Buffering content on a handheld electronic device

A mobile computing device, comprising:

• a wireless receiver, the wireless receiver multiple video streams during a live event that show different perspectives of the live event;
• a display, at least one of the received video streams are displayed on the display;
• one or more buffers;
• and
• a processor in communication with the wireless receiver, the display, and the one or more buffers;
• the processor buffers a plurality of the video streams into the one or more buffers without the user of the mobile computing device indicating which video streams to buffer, receives a request from a user to play a stored video stream from the one or more buffers, and plays at least a portion of the stored video stream from the one or more buffers in response to the request.

A method of presenting content on a wireless mobile computing device, comprising:

• receiving multiple video channels at a wireless mobile computing device;
• displaying a first video channel of the received video channels using a display of the wireless mobile computing device;
• automatically determining a subset of the video channels to buffer, the subset of received video channels includes at least one video channel other than the first video channel;
• buffering the subset of received video channels in one or more buffers in the wireless mobile computing device;
• receiving a request to access a buffered video channel, other than the first video channel, from the buffered subset of video channels;
• and
• displaying the buffered video channel from the buffered subset of video channels.

A method of presenting content to a wireless mobile computing device, comprising:

• receiving multiple video streams depicting a live event;
• wirelessly transmitting the multiple video streams to a first set of mobile computing devices during the live event;
• and
• transmitting to the first set of mobile computing devices first information that identifies a first subset of the video streams for the first set of mobile computing devices to buffer for replay mode playback.

A content transmission system, comprising:

• one or more storage devices that store multiple video streams depicting a live event during the live event;
• a wireless transmitter that wirelessly transmits the multiple video streams to a first set of mobile computing devices during the live event;
• and
• a processor in communication with the one or more storage devices and the wireless transmitter, the processor communicates first information to the first set of mobile computing devices that identifies a first subset of the video streams for the first set of mobile computing devices to buffer for replay mode playback.

A method of presenting content on a wireless mobile computing device, comprising:

• continuously receiving multiple video channels at the wireless mobile computing device;
• displaying a first video channel of the received video channels as live video using a display of the wireless mobile computing device;
• continuously buffering at least a subset of two or more of the received multiple video channels in one or more buffers of the wireless mobile computing device while receiving the multiple video channels at the wireless mobile computing device;
• receiving a request to access one or more of the buffered video channels;
• freezing the one or more buffers and displaying one or more of the buffered video channels in response to the request, the displaying one or more of the buffered video channels displays an action that occurred previously in time;
• receiving a request to return to live video;
• releasing the one or more buffers from being frozen in response to the request to return to live video;
• displaying at least one of received video channels as live video using the display in response to the request to return to live video;
• and
• continuously buffering two or more of the received multiple video channels in the one or more buffers of the wireless mobile computing device while receiving the multiple video channels at the wireless mobile computing device in response to the request to return to live video.

A mobile computing device, comprising:

• a wireless receiver, the wireless receive receives a first video stream in a wireless transmission;
• a display;
• a first buffer;
• a second buffer;
• and
• a processor in communication with the wireless receiver, the display, the first buffer and the second buffer;
• the processor buffers the first video stream into the first buffer, receives a first request to replay the first video stream, replays at least a portion of the first video stream from the first buffer in response to the first request and buffers the first video stream into the second buffer at least while replaying the first video stream from the first buffer.