Patent ID: 8254759

Claim:
A broadcast signal processing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing an externally received broadcast signal on a hard disc drive, comprising: a broadcast signal receiving part for receiving a broadcast signal, and demodulating and dividing the received broadcast signal into a video signal and an audio signal; a hard disc drive comprising a file allocation table (FAT) and a data region; and a control part for recording, searching and reproducing the audio signal and video signal with respect to the hard disc drive based on a single FAT file system, and adding one single identifiable temporary file termination data to an end of updated data when the file allocation table is updated such that a file of said single FAT file system recorded in the hard disc drive comprises said one single identifiable temporary file termination data at said end of updated data, and converting the one identifiable temporary file termination data into a normal file termination data according to a FAT data conversion such that, while the one identifiable temporary file termination data is converted into the normal file termination data, video signal and audio signal data recorded separate of the one identifiable temporary file termination data are not converted, wherein the normal file termination data corresponds to a recording stop signal.