Enhanced bookmarks for digital video playback

A digital video recording device and a method for book-marking any user selected location in a multimedia presentation that is recorded. The method includes the step of annotating without interruption during a playback operation of the digital recording device a user accessible mark corresponding to a user selected location appearing anywhere within a digitally recorded multimedia presentation. The method further includes the step of determining the user selected location based on the annotated mark, and selectively resuming playback of the multimedia presentation from the selected location. The annotation step can further include identifying an index value that uniquely identifies the user selected location, and storing the index value in a data store. The index value can be a time measurement, a frame identifier or a data quantity measurement. A user identification, a bookmark identification, a date or a time can be stored with the index value in the data store.