Patent ID: 8290344

Claim:
A video recording/reproducing apparatus configured to record a transport stream included within a digital broadcasting signal, with or without compression thereof, the video recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a receiver portion, configured to receive the transport stream of data in the digital broadcasting signal, including: video data, audio data, caption data, and data of a data broadcasting; and a recording portion, configured to record to a recording medium having a limited recording space, under a recording mode, selected from at least: a first recording mode of high vision recording, and a second recording mode of high vision recording with a higher compression than the first recoding mode; wherein when the first recording mode is selected, the recording portion records the transport stream of data received by the receiver portion, including: the video data, the audio data, the caption data, and the data of the data broadcasting; and wherein when the second recording mode is selected, the recording portion records the video data, the audio data, and the caption data, and automatically discards the data of the data broadcasting from the transport stream received by the receiver portion.