Patent ID: 7079176

Claim:
A system for providing live interactive digital programming, comprising: a means for receiving video signals from a plurality of video cameras, one or more of the cameras relaying a different predetermined view of a live event; a means for producing one or more audio signals corresponding to the live event; a means for generating one or more graphics signals; at least one digital compression device, connected to the receiving and producing means, for digitally compressing the video signals from a plurality of video cameras, one or more graphics signals and one or more audio signals; a means for processing, connected to the compression device, wherein the processing means creates a set of data commands which link together the various audio, graphics and video signals, the data commands including branching commands; a digital multiplexer, connected to the digital compression device, for multiplexing the video, graphics and audio signals, and the data codes into a combined digital program stream; and a means for transmitting the combined digital program stream.