Television channel selection apparatus, automatic channel presetting method and picture recording apparatus with channel programming

摘要

When a user inputs country information and language information into (for example) a VCR using a remote commander (12) or a key inputting circuit (13), a microprocessor (3) refers to a corresponding relationship between countries and/or languages and preferential orders of formats to be searched, stored in a third memory (9), and searches broadcasting station codes in accordance with the preferential order. For example, when the country is Germany and the language is German, broadcasting station codes are searched in the order of VPS -> 8/30/F1 -> PDC. <IMAGE>