Patent ID: 7529164

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a receiving portion that receives broadcast data; an extracting portion that extracts video data, audio data, and time information from the broadcast data; a counting portion that generates system time information from the time information; a clock generating portion that generates a clock signal in accordance with which the counting portion is operated; a decoding portion that decodes, using the clock signal generated by the clock generating portion, the video data and the audio data that are extracted by the extracting portion; a recording portion that records the broadcast data; and a control portion that operates to record, as needed and in the recording portion, a control variable based on which a frequency of the clock signal generated by the clock generating portion is controlled when the decoding portion decodes the video data and the audio data, and to control the clock generating portion by using the control variable so that the system time information generated by the counting portion synchronizes with the time information as extracted upon reception of the broadcast data.