INTERNALLY GENERATED CLOSE CAPTIONING/TELE-TEXTING FOR SET-UP MENUS OF NETWORK-CAPABLE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS

An apparatus, system, and/or method of use as described herein provide generated menu data to a display device for initial network parameter configuration data input of the apparatus. The apparatus, in one form, includes a text generator for input of initial network parameter configuration data therein. This system, apparatus and/or method require only a small amount of boot ROM to implement. In one form, the subject invention involves an apparatus having a digital video receiver operative to receive digital video data, a digital video converter coupled to the digital video receiver and operative to convert the digital video data into an analog video signal, a menu data generator operative to generate set-up menu data that is displayable by a display device as a parameter set-up menu for assisting in the input of set-up parameters into the apparatus, and a menu data inserter coupled to the menu data generator and the digital video converter and operative to insert the menu data into a vertical blanking interval of the analog video signal.