Sony Europe Limited

Sony Corporation

Sony United Kingdom Limited

Kevin Dodd

In a television recording apparatus having a storage unit capable of storing recordings of television signals, during reproduction of a recording, an analysis of the reproduced television signal is performed to detect a credits sequence of a program. Responsive to input of a command to cease reproduction before the end of a recording, in the event that the command is input after the detected credits sequence, then the recording is deleted or there is displayed a graphical interface providing for user input to indicate a desire for deletion of the recording or not.

Management of television recordings

A recording apparatus that has a control unit, a storage unit and a recording unit. The recording unit is configured to record television signals representing programs onto storage device. If a partially recorded program is stored on storage unit, the apparatus is configured to subsequently record and store a full recording of that program. The control unit is configured to insert markers into the full version of the program to indicate the position or positions of the delayed start and/or premature end of the partial recording. The partial recording can thus be deleted from storage unit, but the user of the recording apparatus can still identify the delayed start point and/or premature end point of the partial recording from the full recording.

Recording apparatus

The invention relates to providing audiovisual content on a network, and methods of transferring the audiovisual content between devices attached to the network. The methods involve accepting user input, at a first output device that is outputting audiovisual content, to select a second output device from the output devices associated with the network and subsequently outputting the audiovisual content on the second output device that is selected.

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Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Kevin Dodd