Patent ID: 8453183

Claim:
A method of processing a satellite signal, the method comprising: receiving at a receiver from a satellite dish a satellite signal; removing an initial radio frequency portion from the satellite signal without substantially altering a sequence of media contents of a moving picture experts group portion of the satellite signal and without substantially altering a quality of the media contents of the moving picture experts group portion; removing an initial conditional access portion from the satellite signal without substantially altering the sequence of media contents of the moving picture experts group portion of the satellite signal; decoding the satellite signal at the receiver to produce a digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal that includes the moving picture experts group portion; correcting one or more detected errors in the moving picture experts group transport stream signal using error correction data of the satellite signal to generate a corrected digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal; encrypting the corrected digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal at the receiver to form an encrypted corrected digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal; sending the encrypted corrected digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal from the receiver to a modulator to convert the encrypted corrected digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal to vestigial sideband signals for transmission to devices, wherein the vestigial sideband signals include an 8-VSB signal and a 16-VSB signal; multicasting the 8-VSB signal to one or more first subscriber devices via a private access network; and multicasting the 16-VSB signal to one or more second subscriber devices via the private access network.