Patent ID: 8458753

Claim:
A system for distributing video programming on-demand, comprising: a plurality of video signal processing devices, each said device having a plurality of video display resolution capabilities and generating a capabilities profile relating at least in part to said video resolution capabilities, and receive video programming signals; a video-on-demand server to receive said capabilities profile from individual ones of said devices and identify on-demand video programming that is compatible with individual ones of said capabilities profiles; and a network connecting said video signal processing devices to said video on-demand server, and configured to transmit said capabilities profiles and information relating to said identified compatible on-demand video programming between said video signal processing devices and said video on-demand server; wherein said video-on-demand server: receives from a first one of said individual ones of said devices a first request for a particular content in Standard Definition (SD) format, said first device comprising SD video resolution capability and High Definition (HD) video resolution capability; receives from a second one of said individual ones of said devices a second request for said particular content in HD format; and in response to said requests, transmits to said first and second ones of said individual ones of said devices said particular content in HD format, said HD video display resolution capability being common to said first and second devices via said network.