Patent ID: 8023798
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a demodulator which receives, with respect to a single program, high image quality first digital broadcasting data for a fixed receiver apparatus and low image quality second digital broadcasting data for a mobile receiver apparatus, and which demodulates the first digital broadcasting data and the second digital broadcasting data to obtain first program data for the fixed receiver apparatus and second program data for the mobile receiver apparatus; a recording controller which records, in a recording medium, the first program data and the second program data obtained by the demodulator; a connection detector which detects whether the mobile receiver apparatus is connected to the recording apparatus; a communication unit which, when a connection of the mobile receiver apparatus is detected by the connection detector, transfers the second program data recorded in the recording medium to the mobile receiver apparatus; a playback unit which, when a specifying instruction for specifying the first program data recorded in the recording medium and a playback instruction for reproducing the first program data recorded in the recording medium are input, reproduces the first program data specified by the specifying instruction; and a playback end detector which detects an end of playback of the first program data; wherein when the playback end detector detects the end of playback of the first program data, the communication unit transmits at least one of (i) a request to the mobile receiver apparatus to transfer the second program data back to the recording apparatus, and (ii) an instruction to delete the second program data on the mobile receiver apparatus.