A system can be configured to receive entertainment content requested by a user and identify content segments and content features from the entertainment content. The content segments can be utilized to identify portions of the entertainment content for enrichment and/or enhancement by the system. The content features can be utilized to associate the entertainment content and the content segments with supplemental content that includes or is associated with the content features. The content features can indicate genres, scene classifications, significant figures credited with creating the entertainment content, and other points of interests for users interested in the entertainment content. The associations between the entertainment content and the supplemental content can enable the system to engage the users by presenting the supplemental content determined to match interests of the users.

A system can be configured to receive entertainment content requested by a user and identify content segments and content features from the entertainment content. The content segments can be utilized to identify portions of the entertainment content for enrichment and/or enhancement by the system. The content features can be utilized to associate the entertainment content and the content segments with supplemental content that includes or is associated with the content features. The content features can indicate genres, scene classifications, significant figures credited with creating the entertainment content, and other points of interests for users interested in the entertainment content. The associations between the entertainment content and the supplemental content can enable the system to engage the users by presenting the supplemental content determined to match interests of the users.

Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.

Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.

A display system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a content DB server, and a display apparatus comprising: a control unit that acquires information associated with content which has been received from the content DB server, and a display for displaying the acquired information associated with the content, wherein the control unit may display, on the display, the information associated with the content, according to a request regardless of whether or not the content is broadcast.

A display system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a content DB server, and a display apparatus comprising: a control unit that acquires information associated with content which has been received from the content DB server, and a display for displaying the acquired information associated with the content, wherein the control unit may display, on the display, the information associated with the content, according to a request regardless of whether or not the content is broadcast.

Systems and methods for video presentation and analytics for a sporting event are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sporting event is an auto racing event. A server platform is provided to collect and analyze real-time raw data and historical raw data, and compare drivers/vehicles from a current auto racing event and/or a historical auto racing event. The server platform is operable to overlay a ghost driver/vehicle on the images of a driver/vehicle in the current auto racing event based on the comparison. The server platform also provides a GUI for displaying the current auto racing event with enhanced features.

Systems and methods for video presentation and analytics for a sporting event are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sporting event is an auto racing event. A server platform is provided to collect and analyze real-time raw data and historical raw data, and compare drivers/vehicles from a current auto racing event and/or a historical auto racing event. The server platform is operable to overlay a ghost driver/vehicle on the images of a driver/vehicle in the current auto racing event based on the comparison. The server platform also provides a GUI for displaying the current auto racing event with enhanced features.

A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.

A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.