Patent ID: 8051458

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a remote control, a last channel to which a television was tuned prior to the television being turned off; determining, by the remote control, whether the last channel tuned to prior to being turned off was a radio frequency remodulated (RF-remodulated) channel via a media center set-top box; if the last channel was an RF-remodulated channel, then sending, from the remote control, a signal to the media center set-top box to indicate that the television is on line with the RF-remodulated channel; if a tuner in the media center set-top box is not available for the television, then receiving at the remote control, from the media center set-top box, an indication identifying a cable channel that was most recently RF-remodulated for transmission on the RF-remodulated channel for the television; and automatically changing the television with the remote control to the identified cable channel to satisfy expectations of a user when the tuner is not available for the television, wherein the remote control is separate from the media center set-top box.