Patent ID: 8442378

Claim:
A video recording device comprising: a first recording/reproducing part that performs recording/reproducing with respect to a first recording medium in which video information corresponding to an analog television broadcast is stored; a first format identification circuit that identifies a broadcasting format of video information read from the first recording medium by the first recording/reproducing part; a second recording/reproducing part that performs recording/reproducing with respect to second recording medium different from the first recording medium; and a second format identification circuit that identifies a broadcasting format of video information to be recorded to the second recording medium by the second recording/reproducing part; a recording execution part that records video information read from the first recording medium to the second recording medium; and a format decision block that decides whether the broadcasting format identified by the second format identification circuit agrees with the broadcasting format identified by the first format identification circuit, wherein the video recording device records video information to the second recording medium according to the broadcasting format identified by the second format identification circuit, the first recording/reproducing part has the first format identification circuit, the second recording/reproducing part has the second format identification circuit, and when the recording execution part records the video information read from the first recording medium to the second recording medium, if the format decision block decides that the broadcasting formats identified by the first and second format identification circuits do not agree with each other, the recording execution part records video information to the second recording medium according to the broadcasting format identified by the first format identification circuit.