Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Michael Kandler

Adolf Proidl

Hannes Riedl

Herbert Gerharter

Andras Kalmar

Franz Schuegerl

A recording arrangement receives reception information including program, picture and/or sound information in a receiving channel of a television program. A detector detects the received program information which characterizes the start and end times of the television programs. A recorder is adapted to record the picture and/or sound information on a record carrier from a recording start time till a recording end time. A recording controller which, when a user of the recording arrangement has defined the recording start time and the receiving channel for a recording, is adapted to propose the end determined by the detector as the recording end time for the recording of the television program that can be received in the receiving channel.

Recording arrangement having recording control means

A system ( ) comprising a data source ( ) for supplying an information packet stream containing digital data coded in accordance with a first coding method and/or a second coding method, a processing device ( ) for processing an information packet stream, and a data sink ( ) for receiving an information packet stream comprises insertion means ( ), which the insertion means ( ) comprise detection means ( ) adapted to detect digital data contained in a sub-stream of the information packet stream and coded in accordance with a second coding method and to supply control information upon detection of such data, and a packet stream generator ( ) which, when control information appears, is adapted to insert further digital data coded in accordance with the first coding method and containing additional information about the sub-stream into further information packets of the information packet stream.

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Vienna, Austria

Michael Kandler