Updating content libraries by transmitting release data

A system for keeping a library dynamically updated, the system comprising:

• a transmission infrastructure;
• a plurality of boxes configured to provide media services, each of the boxes maintaining the library including a plurality of titles, wherein the transmission infrastructure is capable of broadcasting or multicasting a release in a data package to all of the boxes, should all of the boxes be available to receive at least a portion of the data package, and
• wherein the release includes at least a new title to update the library, and not every one of the boxes caches an identical portion of the data package.

A method for keeping a library dynamically updated, the method comprising:

• transmitting, periodically or at a predefined time and via a transmission infrastructure, data packages respectively pertaining to a pluralilty of titles, wherein the data packages were previously transmitted in one or more releases to boxes in service,
• wherein at least a new box is configured to receive the data packages and retain some or all of the data packages in accordance with instructions from a server computing device configured to manage media services to the boxes as well as the new box, and
• wherein the library in the new box is updated accordingly In response to the retained some or all of the data packages.