Patent ID: 8364007
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for improving storage efficiency for a digital video recorder, the method comprising: responsive to the digital video recorder preparing to record a television programming, determining, by the digital video recorder, whether the television programming is being presented on a high definition channel; responsive to the digital video recorder determining that the television programming is being presented on a high definition channel, determining, by the digital video recorder, whether content of the television programming being presented on the high definition channel originates from a standard definition channel; responsive to the digital video recorder determining that the content of the television programming being presented on the high definition channel originates from a standard definition channel, determining, by the digital video recorder, whether an automatic disc saver option to record the content of the television programming is selected; responsive to the digital video recorder determining that an automatic disc saver option to record the content of the television programming is selected, determining, by the digital video recorder, whether a corresponding standard definition channel to the high definition channel is available to record the content of the television programming from; responsive to the digital video recorder determining that a corresponding standard definition channel to the high definition channel is available to record the content of the television programming from, recording, by the digital video recorder, the content of the television programming in a standard definition resolution from the corresponding standard definition channel; responsive to the digital video recorder determining that the content of the television programming is not available on a corresponding standard definition channel, downscaling, by the digital video recorder, the content of the television programming being presented on the high definition channel from a high definition resolution to the standard definition resolution; and responsive to the digital video recorder downscaling the content of the television programming presented on the high definition channel from the high definition resolution to the standard definition resolution, recording, by the digital video recorder, the content of the television programming in the standard definition resolution.