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(57) ABSTRACT A system and method for providing faster tuning into a cho sen program in a time-sliced multicast and/or broadcast trans mission environment. Multimedia data of the same source material but of different transmission and presentation char acteristics are coded and compressed. According to various embodiments, simulcast streams of a program are time sliced, placed maximally apart from each other in terms of transmission time, and sent over the channel.