Receiver for receiving and decoding digital broadcasts, recording apparatus for recording the signals received through the receiver and data recording method

摘要

A digital broadcast receiver (3) for receiving a digital broadcast containing video data and audio data transmitted in the form of a transport stream is connected through an interface (1) to a digital recording/reporducing apparatus (2) for recording the transport stream from the digital broadcast receiver (3). The receiver (3) judges information corresponding to the transmission rate of the transport stream of the digital broadcast received, and transmits a setting command of the recording rate through the interface (1) to the recording/reproducing apparatus (2) on the basis of the information corresponding to the transmission rate. Just before the stream is transmitted from the receiver (3), the setting command of the recording rate is transmitted to the recording/reproducing apparatus (2) when the channel is switched, when the program is switched or every predetermined period, so that the optimum recording rate is surely set when the recording is started in the recording/reproducing apparatus (2). The optimum recording mode corresponding to the transmission rate of a stream can be surely set before the recording is started when a stream from a satellite broadcast receiver is recorded in the recording/reproducing apparatus (2).