Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a user-adapted service environment. The method includes authenticating a user, transmitting first user identification information for identifying the authenticated user to a controlled device, receiving a user profile corresponding to the first user identification information from the controlled device, and configuring a service environment using the received user profile.

Abstract: A system and method for generating and rendering multimedia data including environmental data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for rendering content in a vehicle is disclosed, the system comprising a receiver configure to receive, via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content and an environmental event associated with a subset of the audiovisual content and a vehicular electronic system configured to render the audiovisual content and alter an environmental parameter in accordance with the environmental event when the associated subset of the audiovisual content is rendered.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a user-adapted service environment. The method includes authenticating a user, transmitting first user identification information for identifying the authenticated user to a controlled device, receiving a user profile corresponding to the first user identification information from the controlled device, and configuring a service environment using the received user profile.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for automatically interfacing between devices that reproduce content in a network with reference to reproduction property information of a content file, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method. One of a plurality of content reproduces is selected with reference to at least one reproduction property information of a content file selected and specification information of the content reproducers. Thereafter, the selected content file is transmitted from a content provider to the selected content reproducer, and then the selected content reproducer reproduces the selected content file. Therefore, knowledge of reproduction property information by the user is not required, and the number of processes that are needed to carry out in reproducing the selected content file is minimized.

Abstract: A private video recorder (PVR) providing a user interface showing a history of a storing status of content and a method therefor. The private video recorder includes a receiving module receiving content from a content source, a decoding module decoding the received content in an outputable form, a display module outputting the decoded content, a storage module storing at least one of the received content and the decoded content, an input module receiving data for operation control from a user, a control module controlling operations of the receiving module, the decoding module, the display module and the storage module according to the data for operation control received from the input module, and a user interface module generating a user interface showing a history of a storing status in the storage module and providing the user interface to the display module.