| 摘要 |
<p>A video-on-demand system in which an optical disk can be used to configure an optical disk player without a hard-drive memory to operate as a video-on-demand player. The server of the system makes use of a unique identifier for the disk so as to store profiles of the history of viewing video-on-demand programmes for the users of the respective disks. Recommendations of video-on-demand programmes can be made on the basis of the stored profiles. Furthermore, video-on-demand programmes can be provided in a first layer of a multi-layer page wherein overlay images relating to advertising content can be provided in another layer. Similarly, overlay images corresponding to respective control functions for the video-on-demand stream can be provided in other layers.</p> |
