VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, CONTROL METHOD FOR VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

A video recording device (1), wherein: a recording means (11) records a broadcast program in a storage area (14); and, if a rate conversion determination means (15) has determined that a prescribed time period has passed in the broadcast program since the current time, a rate conversion means (16) re-encodes the program such that the quality of the program reduces so as to become the quality set in a bit rate table.