Patent ID: 8024757

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiver comprising: storing means for storing a plurality of contents of a digital broadcast, and storing attributes of the contents on a first recording medium, wherein the stored attributes of the contents include a genre name of each content and a title name of each content; extracting means for automatically extracting contents from a plurality of the contents recorded out of a video-recording date-and-hour order on the first recording medium based on a user-input attribute input by a user, wherein, when the user-input attribute is a genre name of the content, extracting means extracts the content having the same genre name as the genre name input by the user, and when the user-input attribute is a title name of the content, extracting means extracts the content having the same title name as the title name input by the user; and selecting means for selecting a second recording medium; examining means for examining for an available disk capacity of the second recording medium and for determining whether the available disk capacity of the second recording medium is sufficient for contents extracted by the extracting means; arranging means for automatically rearranging the extracted contents, recorded out of the video-recording date-and-hour order and meeting the user-input attribute, in the video-recording date-and-hour order without a user's manual operation, for recording onto the second recording medium, when the available disk capacity of the second recording medium is sufficient, wherein the video-recording date-and-hour indicates when the extracted content is recorded.