Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1993-02-01
1995-08-08
Britton, Howard W.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 7, 348384, H04N 713
Patent
active
054403340
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for broadcast burst transmission of compressed audio/video programs from a stored library to a multiplicity of subscibers. The stored programs are burst transmitted repeatedly in a predetermined sequence of entire programs or segments thereof to a receiver at each subscriber's location. Each receiver is operative for accessing the predetermined broadcast schedule, inputting a subscriber's order for one or more programs, monitoring the broadcast burst transmissions for the one or more ordered programs, receiving the one or more ordered programs in a burst time period corresponding to the time period of the burst transmission, and storing the one or more ordered programs. The subscriber then enjoys full VCR-like control over playback at his convenience of the ordered, stored programs, that are then decompressed by the receiver for viewing in real time.
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Lang Richard A.
Mincer Earl I.
Walters Eric H.
Britton Howard W.
Explore Technology, Inc.
Hein William E.
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