Digital signal recording apparatus and method thereof

Abstract

A digital signal is recorded with resolutions maintained and the disturbance of reproduced video and/or audio associated with changes of a recording rate of the digital signal is suppressed to minimum. A digital signal recording apparatus for recording a digital signal having a variable recording rate representing a recording speed, said apparatus comprising a receiving section which receives the digital signal; a recording rate detecting section which detects the recording rate of the digital signal received at the receiving section; a storage section which stores a detected recording rate when said detected recording rate is greater than a previously stored recording rate, whereby said storage section stores a maximum recording rate; and a recording section which is operable to record the digital signal in a recording medium based on the maximum recording rate stored in the storage section.

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