8. An apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to communicate with a server to obtain a metadata file that includes the first set of attributes, and the categorizing of the first set of attributes includes parsing the metadata.
7. An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to categorize and rank a first set of attributes based on a criterion associated with one or more characteristics of the attributes, the first set of attributes being associated with a first list of objects, and to present the first list of objects and associated attributes, wherein each of the objects represents a video asset that is associated with one or more of the attributes of the first set and the criterion specifies a frequency of occurrence of an attribute of the first set of attributes; and an input interface configured to receive a first input indicating selection of at least one of the attributes of the first set; wherein the processor is further configured to, collapse the first list of objects into a second list of objects consisting of a subset of the first list of objects, wherein the subset consists of the objects associated with the selected attributes, generate a second set of attributes based on the second list of objects, the second set of attributes comprising a non-selected attribute of the first set of attributes, wherein each of the attributes of the second set of attributes is associated with at least one object of the second list of objects, rank the second set of attributes according to the criterion, wherein the criterion specifies a frequency of occurrence of an attribute of the second set of attributes, and present the second list of objects and associated attributes in response to the first input; and wherein the input interface is further configured to receive a second input indicating selection of one of the objects in the second list, in response to which the processor retrieves the video asset corresponding to the one selected object, wherein the selection of the at least one of the attributes of the first set of attributes specifies a maximum and/or minimum value.