1. A system for transferring a direct broadcast satellite transmitter having an encoder and a direct broadcast satellite receiver having a decoder, comprising: said encoder including a segment selector for identifying a signal segment from the group of speech, audio, video and graphic signals, each selected segment comprising a representation of an information quantity; wherein said encoder includes a plurality of encoder libraries, one of said libraries containing a representation of a generic information quantity partly corresponding to said information quantity, a symbolic code for the representation of said generic information quantity, and a difference signal personalization layer including the difference between said information quantity and said generic information quantity; and said decoder having a second plurality of libraries corresponding to said plurality of encoder libraries, and one of said decoder libraries containing said generic information quantity, said symbolic code corresponding to said generic information quantity and said difference signal personalization layer.