Method of displaying internet signal on TV

A TV-Internet Integration process to combine, at a user's premises, TV channel video with Internet Protocol (IP) material, comprising:

• receiving the TV channel video at a first input at the user's premises, receiving the IP material at a second input at the user's premises, and outputting display drive signals to a TV screen at the user's premises;
• wherein (i) as received at the user's premises, the TV channel video conforms to a TV broadcast format standard;
• (ii) as received at the user's premises, the IP format material conforms to an IP format standard that is different from the TV broadcast format standard and (iii) the IP material is received via a path different from that for the TV channel video at least in part;
• storing, in a memory, one or more overlays each identifying a respective source of IP format material;
• selectively generating display drive signals that cause the TV screen to display the TV channel video received at the first input;
• responding to an overlay activation signal by reading out the one or more overlays from the memory and generating display drive signals that cause the TV screen to display the one or more overlays;
• and
• responding to a user's selection of one of the displayed overlays by generating display drive signals that cause the TV screen to display the IP material associated with the selected overlay and received at the second input;
• wherein, depending on the user's selection at the user's premises, the TV screen displays, at respective times, the TV channel video received at the first input, the one or more overlays, and the IP material associated with the selected overlay and received at the second input.