Patent ID: 7239797

Claim:
A personal video recorder apparatus, comprising: a storage portion constituted of a non-volatile memory, said storage portion including a first area storing multimedia data, a second area different from said first area, and a third area, different from said first and second areas; a reproduction portion for reproducing the multimedia data stored in said storage portion; and a control portion causing the multimedia data to be recorded in said first area in said storage portion; wherein said control portion causes latest of storage position information which is information on a storage position in said first area, of the multimedia data stored in said first area, and latest of reproduction position information which is information on a reproduction position of the multimedia data stored in said first area, to be stored in said second area with a flag every prescribed time, and causes information corresponding to the latest of said storage position information and the latest of said reproduction position information in said second area to be stored in said third area.