Patent ID: 7418193

Claim:
A video receiving and recording apparatus including: a tuner that receives a television broadcast on a specific channel; a television monitor that outputs the received television broadcast; recording means for recording the received television broadcast in a recording medium; an external memory that inputs the received television broadcast from the tuner; and a control section that exercises an operation control, the video receiving and recording apparatus comprising: short-time simple recording operating means for allowing a viewer of the video receiving and recording apparatus to promptly perform an operation for recording a specific scene of the television broadcast in said recording medium in a short time range while the viewer is viewing the television broadcast; and operation mode setting means for setting the video receiving and recording apparatus in a short-time simple recording mode in which the video receiving and recording apparatus can operate so as to perform short-time simple recording for recording the specific scene of said television broadcast in the short time range according to an operation of said short-time simple recording operating means, wherein said operation mode setting means can determine whether to set the video receiving and recording apparatus in the short-time simple recording mode according to a selection of the viewer, and only when the video receiving and recording apparatus is set in said short-time simple recording mode, a signal of the television broadcast received by the tuner is processed through the external memory; and when the viewer operates said short-time simple recording operating means, the broadcast content, which is output to the television monitor since a time before the viewer operates said short-time simple recording operating means until a time after the viewer operates said short-time simple recording operating means, is recorded in the recording medium in a certain short time range.