USER PROFILE WITH WEIGHTED PREMIUM CONTENT

摘要

A video system (10) has an input port to receive video data that includes a plurality of premium contents, and an output port to couple to a video display (4) for displaying video data selected by a viewer. An image generator (14) is coupled to the input port, the output port and the storage device (12), wherein the image generator is responsive to a viewer profile (18) and responsive to data representing premium contents. The image generator generates a menu image (8) to be displayed on the video display as a menu including a limited number of viewing preferences having a high probability of acceptance by the viewer.