Patent ID: 8280228
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording and reproducing apparatus, comprising: a tuner; a recording and reproducing unit configured to record a television program selected by the tuner into a recording medium and to reproduce the television program recorded in the recording medium; and a system controller that includes a program identification information storage unit configured to store, in a case where an automatic recording function, whereby a television program next week that has a same broadcast day of week, broadcast time zone, and channel as a watched or record-reserved television program is automatically recorded, is set and when the television program is watched or when the television program is reservation-recorded, program identification information including a broadcast day of the week, a broadcast time zone and a channel of the television program into a memory, and a program recording unit configured to cause, when a main power source of the apparatus is off and when a time reaches a record start time of a television program corresponding to program identification information stored in the memory, the recording and reproducing unit, which is supplied with electric power, to record the television program into the recording medium.