Patent ID: 8428421

Claim:
A method of playback of digital video from an optical digital video media, the method comprising: detecting, by a processor within a digital video playback device, a defect in the optical digital video media that renders portions of a video program encoded on the optical digital video media unplayable; determining, by the processor, an unplayable portion of the video program that is unplayable due to the defect, by displaying a graphical representation of the optical digital video media and receiving a user input describing a shape of a damaged region of the optical digital video media on the displayed graphical representation of the optical digital video media from user movement of a cursor selecting a region of the display of the graphical representation corresponding to the shape of the damaged region of the optical digital video media; requesting, by the processor responsive to the determining, download of the unplayable portion of the video program from a remote content provider as a downloaded replacement portion of the video program; receiving, by the processor, download of the downloaded replacement portion of the video program; and directing, by the processor, playback of a playable portion of the video program on the digital video playback device and further directing playback of the downloaded replacement portion of the video program in place of the unplayable portion of the video program.