Patent ID: 7256840
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital broadcast signal translator comprising: a tuner tuned to receive an RF digital broadcast signal on a first selected channel; a demodulator arranged to provide a baseband signal from the RF digital broadcast signal; a data replacer arranged to modify the baseband signal by replacing a first NTSC channel data component in the baseband signal with a second NTSC channel data component different from the first NTSC channel data component, wherein the second NTSC data component is not contained in the received RF digital broadcast signal; and a modulator arranged to modulate the baseband signal including the second NTSC data component for transmission as a digital broadcast signal on a second selected channel different from the first selected channel, wherein the second NTSC channel data component specifies an analog NTSC channel which is newly assigned to a corresponding source of the digital broadcast signal.