Patent ID: 8185929

Claim:
A system for receiving, storing, and displaying television programs comprised of video and audio portions, comprising: a user display and associated audio transducer having visual and audible output; digital data storage memory, configured to store a first television program; a user remote; a delivery channel interface responsive to a delivery channel, which delivery channel provides data comprising a second television program that is being currently broadcast, without the user's request, by a programming source; and a data manager configured to perform each of different functions responsive to each user selection via said user remote, wherein the different functions include: (i) said second television program being stored in said digital data storage memory simultaneously with the outputting of said first television program from said digital data storage memory to said user display to display the video portion of said first television program as a visible image on said user display and output the audio portion of said first television program as an audible sound to the audio transducer; (ii) an unstored portion of the video portion of said first television program being displayed as a visible image on said user display and an unstored portion of the audio portion of said first television program being output as an audible sound to the audio transducer simultaneously with said second television program being stored in said digital data storage memory; and (iii) the video portion of said second television program being displayed as a visible image on said user display and the audio portion of said second television program being output as an audible sound to the audio transducer while another portion of said second television program is being stored.