Television program recording with user preference determination

In a system that receives television signals carrying television programs, a computer storage medium comprising apparatus for causing storage of selected ones of said television programs for subsequent viewing by a user of said apparatus, comprising:

• a preference determination module, responsive to attribute information associated with television programs viewed by said user, for categorizing said attribute information in accordance with categorization parameters to generate recordation preference information, indicative of television program viewing preferences of said user;
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• a recordation module, responsive to said recordation preference information, for causing recordation on a storage medium of subsequently transmitted television programs, having attribute information corresponding to said recordation preference information.