Data decoding recording apparatus

Abstract

A data decoding recording apparatus is disclosed which facilitates, when contents of a received digital broadcast are recorded in accordance with a copy control code, editing and preservation of the recorded contents. A digital broadcasting radio wave is subject to demodulation, Viterbi decoding and error correction processing with the Reed-Solomon code by a tuner section and is outputted as a transport stream. A general control section receives the transport stream, extracts a copy control code from the received transport stream and analyzes the copy control code. When the copy control code is “00”, the general control section controls a hard disk drive to record the contents through a digital interface section. When the copy control code is “10”, the general control section either controls one of an optical disk drive and a video tape recorder to record or controls both of the optical disk drive and the video tape recorder or all of the hard disk drive, the optical disk drive and the video tape recorder to record the contents.

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