DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER ERROR RECOVERY METHOD

摘要

A method for operating a video recording apparatus in one of a digital recording mode and an analog recording mode. The method involves recording a dig ital video bit stream in the digital recording mode and switching to the analog recor ding mode for recording the corresponding analog video signal in response to a fault condi tion. For example, the fault conditions may occur in response to improper copyright inform ation, an analog recording media being loaded into the video recording apparatus or the di gital video bit stream being absent while the video recording apparatus operates in the digi tal recording mode. The fault condition may be indicated to a user and switching to a different mode, such as the analog recording mode, may occur in response to rece iving a user initiated command responsive to the indicated fault condition.