A method of using an audiovisual system including the steps of providing usage preferences descriptions, providing a first user identification description which identifies a particular user of at least one of the usage preference descriptions where the usage preference description is created by the user by interaction with the system or provided by the user to the system, and providing a second user identification description which identifies a different particular user of at least one of the usage preference descriptions, wherein the first user identification description and its associated usage preference description is disabled prior to the different user using his associated usage preference description. The usage preferences descriptions include at least two of a browsing preferences description, a filtering preferences description, a search preferences description, and a device preferences description.