Patent ID: 8842973

Claim:
A method of providing a video-on-demand (VOD) service using VOD data available on a Blu-ray Disc (BD), the method comprising: receiving the VOD data extracted from the BD that was inserted into a BD player, wherein the received VOD data is used to obtain the VOD service available from a content server; preparing a menu of VOD selections and VOD metadata to be sent to the BD player based on the received VOD data, wherein the VOD data includes data about the BD that the BD player and the content server use to determine the VOD selections to present, wherein the VOD metadata comprises metadata indicating which of the VOD selections to be made from the menu should be displayed by the BD player based on a genre of original content stored on the BD and an identity of a user; and delivering content items selected by the user from the menu of the VOD selections.