TELEVISION BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION OF VIEWER-CHOSEN PROGRAMS AT VIEWER-REQUESTED TIMES

摘要

a cable television system transmitter (14) provides real-time transmission to the receiver (16) of a television program selected by the viewer, the viewer and the time required by the latter.according to the preferred process of implementation, a series of recorded programs (20) is provided, the program selected by the viewer (20) in the time available for the viewing and is transmitted, the selected program is selected from the set (2) 0) and transmitted to the receiver (16) of the viewer at the requested time; at the same time.we don't understand the program viewing on receivers (44) other than the viewer selected program specific. the preferred system includes a central unit (10), (12), a cable (14), a plurality of receivers (16) associated with a plurality of combined television and telephone (18) associated with the viewer.clients can communicate with customer service representatives to units of telephone (32) to the central station (12). in a variant, the client can use the telephone (18) to communicate directly with the computer programmer (28).the sources of the signal converter (36), (38) and jammers and the mixing unit for a plurality of program signals required for the cable (14). the billing address is controlled by the computer (26), and billing address.