Patent attributes
A recording/reproducing apparatus having a receiving unit configured to receive a television broadcast, a recording/reproducing unit configured to record image data of the received broadcast program on a recording medium, and reproduce the image data from the recording medium, an output unit configured to output the image data of the received broadcast program, or the image data reproduced from the recording medium to a display device, a designation unit configured to designate a broadcast channel, a storage unit configured to store channel information indicating image data of a program to be reproduced if the designation unit designates a predetermined channel among the programs recorded on the recording medium, and a control unit configured to cause the recording/reproducing unit and the output unit to reproduce the image data from the recording medium and output the data to the display device, in accordance with the channel information stored on the storage unit.
