MULTIMEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and system for providing recorded multimedia programming in digital form, in a multimedia player device. SOLUTION: A system for synchronizing a multiplicity of devices in a multimedia environment has at least one central storage and interface device, where audio, video and photographic information including content information and content management information, relating to at least one user, are stored in digital form. The system further has a plurality of zones, each having a zone-specific storage and interface device, capable of storing or interfacing information stored into the central storage and interface device, where audio, video or photographic information, relating to at least one user, contained within each one of the plurality of zone-specific storage and interface devices and the central storage and interface device, are updated in relation with other zone-specific storage and interface devices and the central storage and interface device.