Patent ID: 7162145

Claim:
A multi-media system comprising: a receiver for receiving a multi-program transport stream and a recording/reproducing device for recording/reproducing the multi-program transport stream, said receiver comprising: a first signal processor for parsing program specific information (PSI) of the received multi-program transport stream and decoding a video signal and an audio signal of an intended program based on the parsed PSI; an input device for entering program information of intended programs; and a first digital interface for receiving program information of an intended program from said input device, generating a program information control command based on the program information of the intended program, and transmitting the multi-program transport stream provided by said first signal processor and the program information control command; and said recording/reproducing device comprising: a second digital interface for receiving the program information control command and the multi-program transport stream from said from said first digital interface and decoding the program information control command to obtain the program information of the intended program; and a second signal processor for extracting the intended program from the multi-program transport stream received by said second digital interface, based on the program information, and recording the extracted program on recording media during a recording mode, and generating a reproduced transport stream which is provided to the second digital interface during a playback mode.