Recording method and apparatus

摘要

The purpose of the present invention is to make it possible to perform a process in a good condition when an automatic video-record reservation such as a series reservation and another video-record reservation are overlapped. According to the present invention, it is performed a first record reservation process for detecting a program coinciding with a preset condition from program data which guide the programs broadcasted by a predetermined broadcast service and for record reserving the detected broadcast program; a second record reservation process for record reserving a broadcast program by a different process from the program detection of the program data; and reservation cancel process for judging whether or not there is an overlapping with the time zone made a reservation by the first record reservation process when the second record reservation process is performed, for notifying it when there is an overlapping reservation, for setting only one of the selected record reservation, and for canceling the other record reservation.