Patent ID: 7483341

Claim:
An apparatus for recording a broadcast program on an optical disk, comprising: a broadcast reception section that receives a broadcast signal containing programs broadcasted from a broadcast station; a recording setup section that specifies a program to be recorded on an optical disk, contained in the received broadcast signal; an information acquisition section that acquires attribute information associated to and serving to identify content of the specified program from an electronic program guide of the broadcasted programs, the electronic program guide being contained in the broadcast signal or being available from another source separate of the broadcast signal; and a recording/reproducing section that is operated to record the content of the specified program by forming a pattern of marks and spaces on a data recording face of the optical disk with an optical process of irradiating an optical beam onto the data recording face, and that is operated to form a visible image of the attribute information of the recorded content with the optical process on other area of the data recording face than the area where the content is recorded or on a label face reverse to the data recording face of the optical disk.