System for providing video-on-demand services in wireless network environment and method therefor

A system for providing video-on-demand (VOD) services in a wireless network environment, the system comprising:

• a VOD terminal which displays video information;
• a wireless telecommunications server which provides a service menu for selection by the VOD terminal;
• a VOD server which provides service information related to a VOD item selected by the VOD terminal from the service menu provided by the wireless telecommunications server;
• an encoder which encodes video content input into the VOD server into a first format type to be stored in the VOD server;
• and
• a converter which converts non-video content input into the VOD server into a second format type to be stored in the VOD server,
• wherein the VOD server comprises:
• a first storage unit that stores video information input into the VOD server;
• a second storage unit that stores non-video information input into the VOD server;
• a first common gateway interface that converts the stored video information into image files for wireless telecommunications;
• a second common gateway interface that converts the stored non-video information into wireless markup language files for wireless telecommunications;
• and
• a third storage unit that stores the image files and the wireless markup language files.