CPC H04H 20/55 (2013.01) [H04H 20/26 (2013.01); H04H 20/74 (2013.01); H04H 60/27 (2013.01); H04N 5/775 (2013.01); H04N 5/907 (2013.01); H04N 9/8205 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/4392 (2013.01); H04N 21/8113 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |
1. A system for enhanced playback of content, the system comprising:
a broadcast device; and
a computing device configured to:
receive, from the broadcast device, a plurality of program channels from at least one content stream;
designate one or more of the plurality of program channels as designated channels;
store at least a currently received program and one or more older programs associated with each of the designated channels in a buffer; and
in response to receiving a command to initiate a scan function, scanning at least a subset of the plurality of program channels by:
playing a portion of an oldest program in each of the designated channels from a playback point that corresponds to a start of the oldest program; and
successively playing a portion of a next oldest program in each of the designated channels until at least a portion of the currently received program in each of the designated channels is played.
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