Patent ID: 7298966
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording device for receiving a digital broadcast, which is a sequential transmission of a plurality of packets, and for recording groups of the plurality of received packets onto a recording medium in response to a record request made by a user viewing a playback of the digital broadcast, wherein the playback of the digital broadcast includes a buffering delay associated with an accumulation of a group of the plurality of packets of the digital broadcast in a playback buffer and associated with a conversion of the group of packets into video frames to be played back, said recording device comprising: a record buffer operable to store the groups of the plurality of packets of the digital broadcast; a copying unit operable to receive and copy the groups of the plurality of packets of the digital broadcast into said record buffer; and a recording unit operable to, when the user makes the record request, record one group of packets of the groups of packets stored in said record buffer onto the recording medium and operable to further record subsequent groups of packets, being subsequent groups of packets from the sequential transmission following the one group of packets which are subsequently copied into said record buffer by said copying unit, onto the recording medium, wherein: