Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network

An audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece, the audiovisual distribution system comprising:

• a central computer server including:
• a mass storage that stores a plurality of audiovisual pieces,
• a server network card that receives requests for said audiovisual pieces, and
• a server multitask operating system communicating with said mass storage and said server network card;
• a number of buffers linked to respective controller circuits associated to hardware devices,
• detection means for detecting tasks realization in each of said buffers;
• and
• a plurality of audiovisual devices, each including:
• at least one of an audio unit and a video unit that effect play of an audiovisual piece,
• an interface unit that effects communication with a device user,
• a payment device,
• a device network card linked to said server network card, and
• a device multitask operating system module operatively coupled with respectively the audio unit and the video unit, said interface unit, said payment device, and said device network card,
• and wherein said device network card of each audiovisual device is declared to said device multitask operating system as a peripheral corresponding to a hard disk, said device multitask operating system having at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a piece resulting from a selection is processed as a hard disk sequential access task which makes the device network card send a request for said audiovisual pieces, in the form of a hard disk sequential access request, to the server network card, such that each audiovisual device does not include a storage medium for audiovisual pieces.