Method and apparatus for accessing medium interactive feature data and controlling a medium player

摘要

Interactive feature data is accessed with an auxiliary display device that controls a medium player (e.g., DVD player). The interactive feature data is stored on an insertably-removable data storage medium which is inserted in the medium player. The data storage medium also has video data stored thereon which is viewed on a screen device when the data storage medium is played by the medium player. In one embodiment, the interactive feature data is copied from the data storage medium to at least one memory location external to the data storage medium and is viewed on the auxiliary display device while only the video data is viewed on the screen device. In another embodiment, the medium player is controlled by accessing a website on the Internet which instructs the auxiliary display device to send commands to the medium player when command links presented on a webpage of the website are selected.