Patent ID: 8229279

Claim:
A recording device in which time of program data to be recorded under one title is limited within a first time period, comprising: a receiving unit receiving the program data from a broadcast station; an operation input unit receiving a user operation; a storage unit having areas for storing at least two titles, and storing said received program data as data of either title; a recording control unit for recording, when the user sets programmed recording of a recording time longer than said first time period, the program data for said first time period from the start of recording time-sequentially under a first title, and recording the program data within said first time period minus a second time period, from the time point when said first time period elapsed from the start of recording, time-sequentially under a second title; a combining unit combining said first title and said second title to form one combined title; and an editing unit for making shorter the length of said combined title, if the time of program data recorded under said combined title exceeds said first time period; wherein said recording control unit records program data for said second time period from the time point the second time period before the lapse of said first time period from said start of recording, not only under said first title but also at a start portion of said second title; the program data received by said receiving unit includes CM portions, with time interval between said CM portions being equal to or shorter than said second time period; said combining unit identifies identical CM portions in the program data recorded redundantly under said first title and said second title, and forms said combined title by connecting a portion immediately preceding the start of said identified CM portion in said first title to a portion immediately succeeding the end of said identified CM portion in said second title; said editing unit identifies a CM portion of said combined title, removes said identified CM portion and closes up the removed portion; and said editing unit further removes, when the user designates a portion to be cut of said combined title through said operation input unit, said designated portion from said combined title and closes up said removed portion.