Method and apparatus for allocating and recording time blocks on VCR tapes

A method for visual logging of programs recorded on videocassettes using a log sheet including a plurality of adjacent identical recording time areas, dimensions of which represent consecutive recording time intervals on a videocassette, and a plurality of different-sized markable program description labels each having an area corresponding to a preselected recording time interval, comprising the steps of:

• (a) entering information about a recorded program on one of the labels corresponding in size to a duration of the recorded program;
• (b) attaching the program description label on one of the recording time areas of the log sheet corresponding to a portion of a videocassette on which the program entered on the recording time area is recorded;
• (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) for a different program and a different program description label,
• whereby the log sheet provides a visual representation of portions of the videocassette on which identified programs are pre-recorded and portions of the videocassette available for recording other programs.

An apparatus for visual logging of progress recorded on videocassettes, the apparatus comprising in combination:

• (a) a log sheet including first and second parallel line, the distance between the first and second lines representing the total amount of tape of a videocassette;
• (b) a plurality of markable program description labels each having an area corresponding to a preselected recording time interval, information about recorded programs being marked on individual ones of the program description labels that correspond in size to the durations of the recorded programs, receptively;
• (c) means for attaching the program description labels on portion of the log sheet between the first and second lines corresponding to portions of the videocassette on which programs identified on the program description labels are recorded, respectively,
• whereby the log sheet provides a visual representation of the portions of the videocassette on which the identified programs are pre-recorded and portions avaialbe for recording other programs.