Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a slave Set-Top Box (STB) receiver having a controller adapted to transmit a request for presentation to a master STB receiver to present one or more media content items stored in the master media STB receiver, select one among the one or more media content items presented by the master STB receiver, transmit to the master STB receiver a request for transmission of a select one of the one or more media content items, and receive from the master STB receiver the requested media content item in a progressive download format so that a portion of the requested media content item can be presented by the slave STB receiver while the remainder of the requested media content item is transmitted. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller to detect a recording conflict between a schedule change of a first media program and a scheduled recording of a second media program. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to transmit to a web server one or more configurations of said media content processor. The web server can record said one or more configurations to perform one among re-provisioning of the media content processor after it experiences a loss of configuration information and provisioning of another media content processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.