals prior to storing, wherein said control circuit is configured to present/receive (a) said one or more remote control signals, (b) one or more elementary streams, and (c) one or more compressed audio signals to and from said storage device.