Abstract: This document discloses a system and a method, both of which use a personalized television apparatus to access entertainment information from the Internet. It belongs in the television and communication areas. The said system includes but is not limited to a television apparatus with identifier, index server and source server. The said method includes but is not limited to the television apparatus with identifier, which searches for the required program information from the index website and finds the link address of the said program information. The said television apparatus logs into the corresponding website according to the link and accesses the content of the program from the source website. The invention enhances the speed of accessing information from the Internet by adding the information-accessing apparatus and establishing an index website. It makes full use of existing network resources and thereby reduces the cost of using the network.

Abstract: A personalized TV apparatus and a method of using it to access entertainment information from the Internet are disclosed. The TV apparatus includes a CPU, storage device, network interface, switch, decoder and search, download, and management modules running on the CPU. The CPU in the TV apparatus can automatically search the Internet in the background in real time and download the located content into the storage device. The viewer can then view the content from the storage device. The TV apparatus also has a self training module to make the downloaded content match the viewer's choice slowly to increase the viewer's satisfaction.