Patent ID: 6253024
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus for recording a digital video signal on a record medium, comprising:receiving means for receiving an external digital video signal via a serial digital interface line, said receiving means including means for detecting errors in the received digital video signal and for adding to said digital video signal error flags identifying respective detected errors;producing means including means for correcting the detected errors in said digital video signal in response to the added error flags to produce a corrected digital video signal, and for producing a recordable digital video signal from said corrected digital video signal;recording means for recording said recordable digital video signal on a record medium; andconverting means for converting the error corrected digital video signal to an error corrected analog video signal and supplying said error corrected analog video signal as an output, said converting means being operable to supply said error corrected analog video signal as an output simultaneously with the recording of said recordable digital video signal by said recording means.