Patent ID: 8677424

Claim:
A method of operating a jukebox system comprising: at least one jukebox device, wherein said at least one jukebox device includes at least one processor, a storage device for storing audiovisual information that is reproducable by the at least one jukebox device in response to user requests, an audio system for playing audio, a display configured to display video, and a communication system configured to enable the at least one jukebox device to communicate through an audiovisual distribution network, and a server remote from the at least one jukebox device, the server being configured to provide services to said at least one jukebox device, wherein said server and each said jukebox device are configured to communicate with each other through said distribution network; and at least one remote control device for each said jukebox device, the method comprising: receiving, at a control circuit of one said jukebox device, a signal from the associated remote control device, the signal specifying one of whether that jukebox device is to be activated or deactivated, and whether a payment device of that jukebox device is to be activated or deactivated; and either causing the jukebox device that receives the signal to itself become either activated or deactivated, or causing the payment device of the jukebox device that receives the signal to become either activated or deactivated, in dependence on the signal.