an entertainment system has a personal computer as the heart of the system with a large screen vga quality monitor as the display of choice . the system has digital satellite broadcast reception , decompression and display capability with multiple radio frequency remote control devices which transmit self identifying signals and have power adjustment capabilities . these capabilities are used to provide context sensitive groups of keys which may be defined to affect only selected applications running in a windowing environment . in addition , the remote control devices combine television and vcr controls with standard personal computer keyboard controls . a keyboard remote also integrates a touchpad which is food contamination resistant and may also be used for user verification . included in the system is the ability to recognize verbal communications in video signals and maintain a database of such text which is searchable to help identify desired programming in real time .