The Virtuoso holds content locally on the console's mac. At least last time I looked. Besides, if the first frames of your movie are black (as commonly happens), you're not going to know which movie is which. More useful, surely, would be the name of the movie, right? Catalyst v4 has a build in web-server. It ain't rocket science then for console manufacturers to do this (or indeed get the thumbnails, if that floats your boat). You just need to poll the media server on it's IP address on port 8080. The URL is 'x.x.x.x:8080/catws.index.html'. No special protocols required.

Hugh