Methods and apparatus for delivering content from a television channel

A computerized device comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor;
• a communications interface;
• an interconnection mechanism coupling the memory, the processor and the communications interface;
• wherein the memory is encoded with television channel content delivering application that when executed on the processor is capable of delivering television channel content on the computerized device by performing the operations of:
• receiving a plurality of streaming videos from a plurality of providers of television channels, each television channel provider delivering a respective streaming video;
• creating a thumbnail image representation of the content for each of the streaming videos of each television channel;
• transmitting the thumbnail image representation to a device capable of rendering the thumbnail image representation;
• and
• rendering the thumbnail image representation on the device, the thumbnail image representation temporarily rendered in place of the streaming video.

A computer readable medium having computer readable code thereon, the medium comprising:

• instructions for receiving a plurality of streaming videos from a plurality of providers of television channels, each television channel provider delivering a respective streaming video;
• instructions for creating a thumbnail image representation of the content for each of the streaming videos of each television channel;
• instructions for transmitting the thumbnail image representation to a device capable of rendering the thumbnail image representation;
• and
• instructions for rendering the thumbnail image representation on the device, the thumbnail image representation temporarily rendered in place of the streaming video.