Patent 7496276 was granted and assigned to Sony on February, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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.