Patent ID: 7209639
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus which records a program content provided together with program information by broadcast, said apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the program content and the program information; a recording unit configured to record a program content on a recording medium at an arbitrary recording rate, the recording unit having an ordinal recording mode for recording at an actual time period and a high speed recording mode for recording at a speed faster than the actual time period; a first detecting unit configured to detect a recording capacity of the recording medium; a second detecting unit configured to detect an extension of a broadcast time of the program content based on the program information to set a program extension mode; a recording rate deciding unit including a determining unit configured to determine an extension time period in the program extension mode, a calculating unit configured to calculate a recording time period based on the extension time period and a preset recording time period and a deciding unit configured to decide a recording rate based on the program recording time period and the recording capacity; a first control unit configured to make the program content record on the recording medium by setting the recording unit to the ordinal recording mode; a second control unit configured to set the recording unit to the high speed mode in the program extension mode; a third control unit configured to, in the set high speed mode, re-compress and re-record program content previously recorded on the recording medium at the recording rate to form an available area, and to compress and record a successive part of the program content on the available area at the recording rate.