A personalized TV apparatus and a method of using it to access
entertainment information from the Internet are disclosed. The TV
apparatus includes a CPU, storage device, network interface, switch,
decoder and search, download, and management modules running on the CPU.
The CPU in the TV apparatus can automatically search the Internet in the
background in real time and download the located content into the storage
device. The viewer can then view the content from the storage device. The
TV apparatus also has a self training module to make the downloaded
content match the viewer's choice slowly to increase the viewer's
satisfaction.