AUDIOVISUAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

摘要

Audiovisual distribution system in which each of the audiovisual units (8) includes means for interactively communicating with the user for selecting a piece or a menu, payment means, a computer network card, a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system comprising at least a hard disc access management task. The order for performing a selected piece is processed as a hard disc sequential access task. The hard disc is declared as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the unit, enabling a request to be sent through the network to a server (9) for processing thereof.