Patent ID: 8824865
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for a digital video recorder (DVR) incorporating an integrated digital video device (DVD) player/recorder, comprising: accepting analog and/or digital television broadcast signals by a plurality of input signal tuners in a DVR, each of the input signal tuners of the plurality of input signal tuners is individually tuned to a specific broadcast signal; storing specific broadcast signals as digital program material on at least one storage device at the DVR; wherein a DVD player/recorder resides in the DVR; determining pointers to frames within a broadcast signal at specific intervals within the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal received from an input signal tuner among the plurality of input signal tuners, as the broadcast signal is being stored as digital program material; storing the determined pointers as indexes along with the digital program material on the at least one storage device; receiving a selection of one or more program material stored on the at least one storage device to be transferred to the DVD player/recorder; writing the one or more selected program material along with associated indexes stored in periodic navigation packets onto a DVD inserted into the DVD player/recorder, the writing step places a serial number or encoded key specific to the DVR on the inserted DVD; and upon detection of a recorded DVD being inserted into the DVD player/recorder: