SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING A PLURALITY OF VIDEO STREAMS ON RE-WRITABLE RANDOM-ACCESS MEDIA AND TIME- AND CHANNEL-BASED RETRIEVAL THEREOF

摘要

A digital video recorder (DVR) and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the DVR includes: (1) a mass data storage unit that concurrently and continuously receives and digitally stores a plurality of channels and (2) a channel viewer, coupled to the mass data storage unit, that retrieves a portion of one of the plurality of channels from the mass data storage unit based on a received command and presents the portion on a video display device.