Patent ID: 7684672

Claim:
A system for recording and storing a program broadcast in at least one channel, said system comprising: one or more slave apparatus for setting a program for timer recording when said slave apparatus is instructed to set the program for timer recording, and recording the program at a time when the program set for timer recording is broadcast; and a master apparatus for selecting a slave apparatus to record a program such that a plurality of timer recording settings are not made at one time in one apparatus, when the program to be recorded is determined, and instructing the selected slave apparatus to set the program for timer recording, wherein said master apparatus has means for, if a slave apparatus to record a program cannot be selected, rearranging timer recording settings made in the slave apparatus to retain a slave apparatus to record a program, instructing the retained slave apparatus to change timer recording settings and set the program for timer recording, and instructing other slave apparatus in which timer recording settings are changed to change timer recording settings, and wherein each of said slave apparatus has means for, if instructed to change timer recording settings by said master apparatus, changing timer recording settings.