selecting a thumbnail such as the first thumbnail 115 or the second thumbnail 116 illustratively the selection mechanism 114 may be implemented using a keypad keyboard touch sensitive display screen or remote control the selection mechanism 114 could but need not be integrated into the dvr 106 or into the display mechanism 113 or both optionally the selection mechanism 114 permits a user to switch back and forth between viewing a clip such as the first clip 105 and viewing an entire broadcast program from which the clip was obtained as illustrated in fig1 the content provider 102 transmits a content 108 to the network 100 according to exemplary embodiments the content 108 includes a broadcast program commencing at 0 00 and ending at 1 00 a first begin tag 121 and a first end tag 122 define a beginning time and an ending time for the first clip 105 similarly a second begin tag 123 and a second end tag 124 define a beginning time and an ending time for the second clip 107 illustratively the first begin tag 121 the first end tag 122 the second begin tag 123 and the second end tag 124 are each implemented using extensible markup language xml tags with time stamps for example a first time stamp defines a beginning time for the first clip 105 and a second time stamp defines an ending time for the first clip 105 illustratively the first clip 105 and the second clip 107 may be emailed to one or more destination addresses over the network 100 by an email enabled dvr such as the dvr 106 or by a computing.