AUTO-DETECTION OF THE REAL END-OF-PROGRAM FOR THE CHANNEL

摘要

Overwriting, by a video recording device (108) inadvertently left to record overnight, of its time shift buffer with repetitive, post -end-of-program content is avoided (S520) by automatically detecting the real end of program (104). Detection is preferably performed by a pixel-to-pixel comparison of content captured from the incoming video signal for the channel with stored content representative of an end-of-program frame (S504). In addition, automatic restarting (S524) of the recording is possible by detecting the real start of programming for the next day (120).