Recording reservation system and method

摘要

A recording reservations system reliably records only the program that the user wants to record in the event of a dislocation of the broadcast schedule even when the recording reservation is programmed using either a manual timer recording reservation method of G-code reservation method. The recording reservation system has a storage unit (610) for storing a program list containing program information for plural programs, the program information including the scheduled broadcast time for each program and an event ID identifying each program. A reservation input unit (618) enables a user to input reservation information identifying a scheduled broadcast time by time information to enable time-shift recording of a scheduled broadcast program as a reservation program. A reservation manager (616) extracts program information for the reservation program based on the program list and reservation information. A recording manager (624) monitors the event ID of each broadcast program, and records the required broadcast program as the reservation program based on the monitored results. <IMAGE>