Patent ID: 8634693

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a guide information obtaining means for obtaining guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining means for obtaining series information for specifying a plurality of programs which belong to a series; a program data obtaining means for obtaining data of each of the plurality of programs; a program data storage section capable of storing the data of each of the plurality of programs; a program data recording means for storing the data of each of the plurality of programs obtained by the program data obtaining means in the program data storage section; a recording history storage section to store information about each of the plurality of programs whose data is stored in the program data storage section, as recording history information; and a detection means for detecting a recording status of at least one of the plurality of programs which belong to the series intended to be recorded, wherein the guide information obtaining means obtains the guide information according to a plurality of different delivery systems, wherein the program data obtaining means is capable of obtaining the data of each of the plurality of programs according to the plurality of delivery systems, wherein the detection means detects the recording status of at least one of the plurality of programs which belong to the series intended to be recorded based on the guide information according to the plurality of delivery systems obtained by the guide information obtaining means, the series information obtained by the series information obtaining means, and the recording history information stored in the recording history storage section, and wherein the detection means outputs information indicating (i) each respective program that belongs to the series arranged in an intended viewing order from a first program of the series to a last program of the series, (ii) whether said each respective program has been recorded or viewed, and (iii) a respective delivery system for said each respective program and (iv) pictorial information.