Video recording apparatus and recording method
OwnerToshihisa Ohiro, Koichi Kameyamainventors
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Abstract
A system management control unit (108) for controlling a switching unit (107) is provided, and a data format to be employed when recording data on a recording medium is switched between a program stream and a transport stream according to the state of a system, whereby the capacity of the recording medium can be efficiently utilized, and the characteristics of multiple channels in digital broadcasting can be maintained.
Claims37
A video recording apparatus for recording digital broadcasting and analog broadcasting mixedly on a single or plural recording media, comprising:
- a data format selection means for selecting either a data format for a transport stream (TS) or a data format for a program stream (PS) in an MPEG system, on the basis of the state of a system;
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- a system management control means for managing and controlling the state of the system;
- wherein recording is-performed in the selected data format.
A video recording method for recording digital broadcasting and analog broadcasting mixedly on a single or plural recording media, wherein
- a data format with which data are recorded on the recording medium is selected on the basis of the state of a system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.