DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCAST TRANSITION METHOD AND DEVICE

摘要

A digital video broadcast transition method and device allows a streaming digital video program to be transferred from one broadcast receiver to another across digital video broadcast formats. Initially, a first digital video broadcast receiver is receiving a first program (210). If a second digital video broadcast receiver capable of receiving a digital video broadcast program corresponding to the first program is available to the user (220), the second digital video broadcast receiver is enabled (250). The transfer from one digital video broadcast receiver to another (240) can be implemented manually by the user or automatically via a user preference profile. The transition can be made gradually by having both receivers running simultaneously for a predetermined non-zero time period before releasing digital video broadcasting resources of the first device or can be made abruptly by setting the predetermined time period to zero seconds (260).