Method of and apparatus for enabling the selection of content on a multi-media device
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Mar 4, 2003
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Nov 7, 2000
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The user interface disclosed in the present disclosure allows the user to `tune` to a `content` station just like he is accustomed to tuning to a radio station. The channel band GUI presents various content or feature bands as rotating belts of icons with each icon representing a channel on the band. The use of graphical belts enables a dynamic number of channels per band and the dynamic number of bands. The graphical presentation of the bands includes the presentation of sub-band 'visual hints' as a user highlights a channel on a given band. Provided that there is sufficient room on the display, a super-band visual hint can be used to indicate to the user that the current band is a sub-band. The user tunes to a channel by rotating a dial and selecting a channel from the band. A channel can be `fine tuned` by rotating the dial within the channel `band` and making a selection that presents a sub-band for that channel.
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