PREVIEWING CONTENT AVAILABLE AT LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES

摘要

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to previewing media content available for streaming. One example provides a media consumption device comprising a communications subsystem configured to connect to one or more media sources, a logic device configured to execute instructions, and a storage device having instructions executable by the logic device to, for each of the one or more media sources, send a request for information on a media content item currently being received by the media source and in response, receive a reduced fidelity representation of the media content item being received by the media source, output the reduced fidelity representation of each media content item currently being received by each media source for presentation, receive a user input selecting a selected media content item for viewing, and output the higher fidelity representation of the selected media content item for presentation.

主权项

1. A media consumption device configured to provide previewing of media content currently being received at a plurality of media sources in a local media environment, each media source comprising a television tuner, the media consumption device comprising:
a communications subsystem configured to connect to each of the plurality of media sources; a logic device configured to execute instructions; and a storage device having instructions executable by the logic device to
for each of the plurality of media sources,
send a request for information on a media content item currently being received by the television tuner, andin response, receive a reduced fidelity representation of the media content item currently being received by the television tuner;output the reduced fidelity representation of each media content item currently being received by each television tuner for presentation;receive a user input selecting a selected media content item for viewing;in response, receive a higher fidelity representation of the selected media content item; andoutput the higher fidelity representation of the selected media content item for presentation.