METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FEE-BASED COMMERCIAL-FREE TELEVISION VIEWING

摘要

A fee-based commercial television broadcast system is provided, wherein non-theatrical data is removed from transmission signals containing theatrical data and non-theatrical data. An input video signal is received by a videoprocessing system. The input video signal includes information relating to non-theatrical images', such as commercials, beginning and end points, as well as the total length of such non-theatrical images in a particular program. A broadcast television service provider offers this information for a fee. This information is then used by the video processing system to enable real-time recording and delayed playback such that a user may view the program in one continuous block without non-theatrical data interruption.