APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AS WELL AS RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a picture recording operation from being interrupted in a halfway. SOLUTION: Picture recording time in which the picture recording operation of a program is performed is set. The bit rate of an MPEG system stream which is outputted from an encoder board 213 is set. In a microprocessor 201, a required capacity as a recording capacity required for a picture recording operation is computed on the basis of the recording time and the bit rate. Then, a required region as a recording region at the required capacity or higher is ensured on a hard disk 212. A program which is received by a TV tuner 213A is recorded on the required region.