Broadcast system and method for error correction using redundant data

A method for a receiver, comprising:

• receiving, by broadcast receiver circuitry, broadcast data representing real-time content and non-real-time content;
• receiving, by circuitry, user confirmation that receipt of redundancy data from a server is permitted prior requesting the redundancy data
• requesting and receiving, by second receiver circuitry, redundancy data from a server;
• storing, in the circuitry, the broadcast data received by the broadcast receiver circuitry;
• and
• synchronizing, by the circuitry, the redundancy data into an output data stream of forward error correction (FEC) packets and to reconstruct the broadcast data with the redundancy data,
• wherein the broadcast data is received with a degree of quality, and the quality of the broadcast data is increased, using the redundancy data, to a degree that allows quasi error free decoding.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions that, when executed by circuitry of a receiver, cause the circuitry to perform a method comprising:

• receiving broadcast data representing real-time content and non-real-time content;
• receiving user confirmation that receipt of redundancy data from a server is permitted prior requesting the redundancy data;
• requesting and receiving redundancy data from a server;
• storing the data received;
• and
• synchronizing the redundancy data into an output data stream of forward error correction (FEC) packets and to reconstruct the broadcast data with the redundancy data,
• wherein the broadcast data is received with a degree of quality, and the quality of the broadcast data is increased, using the redundancy data, to a degree that allows quasi error free decoding.