Abstract: A method and system for adding overtime to a video recording are described. The method and system include providing a personal video recorder (PVR) operative to record a video stream, providing a multimedia content item on the video stream, providing metadata accessible to the PVR, the metadata being associated with the multimedia content item and including at least a first metadata item and a second metadata item, recording the multimedia content item at the PVR for a first amount of time, the first amount of time being indicated by the first metadata item, continuing to record the multimedia content item after the end of the first amount of time, for a second amount of time based, at least in part, on at least one parameter in the second metadata item. Related methods and apparatus are also described.

Abstract: A method and system for adding overtime to a video recording are described. The method and system include providing a personal video recorder (PVR) operative to record a video stream, providing a multimedia content item on the video stream, providing metadata accessible to the PVR, the metadata being associated with the multimedia content item and including at least a first metadata item and a second metadata item, recording the multimedia content item at the PVR for a first amount of time, the first amount of time being indicated by the first metadata item, continuing to record the multimedia content item after the end of the first amount of time, for a second amount of time based, at least in part, on at least one parameter in the second metadata item. Related methods and apparatus are also described.

Abstract: The method according to the invention is mainly implemented in terminal devices of an interactive digital TV system. The method comprises a step for storing in a cache memory of the terminal device information transported in a data stream of the system. The method also comprises a step consisting in searching, according to at least one predefined selection criterion, for requested information in at least one of the information carriers formed by the data stream and the cache memory. The method finds it preferred application in interactive digital TV systems compliant with the MPEG-DVB standards. Preferably, the information and/or MPEG tables are stored in the cache memory according to a structural organization similar to that of the information and/or MPEG tables in the data stream. The invention provides the application programs with optimal access to the MPEG tables and service information.