DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE OF BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS

摘要

A method for distributing broadcast transmissions to client devices, which method comprises receiving a broadcast transmission (12) from one or several sources, distributing the received broadcast transmission (12) to client devices (16) over a communication network, storing the received broadcast transmissions, and distributing the stored broadcast transmissions to client devices (16). The received broadcast transmissions (12) are stored as clips of a predetermined length in a long-term data storage (13) and a short-term data storage (14), where the length of clips (17_1, 17_m) to be stored in the long-term data storage (13) is longer than the length of clips (18_1, 18_n) to be stored in the short-term data storage (14).