Patent ID: 7664374

Claim:
A digital convergent recorder, comprising: tuners 121 and 122 for receiving digital broadcast signals, which broadcast signals are constructed according to a first moving picture compression format, from an outside thereof and for outputting digital broadcast data for the digital broadcast signals; an Analog-to-Digital (AD) converter 111 for receiving analog Video/Audio (A/V) signals, for converting the analog A/V signals into digital A/V signals and for outputting the digital A/V signals; a first moving picture encoder 112 for encoding the output digital A/V signals of the AD converter into a first moving picture data according to a first moving picture compression format and for outputting the first moving picture data; a storage medium access unit 125 for receiving the digital broadcast data and the first moving picture data, for storing the digital broadcast data and the first moving picture data in a storage device, and for outputting moving picture file data from the storage device; moving picture decoders 123 and 124 for receiving the digital broadcast data and the moving picture file data, for decoding the digital broadcast data and the moving picture file data into a uncompressed moving picture data according to a first moving picture decoding format corresponding to the first moving picture compression format, and for outputting the uncompressed moving picture data; a second moving picture encoder 113 for encoding the output digital A/V signals of the AD converter and the uncompressed moving picture data of the moving picture decoders into a second moving picture data according to a second moving picture compression format that is suitable for Internet transmission and has a compression ratio higher than that of the first moving picture compression format, and for outputting the second moving picture data; and a network access unit 114 for transmitting the second moving picture data from the second moving picture encoder to an outside thereof via the Internet.