Method and apparatus for adaptively storing program guide data

摘要

A method for storing program guide information for a plurality of programs in a receiver, said method comprising: determining (710) a level of program guide information in response to user interaction with an indicative graphic object (500) of said level of information in the program guide; determine (706-710), in response to said level of program guide information, a program guide programming length; and storing (712) the program guide data in accordance with said program guide information level and said program guide program length (600), in which said program guide program length ( 600) represents a time interval covered by said stored program guide data and the program guide data not included in accordance with said level of program guide information is discarded and not stored.