TIME-INTERLEAVED SIMULCAST FOR TUNE-IN REDUCTION

摘要

A system and method for providing faster tuning into a chosen program in a time- sliced multicast and/or broadcast transmission environment. Multimedia data of the same source material but of different transmission and presentation characteristics are coded and compressed. According to various embodiments, simulcast streams of a program are time-sliced, placed maximally apart from each other in terms of transmission time, and sent over the channel.