Patent ID: 8131127

Claim:
A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a receiving unit which receives a broadcast signal; a first memory which stores the broadcast data; a first recording unit which records the broadcast data contained in the received broadcast signal, in the first memory; a second recording unit which records the data read out from the first memory, in a second memory; a retrieving control unit which reads out the data from the second memory; a first reproducing unit which reproduces the data recorded in the second memory; a data amount detecting unit which detects an amount of data recorded in the second memory and not reproduced by the first reproducing unit; and a second reproducing unit which stops reproducing of the data by the first reproducing unit and recording of the data by the second recording unit if the detected amount of the non-reproduced data in the second memory is below a predetermined threshold value, and simultaneously starts reproducing the data recorded in the first memory.