Patent ID: 7756395

Claim:
A video recording and reproducing apparatus to receive a broadcast signal and to record the received broadcast signal on a recording medium or to output and display a playback signal of the apparatus onto a display, the apparatus comprising: a memory to store a recording pattern table which organizes record information including a record day of the week, the record day of the week being the same in a plurality of previous recording operations selected by a user to thereby establish a recording pattern, a record start time of a program, the record start time being the same in the plurality of previous recording operations, and an accumulated number of repetitions in which the same record day of the week and record start time are selected, the memory further storing a guide message to guide the recording pattern; and a controller to compare a current time with the record start time of the recording pattern table stored in the memory and to display the guide message on the display if the current time and the record start time correspond to each other.