Patent ID: 8655154

Claim:
A television signal recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit capable of making recordings of television signals, the television signal recording apparatus being arranged to store metadata representing information in respect of the recordings including a channel from which a recording was made and a recording time at which the recording was made; and a recordings display generator arranged to generate a signal for display on a display device of a graphical display of the recordings, the graphical display comprising graphical objects representing respective recordings and arranged in two dimensions, the graphical objects being ordered in a first dimension on a basis of channels represented by the metadata in respect of the respective recordings and ordered in a second dimension on a basis of recording times represented by the metadata in respect of the respective recordings, along a time axis which includes discontinuities at times when no recording has been made, the discontinuities being graphically represented, wherein the discontinuities are graphically represented by a graphical symbol positioned between the graphical objects representing respective recordings, and wherein said graphical symbols are different according to a period of discontinuity.