Patent ID: 8209736

Claim:
A method for managing digital television (TV) signals, performed by an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a TV signal; providing a parameter from a man-machine interface (MMI) comprising two items, wherein one item prompts a user to configure the electronic device to display the received digital TV signal on a display of the electronic device when selected, and wherein the other item prompts the user to configure the electronic device to display the received digital TV signal on an external display when selected; decoding the received digital TV signal to generate a series of frames, and displaying the generated frames on the display device thereof when a first parameter indicates that the received digital TV signal is displayed on the display thereof as being selected by the user; and converting the received digital TV signal into a converted output signal, and transmitting the converted output signal to the external display via a connection device of the electronic device when the first parameter indicates that the received digital TV signal is displayed on the external display as being selected by the user, enabling the external display to present a series of frames corresponding to the converted output signal, wherein the conversion undergoes a conversion path configured based on a plurality of device combinations wherein the device combinations comprise: a first device combination comprising a DVB-T demux when obtaining an MPEG packet stream from the received DVB-T signal as the converted output signal; a second device combination comprising a DVB-H demux and an Internet protocol (IP) decapsulator when obtaining IP packets from the received DVB-H signal as the converted output signal; and a third device combination comprising a DVB-H demux, an Internet decapsulator and a processor when obtaining an MPEG packet stream from the received DVB-H signal as the converted output signal.