Hitachi, Ltd.

Nobumitsu Mabe

Satoshi Takahashi

Tomochika Yamashita

Atsuhiro Ono

Toshiya Takko

Tomofumi Moriya

Hiroki Fukumoto

Chikara Maezono

In digital broadcast recording for automatically recording broadcasts on a channel selected from a plurality of digital broadcast programs on a recording medium, in accordance with a booking that is performed by specifying a time zone and giving a command to record a stream of broadcast contents on the user-selected channel during the time zone, the stream of broadcast contents on the channel is recorded, separated into a plurality of units for the programs broadcasted during the time zone. Thus, the recorded stream can be handled program by program in a later editing or playback operation, despite that it was recorded by booked recording for which only the time zone was specified, and thus the user-friendliness is improved.

Method of recording multiple programs over a specified time period in separate program data files

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Nobumitsu Mabe