SHOW NUMBER OF SECONDS BEFORE PROGRAM RESTART

摘要

Provided are methods and apparatus to display a timer that counts down the time remaining in an interstitial of a recorded program stream before a next segment of the program content in the recorded program stream starts. In one embodiment, the interstitial contains at least one advertisement and the timer is displayed when the at least one advertisement is presented on a display device. The timer count is based on the calculated duration of the interstitial in the recorded program stream.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
recording a program stream including at least two segments of a program content and at least one interstitial, the at least one interstitial being a segment void of the program content; receiving data associated with the program stream; calculating a duration of the interstitial based on the received data; generating an object renderable as a timer on a display device, the object indicating the duration of the interstitial; receiving a command from a user to play the recorded program stream; sending the object to the display device; and causing the display device to show the timer displaying a timing count of the remaining duration of the interstitial.