Centralized video and data integration unit

An apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of remote control devices each to receive a user-initiated video selection of any of a plurality of channels;
• a plurality of video processing modules, each of the video processing modules responsive to a corresponding one of the remote control devices to request a channel based on the user-initiated video selection;
• a distribution module to simultaneously receive all channels requested by the video processing modules and to distribute the channels to those of the video processing modules requesting same;
• a modem;
• a network interface in communication with the modem to provide a data networking signal;
• a data packet to television signal converter to convert Web-page type information received by the modem to a television signal;
• a plurality of mixers, each of the mixers associated with one of the video processing modules;
• a selector responsive to the data packet to television signal converter to direct the television signal of Web-page type information to an appropriate one of the mixers;
• wherein each of the mixers is to superimpose a television signal directed thereto from the selector onto the channel requested by its associated one of the video processing modules to form a mixed signal;
• a plurality of modulators, each of the modulators associated with one of the mixers to modulate its associated mixed signal onto a specific channel;
• and
• a plurality of combiners each to combine the television signal from a corresponding one of the modulators with the data networking signal to form a corresponding combined television and data networking signal.