Patent ID: 8320745

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording at least either a video or an audio signal of a program in accordance with reservation information, said recording apparatus comprising: an acquisition block configured to acquire program information about said program, wherein said program information includes a program information ID specific to said program information; a calculation block configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a program name included in said reservation information and the program name described in said program information acquired by said acquisition block; a changing block configured to change said reservation information using said program information about the program determined by said degree of similarity, said changing block further changing said reservation information based on the program information about the program corresponding to program identification information included in said reservation information; a recording reservation management block configured to determine whether program information ID in said program information as part of said reservation information matches said program information ID in said acquired program information; and a recording control block configured to record at least either the video or the audio signal of said program in accordance with said reservation wherein, while recording is in progress in accordance With said reservation information, said recording control block compares the program identification information included in said reservation information with the program identification information about the currently broadcast program, said recording control block further stopping temporarily, resuming, or terminating the ongoing recording depending on an outcome of the comparison, wherein when a different program having different program identification is inserted into the currently broadcast program, the recording of said program is put on hold for a duration of said different program.