Content and identity delivery system for portable playback of content and streaming service integration

A method of operating a playback device to automatically play back content from either a flash memory media device or a digital streaming service depending upon playback circumstances, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a connected flash memory media device, user service information, including user account information for an account based digital media content streaming service, wherein the user service information enables access to the account based digital media content streaming service;
• and wherein the connected flash memory media device previously has received content from a kiosk delivery system including the user service information that includes user account information for one or more account based digital streaming services;
• responsive to the user service information being unrecognized by the playback device, playing back the content from the connected flash memory media device, the content previously received from the kiosk delivery system;
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• responsive to the user service information being recognized by the playback device:
• responsive to the playback device not being connected to a network, playing back the content from the connected flash memory media device;
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• responsive to the playback device being connected to a network, accessing the account based digital media content streaming service using the user service information, by:
• responsive to a speed of the connection not meeting a threshold for streaming digital content, playing back the content from the connected flash memory media device;
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• responsive to the speed of the connection meeting the threshold for streaming digital content, streaming the content from the account based digital media content streaming service, wherein streaming the content from the account based digital media content streaming service comprises streaming the content in high definition, and wherein the content on the flash memory media device is standard definition.