Patent ID: 8787734

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to record and store program content data transmitted in a broadcast signal; a management unit configured to manage an available recording capacity of the storage unit; a selection unit configured to, in a case where the available recording capacity is less than a predetermined amount, (1) select a multi-view program content data broadcasted by a plurality of channels including content data associated with each other from among the program content data in the storage unit if there is the multi-view program content data in the storage unit, and (2) select a non multi-view program content data if there is no multi-view program content data in the storage unit, wherein the multi-view program content data comprises content data of at least a main channel and a sub channel; a display control unit configured to, (1) if the multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit, display information of the main channel and the sub channel of the selected multi-view program content data and inquire a user whether to permit the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content, and (2) if the non multi-view program content data is selected by the selection unit, display information of the non multi-view program content data and inquire a user whether to permit the deletion of the selected non multi-view program content data; and a deletion unit configured to, (1) if the user permits the deletion of the content data of the sub channel while keeping the content data of the main channel of the selected multi-view content, delete content data of the sub channel included in the selected multi-view program content data from the storage unit, and (2) if the user permits the deletion of non multi-view program content data, delete the selected non multi-view program content data from the storage unit.