摘要 |
<p>A terrestrial base station including for providing at least near video-on-demand, includes an antenna for receiving a plurality of programs in the form of encoded signals from a satellite system, a decoder for decoding the signals, and a mass storage device coupled to the decoder, for storing at least some of the plurality of programs. A suitably programmed processor determines which of the plurality of programs to store in the mass storage device, based on predetermined criteria.</p> |