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Home digital audiovisual information recording and playback system

  • US 6,182,126 B1
  • Filed: 06/12/1997
  • Issued: 01/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A home digital audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus comprising:

  • a microprocessor device;

    a memory communicating with the microprocessor device, the memory storing a library of audiovisual information for reproduction;

    a display communicating with the microprocessor device via a first digital interface;

    audio reproduction structure communicating with the microprocessor device via a second digital interface, the second digital interface comprising a microphone interface; and

    a telecommunications interface coupleable with a main server for remote downloading of digital data corresponding to selected audiovisual information, wherein the microprocessor device controls the display to effect operation of the apparatus and selection of audiovisual information in one of three modes in which the apparatus reproduces audiovisual information stored in the storage with at least one of the display and the audio reproduction structure in a first mode, enables remote downloading of digital data after being ordered via the telecommunications interface in a second mode, and mixes analog data from a microphone via the microphone interface with the reproduced audiovisual information stored in the storage in a third mode.

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