Patent attributes
The present invention is directed to an apparatus in which recording reservation is registered by using a VPS/PDC signal and at the same time, a television broadcast program can be viewed even within the time window. Consequently, in a television broadcast signal receiving apparatus in which a television broadcast signal superimposed with broadcast start time as teletext data (VPS/PDC signal) is made possible to be recorded by reservation, a reservation recording which uses the VPS/PDC signal is registered and at the same time, channel scan off means 2a for turning off the channel scan when the state is in the time window is provided.