Broadband data broadcasting service

A method of distributing data, said method comprising:

• broadcasting a first plurality of multimedia streams across a first broadcast medium;
• broadcasting a second plurality of multimedia streams across a second broadcast medium;
• receiving said first and second plurality of multimedia streams in a data broadcast receiver system, said data broadcast receiver system having a first receiver circuit and a second receiver circuit for receiving said first and second plurality of multimedia streams across said first and second broadcast medium respectively;
• caching a subset of said first and second plurality of multimedia streams in a single unified cache in said data broadcast receiver system;
• and
• presenting a unified data service to a client system coupled to said data broadcast receiver system that comprises said subset of said first and second plurality of multimedia streams cached in said single unified cache on said data broadcast receiver system.

A method of providing data to a client computer system from a data broadcast receiver, said method comprising:

• receiving a first data broadcast stream from a first broadcast medium in said data broadcast receiver;
• receiving a second data broadcast stream from a second broadcast medium while simultaneously receiving said first data broadcast stream in said data broadcast receiver;
• caching data from said first and second data broadcast streams in a single unified cache in said data broadcast receiver system;
• receiving information requests from said client computer system coupled to said data broadcast receiver system;
• and
• responding to said information requests by selectively providing information from said single unified cache in said data broadcast receiver system.