Method and System of Providing Signals
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1. A method of supporting operation of legacy customer equipment in a system where at least a portion of the legacy customer equipment receives non-supported signals, the method comprising:
- configuring a transcoding unit for operation with the legacy customer equipment, the transcoding unit configured to transcode non-supported signals to supported signals which are compatible with the customer equipment.
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Abstract
A method and system of supporting operation of customer equipment in systems having at least a portion of their signals being transported according to standards which are not supported by the customer equipment.
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1. A method of supporting operation of legacy customer equipment in a system where at least a portion of the legacy customer equipment receives non-supported signals, the method comprising:
configuring a transcoding unit for operation with the legacy customer equipment, the transcoding unit configured to transcode non-supported signals to supported signals which are compatible with the customer equipment. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of transcoding dissimilar payloads carried in a first transport stream, the method comprising:
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demultiplexing the first transport stream to recover first and second payloads; transcoding the second payload to a protocol associated with the first payload if a protocol associated with the second payload is dissimilar from the protocol associated with the first payload; and multiplexing the first payload and the transcoded second payload to a second transport stream. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system of providing digital television signals to a media output device, the system comprising:
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a host configured to decode signals carried in payloads of a first payload type for playback on the media output device; and a unit configured for transcoding digital television signals carried in payloads of a second payload type to the first payload type for output to the host, the second payload type being associated with protocols dissimilar to protocols associated with the first payload type. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A transcoding unit for use with legacy settop boxes (STBs) which only supports playback of digital television (DTV) signals encoded according to non-advance video compression (AVC) standards and not DTV signals encoded according to AVC standards, the transcoding unit comprising:
a transcoder configured to transcode DTV signals associated with the AVC standards to DTV signals associated with non-AVC standards so as to permit playback of the transcoded DTV signals with the legacy STB. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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