Patent ID: 8042135

Claim:
A method of controlling an apparatus for receiving an electronic program guide (EPG), the method comprising: storing, in memory, EPG information arranged according to broadcast channel and broadcast time, the EPG information indicating a plurality of broadcast programs; displaying, based on the stored EPG information, an EPG menu including a broadcast program setting area that includes at least one user channel and delineated areas discriminating between broadcast programs that are registerable and non-registerable onto the at least one user channel, wherein the user channel registerable broadcast programs are adaptively delineated according to a time slot of the at least one user channel that is referenced for registering a broadcast program; identifying a broadcast program, that is delineated to indicate it is a user channel registerable broadcast program, to register the identified broadcast program for preprogrammed playback in the referenced time slot of the at least one user channel; and registering the identified broadcast program in the referenced time slot of the at least one user channel by storing, in memory, program registration information corresponding to the identified broadcast program, wherein the program registration information corresponding to the identified broadcast program is obtained from the displayed EPG menu.