Patent ID: 7558469

Claim:
A method of displaying recording timer conflicts in a television converter device, comprising: storing information regarding a first television program to be recorded using a given channel selecting resource; determining whether a second television program to be recorded requires the same channel selecting resource as the first program to be recorded; and displaying graphically that the first television program to be recorded and the second television program to be recorded require the same channel selecting resource; wherein said step of displaying graphically that the first television program to be recorded and the second television program to be recorded require the same channel selecting resource comprises: displaying a two dimensional grid of cells having a time axis representing show times and a timer axis representing timers for programs to be recorded; displaying a first timer for said first program to be recorded, wherein the first program is displayed as first timer cell wherein the graphical length of the first timer cell along the time axis corresponds to the temporal length of the first television program to be recorded; displaying a second timer for said second television program to be recorded, wherein the second program is displayed as a second timer cell wherein the graphical length of the second timer cell along the time axis corresponds to the temporal length of the second television program to be recorded; and, whereby a conflict is graphically displayed when the first timer cell and the second timer cell extend along at least some of the same portions of the time axis.