Patent ID: 9094724
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a recording device, audio/video content from a plurality of audio/video sources, wherein each of the plurality of audio/video sources corresponds to a channel; compressing, at the recording device, audio/video content received from each of the plurality of audio/video sources, the compressing including using a first data rate to compress first audio/video content received from a first audio/video source and using a second data rate that is different from the first data rate to compress second audio/video content received from a second audio/video source; storing the compressed audio/video content into corresponding portions of one or more storage devices at the recording device; and playing back, by the recording device, from a first portion of the one or more storage devices, the compressed first audio/video content, wherein the compressed first audio/video content in the first portion is not overwritten when a viewer changes from a first channel that corresponds to the first audio/video source to a second channel that corresponds to the second audio/video source.