METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PERSONALIZED VIDEO CHANNEL

摘要

A method for providing a personalized stream by combining programming segments available from broadcast streams on a digital television system together with programming provided over additional on demand streams is described. The system allows the limited bandwidth of digital television systems such as digital cable or digital satellite to be used to support more flexible programming based on user requests. A portion of the bandwidth of the digital television system is set aside as on demand streams for user requested programming. The user selects programs of interest and the shows are recorded either when broadcast or when the requested program is transmitted over an on demand stream. Also, a method for scheduling the use of the on demand streams according to requests is described. This allows the usage of the on demand streams to provide the most requested programming not available on the broadcast streams.