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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Karl Francis Horlander, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Michael Francis Kvintus, Jr., Terre Haute, IN (US);
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer, Hamilton, IN (US);
Robert Howard Miller, Leawood, KS (US);
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;
Abstract
A method for operating a video recording apparatus in one of a digital recording mode and an analog recording mode. The method involves recording a digital video bit stream in the digital recording mode and switching to the analog recording mode for recording the corresponding analog video signal in response to a fault condition. For example, the fault conditions may occur in response to improper copyright information, an analog recording media being loaded into the video recording apparatus or the digital video bit stream being absent while the video recording apparatus operates in the digital recording mode. The fault condition may be indicated to a user and switching to a different mode, such as the analog recording mode, may occur in response to receiving a user initiated command responsive to the indicated fault condition.