Patent ID: 7209632
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording/viewing support apparatus for supporting recording or viewing of a program selected by a user as a desired program from among programs scheduled to be aired as digital broadcasts, said apparatus comprising: program specifying information obtaining means for obtaining program specifying information that specifies the desired program based on an operation by the user; weather forecast information obtaining means for obtaining, based on the program specifying information, weather forecast information for a relevant weather at a location where the digital broadcast will be received during a broadcast time period of the desired program as relevant weather forecast information; determining means for determining, based on the relevant weather forecast information, whether or not the relevant weather will be so bad as to degrade the desired program in image quality or sound quality; and notifying means for giving, when said determining means determines that the relevant weather will be bad, a notice of a possibility of degradation in image quality or sound quality of the desired program.