Patent ID: 8081859

Claim:
A recording device comprising: a receiving portion that receives electric waves of television broadcasting; a recording portion that records the television broadcasting; a channel information storing portion that stores channel information in association with a code number corresponding to a region, the channel information being used for selecting a television broadcasting to be received; a channel information setting portion that sets the channel information corresponding to the code number for the receiving portion; a current position identifying portion that obtains current position information from GPS (global positioning system) satellites; and a region identifying portion that decides a region of installation where the recording device is installed, based on the current position information, wherein the region identifying portion decides whether or not a distance between a position indicated by the current position information obtained by the current position identifying portion and a boundary line between a plurality of regions is a predetermined distance or shorter, if it is decided that the distance exceeds the predetermined distance, the channel information setting portion reads out a code number corresponding to the region of installation decided by the region identifying portion from the channel information storing portion, so as to set channel information corresponding to the code number thus read out for the receiving portion, and if it is decided that the distance is the predetermined distance or shorter, the region identifying portion identifies each of code numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of regions, receives a selection input of a code number to be used from among the code numbers thus identified, and sets channel information corresponding to the code number thus inputted for the receiving portion.