To provide a video box suitable for the VOD(Video On Demand) system, based on the cable television.
The video box of this invention consists of a first signal processor that receives an input signal that includes an analog program signal and is transmitted from a cable television system, converts the analog program signal into a digital program signal, and compresses the digital program signal into a compression program signal according to a compression format, a storage device that stores the compressed program signal, a selection device that provides a selection signal to the storage device to allow the storage device to output an decompression signal of the compression program signal, and a second signal processor that decompresses the decompression signal into a broadcast signal according to a decompression format and transmits the broadcast signal to a media device, which broadcasts the broadcast signal.
HO WEN-JEN
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