Information transmission system having a reduced number of store

Details Information transmission system having a reduced number of store Information transmission system having a reduced number of store

1996-12-27

1998-02-24

Chin, Tommy P.

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

386 70, 348 7, 348 13, H04N 989, H04N 591, H04N 710, H04N 714

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057218030

ABSTRACT:
A VOD delivery system for delivering program data such as of movies or the like on a real-time basis which are requested by subscribers from time to time, in response to the requests from the subscribers has a reduced number of magnetooptical disks and a reduced number of identical programs available. The VOD delivery system has a library including an automatic cassette changer, a plurality of magnetooptical disk drives each having a plurality of playback heads, a distributor/exchanger circuit for delivering reproduced information from the magnetooptical disk drives to subscriber's residences which have requested a source or sources, and a control computer for controlling the magnetooptical disk drives to output reproduced information from the playback heads depending on access timing from the subscriber's residences.

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