A video processing device for automatic tuning of an audio-video signal (86) in accordance with a topic selection (80) made by a user. A user makes a selection of a subject matter topic from a menu (82) and the necessary tuning is thereafter automatically done under control of a menu control interface (82). In the example of digital information (90) transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal, the menu control interface (82) automatically adjusts the tuner (88) in accordance with the menu selection made by the user to choose an arbitrary channel and page of information within the channel. The menu or menus can be received from the incoming information, or can be stored in a memory (100).
