摘要 |
A video-on-demand system is comprised of a source station which transmits video signals of different channels on an optical transmission line to a number of subscriber terminals in accordance with subscriber requests. The source station includes a multiplexing unit which generates a frequency division multiplexed signal from the video signals in such a manner that vertical synchronizations of the video signals of different channels are in accordance with each other, and transmits the multiplexed signal to each subscriber terminal. Each subscriber terminal includes a transmitting unit which transmits a control signal indicative of a subscriber request to the source station at a frequency band different from frequency bands of the video signals of the frequency division multiplexed signal, the control signal being transmitted during a vertical blanking period of the video signals.
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