Television system
AssigneePace Micro Technology PLC.
InventorLyndon Smith
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Abstract
The invention provides a television system for receiving data broadcast to a number of broadcast data receivers at different locations. The broadcast data receivers generate video and audio from the received data to represent television programmes selectable by a user. The invention provides for the transmission of portions of data in addition to the data for the programmes available at that instant. The portions of data allow the generation of video and/or audio “trailers” which represent a programme or service available for user selection and viewing in the future. The user can select the programme or service via the broadcast data received at the time of display of the video or audio trailer generated from the portion of data.
Claims14
A television system for the generation of television programmes from digital data received by a broadcast data receiver, said broadcast data receiver processing the data into television programmes comprising video and audio displayed by the television system and characterised in that a portion of said received data represents a particular programme or service available for user selection in the future and upon the generation and display of the audio and/or video from the portion of data to a user via the television system, the user is provided with the option to make a selection relating to the programme or service represented by that portion, said option selection received by the broadcast data receiver and an entry made into a memory means in the broadcast data receiver which is representative of the users option selection.
A system according to the preceding claim characterised in that the additional data is carried via a teletext subtitle carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.