Patent ID: 7646435

Claim:
A television receiver for receiving a television signal and for supplying audio and/or video data of said received television signal in form of an MPEG TS over a communication link to at least one reproduction device that is situated at a separate, distant location from the television receiver, the television receiver comprising: an encoding unit for encoding said audio and/or video data of said received television signal for transmission to said reproduction device as a stream of encoded audio and/or video data; a memory for storing predetermined audio and/or video data in MPEG TS encoded form for replacing audio and/or video data missing due to a distortion of said received television signal; a detection unit for detecting distortion in the received television signal; and an insertion unit for inserting the stored predetermined audio and/or video data into the stream of said encoded audio and/or video data of said received television signal upon detection of a signal distortion by the detection unit.