Patent ID: 8160427
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a recording program for causing a computer to execute an operation, comprising: receiving each TV program identified by each piece of record-scheduled TV program information in a record-scheduled TV program information table and to record received TV program onto a storage unit; executing a first adding operation to add a piece of record-scheduled TV program information identifying a TV program, recording of which is designated by a user, to the record-scheduled TV program information table; automatically extracting a recommended TV program, recording of which is recommended, among TV programs scheduled to be broadcasted by a broadcasting station based on received electric program guide information; and executing a second adding operation to add a piece of record-scheduled TV program information identifying the recommended TV program to the record-scheduled TV program information table, and where the second adding operation does not add the piece of record-scheduled TV program information identifying the recommended TV program to the record-scheduled TV program information table when a free capacity of the storage unit is less than a first threshold or when a total amount of recommended TV programs in the storage unit exceeds a second threshold.