Pioneer Corporation

Hideki Nagata

Naoaki Horiuchi

Harumi Nakamura

Motooki Sugihara

Tetsuya Kawahara

Koji Matsuura

Tomoharu Kirihara

A storing-reproducing unitrecognizes a free space of a contents storage area by a storage-area-administrating device, sets a recording timing duration based on the recognized free space of the contents storage area, and selects a schedule information of a contents to be recorded from recording schedule list information. Hence, frequency of storing the contents in the HDDcan be reduced, thereby avoiding that the contents which has not yet watched is erased by self-erasing, so that the contents can be effectively recorded. Therefore, a user can secure flexibility in time in watching the contents.

Information processor, method thereof, program for executing the method, recording medium storing the program and information storage

A storing/reproducing device includes a storing controller that recognizes programming information read out from timer recording list information and the data size of a content corresponding to the programming information, and compares the data size with free spaces of an automatic recording areaand a manual recording areaboth forming a content recording area, the free spaces being recognized by a storing area manager. When the content is recorded based on the programming information set with input operation by a user, the storing controller records the content in the automatic recording areaif the storing controller judges that there is not enough free space in the manual recording area. Accordingly, other pieces of information will not be recorded in the manual recording area, thereby securing free space in the manual recording area. Therefore, manual recording with the input operation by the user can surely be performed.

Information-processor for controlling a storing area in accordance with an amount of requested information

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Hideki Nagata