| 摘要 |
<p>In a record /playback control apparatus used in digital recording for digital broadcasting, it is possible to perform presetting for simultaneous recording, to set the number of presettings for simultaneous recording making the most of processing performance for playback/recording, and to perform an appropriate presetting at the presetting of the recording. A program information providing apparatus comprises a program information delivering unit (12) for delivering an EPG, and a program information creating unit (15) for describing the bit rate of a program in the EPG, and delivers to the record/playback control apparatus an EPG in which the bit rate of a program is described. The record/playback control apparatus (706) extracts information on bit rate of each program described in the delivered EPG, and, at the presetting of a recording, compares the total bit rate of programs preset for playback and recording in the same time period with the bit rate available from a storage device (735), thereby determining whether recording is possible or not.</p> |
