Patent ID: 7596302

Claim:
A mobile terrestrial digital broadcast receiver having the recording and reproducing functions, comprising: means for registering a recording reservation information including an area information in addition to the information for specifying a recording reserved program (hereinafter referred to as the recording reserved program specifying information) having a broadcast wave frequency corresponding to the program reserved by a user for recording, a stream ID, a service ID and a program ID; means for starting the receiving of the broadcast wave in preparation for a video recording and determining whether the area information included in the received broadcast wave is identical with the area information contained in the intended recording reservation information at a predetermined time before starting the recording of a reserved program specified by an arbitrary recording reservation information (hereinafter referred to as the intended recording reservation information); means for selecting a program of which the recording is reserved (hereinafter referred to as the recording reserved program) and starting the video recording based on the recording reserved program specifying information contained in the intended recording reservation information in the case where the area information contained in the received broadcast wave is identical with the area information at the time of the recording reservation; means for preparing a channel list and determining whether the channel list thus prepared contains the stream ID of the intended recording reservation information in the case where the area information contained in the received broadcast wave is different from the area information in the intended recording reservation information; and means for tuning to the broadcast frequency of the stream ID in the intended recording reservation information and selecting the recording reserved program based on the service ID and the program ID in the intended recording reservation information thereby to start the video recording in the case where the channel list prepared contains the stream ID of the intended recording reservation information.