A system for unattended recording of television programs

摘要

A system (10) for unattended recording of television programs on a video recorder (14) arranged to receive television signals from a decoder (14). The system (10) includes means (34) for receiving a user input indicative of a selected television program on a television channel to be recorded at an activation time and an emulator (14) responsive to the user input for emulating the channel of the selected television program to produce a channel tuning command recognisable by the decoder (16) or the video recorder (14). Also provided is a memory for storing the channel tuning commands and the desired activation time, a means (54) for automatically transmitting the channel tuning command to the decoder or the video recorder at the activation time, and means for automatically supplying recording commands to the video recorder at said activation time.