Patent ID: 7783157

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a television broadcast; a recording and reproducing unit configured to record image data of the broadcast program received by the receiving unit on a recording medium, and reproduce the image data from the recording medium; an output unit configured to output the image data of the broadcast program received by the receiving unit and the image data reproduced from the recording medium to a display device; a designating unit configured to designate one of a plurality of channel numbers; a forming unit configured to allocate different channel numbers to a plurality of first information each indicating a different broadcast channel and a second information indicating a condition for searching the image data which is not yet reproduced among the plurality of image data recorded on the recording medium and to form a channel information including the plurality of channel numbers, the plurality of first information and the second information allocated to the plurality of channel numbers; and a control unit configured to control the receiving unit and the recording and reproducing unit in accordance with the channel number designated by the designating unit and the channel information, wherein the control unit causes the receiving unit to receive a broadcast program of the broadcast channel indicated by the first information allocated to the designated channel number if the first information is allocated to the designated channel number, and causes the recording and reproducing unit to select the image data which is not yet reproduced in accordance with the condition indicated by the second information allocated to the designated channel number among the plurality of image data recorded on the recording medium and reproduce the selected image data from the recording medium if the second information is allocated to the designated channel number.