Orion Electric Company, Ltd.

Toshio Ishimoto

Yoshinori Mizushima

Machiko Miyagawa

A video receiving and recording apparatus which can record a momentarily overlooked scene of a television broadcast and which can realize a reduction in power consumption and the like is provided. This video receiving and recording apparatus includes a short-time simple recording operating means for operating the video receiving and recording apparatus so as to record the momentarily overlooked scene in a recording and reproducing section when a viewer momentarily overlooks the specific scene while the viewer is viewing the television broadcast on a television monitor. The momentarily overlooked scene is recorded only when the short-time simple recording operating means is operated while the video receiving and recording apparatus operates in a short-time simple recording mode. A signal of the television broadcast received by a tuner is processed through an external memory only when the video receiving and recording apparatus operates in the short-time simple recording mode.

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Takefu, Japan

Toshio Ishimoto