Patent ID: 8667546

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a connection between a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and a personal computer (PC); receiving, at the DVR, a request for multimedia content from the PC, the multimedia content having been recorded by the DVR, the request for multimedia content having been sent from the PC in response to the PC receiving a message from a service provider, the message instructing the PC to send the request for the multimedia content; retrieving, at the DVR, the requested multimedia content recorded by the DVR from at least one storage device connected to the DVR, wherein the requested multimedia content is stored in a first format; converting, at the DVR, the first format of the multimedia content recorded by the DVR into a second format of the multimedia content, wherein the first format is a different format than the second format and the second format is a computer-readable format; and sending the second format of the multimedia content from the DVR to the PC.