Patent ID: 7187841

Claim:
A reproducing system for receiving a selected in-reception data, and for reproducing the selected in-reception data or a data recorded in a recording means, said reproducing system comprising: an operating unit operable to provide a stop instruction to stop a reproduction of the selected in-reception data or the data recorded; a recording means for recording the selected in-reception data; a simultaneous selecting and reproducing means for selecting, according to a selection instruction, either the data recorded in said recording means or the selected in-reception data, and for simultaneously reproducing either the data recorded or the selected in-reception data selected according to the selection instruction; a recording continuing means for maintaining a reception of the selected in-reception data and for continuing the recording of the selected in-reception data until a condition for stopping said recording means from recording the selected in-reception data becomes satisfied by the stop instruction to stop the reproduction of the selected in-reception data or the data recorded, a recording capacity detecting means for detecting a recording capacity of said recording means; and an automatic period setting means for setting a prescribed period of time, during which said recording means continues to record the selected in-reception data, according to the recording capacity detected by said recording capacity detecting means.