Cable television system selectively distributing pre-recorded video and audio messages
CA 1331053 C · Owner: Liberate Technologies Canada Ltd. · Inventors: Hart, George Maynard; Coumans, Peter Johannes Maria; Pocock, Terrence Henry
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A method of, and a system for selectively, delivering still television video with accompanying audio to home subscribers over a cable television system for advertising, promotional or educational purposes. A maximum number of home subscribers can interactively request presentations of their own choosing to be displayed on their home television sets. Only one standard television channel is required for transmission of still video with accompanying audio to serve 300 concurrent users. No equipment is required in the subscriber's home. The video is presented as still frames from one of a number of videodisc players transmitted over one television channel during the appropriate time interval of …
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- Granted July 26, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 26, 2011.
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