Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Foy Edward Wilkey

James Edwin Hailey

Randall Duane Staggs

Robert H Miller

Billy Wesley Beyers

Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer

Jeffrey Philip Reavis

In a videocassette recorder including 'VCR PLUS+.TM.' videocassette recorder programming system capability and TIMER PROGRAMMING capability, it is herein recognized that the respective menu for programming in each of the two available systems should automatically be selected in response to the pressing of the PROGRAM key by a user, and in response to which of the two systems was last used for programming the VCR.

Adaptive menu for programming a videocassette recorder

A television receiver, provides a hierarchy of menus for controlling functions affecting the display of the video image. A 'fetch' menu which can be customized by a user, which is absent from the screen during normal program viewing, and which is easily accessible by means of a single key, holds a given number of the user's favorite commands. The user may add commands to the fetch menu which normally reside any position in the menu hierarchy. The user may thereafter cause display of his list of favorite commands via a remote control key, and cause the execution of his desired command without having to find that command at its normal position in the hierarchy.

Customizable menu for a television receiver accessed via a remote

In a videocassette recorder including 'VCR PLUS+.TM.' videocassette recorder programming system capability and autoprogramming capability, it is herein recognized that the channel-mapping procedure may be greatly simplified by using the autoprogramming feature to locate and program all active channels, and then by mapping only those channels which are active, instead of requiring the user to select all 125 possible channel-programming positions.

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