Patent ID: RE40982

Claim:
A multi-media system for transferring a single program transport stream comprising: an input device for entering a program number of an intended program; a receiver including a first digital interface, the receiver receiving a multi-program transport stream and, when extracting only a single program transport stream of a program corresponding to the program number from the received multi-program transport stream, transferring the extracted single program transport stream together with a corrected program association table (PAT) including the program number and program information corresponding to the program number; and a recording/reproducing device including a second digital interface, for receiving the transferred extracted single program transport stream together with the corrected program association table and recording the single program transport stream transferred from the receiver via the second digital interface, for reproducing the recorded single program transport stream, and for transferring the reproduced single program transport stream to the receiver via the first digital interface, wherein receiving the single program transport stream together with the corrected program association table by the recording/reproducing device obviates need for a selection device associated with the recording/reproducing device to select a program for recording.