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Program related data contained in the broadcast signal of an advertisement for a future television show are evaluated and compared with the current TV set tuning when a LEARN button on a remote control is pressed. A VCR tunes to the present TV channel and stores the program related data for the futu

Program related data contained in the broadcast signal of an advertisement for a future television show are evaluated and compared with the current TV set tuning when a LEARN button on a remote control is pressed. A VCR tunes to the present TV channel and stores the program related data for the future television show. The apparatus also ensures that a program to be recorded will start and end at the right time and that broadcast advertisements will be skipped during recording, are disclosed.

대표청구항 ▼

A Method for programming a recording device (17), comprising the steps of: receiving data related to information regarding status (TYPE), time (START TIME, DURATION), date (DATE), identity (PROGRAM ID), and channel or frequency (CHANNEL) of a broadcast of a desired program, said data being transmitt

A Method for programming a recording device (17), comprising the steps of: receiving data related to information regarding status (TYPE), time (START TIME, DURATION), date (DATE), identity (PROGRAM ID), and channel or frequency (CHANNEL) of a broadcast of a desired program, said data being transmitted (14) together with a present program, said data (TYPE, START TIME, DURATION, DATE, PROGRAM ID, CHANNEL) describing said present program; receiving data accompanying an advertisement of a new program to be broadcast on a current channel or frequency, said broadcast to occur before an expiration of a predetermined time period, said data having said status (TYPE) set to a wait status (WAIT) and the other of said data (START TIME, DURATION, DATE, PROGRAM ID, CHANNEL) set to describe said new program; receiving data accompanying an advertisement for a future program to be broadcast on one of a plurality of broadcast channels or frequencies, said broadcast to occur after said expiration of said predetermined time period said data having said status (TYPE) set to an information status (INFORMATION) and the other of said data (START TIME, DURATION, DATE, PROGRAM ID, CHANNEL) set to describe said advertised future program; extracting said data (TYPE, START TIME, DURATION, DATE, PROGRAM ID, CHANNEL) from said present program in response to an indication entered by a user that said user wants to record said desired new or future program; storing said extracted data; and programming said recording device in accordance with said stored extracted data to tune to said channel or frequency of said desired program at a second predetermined time before a start time of the broadcast of said desired program, to wait until said status changes from said wait status (WAIT) to a broadcast status (BROADCAST), and thereafter to start recording, if said identity (PROGRAM ID) match respective stored identity data.