A system and method for providing scheduled live off disk recording for DVR devices

摘要

The present invention is a system and method for providing scheduled live off disk recording for DVR devices. Characteristics describing selected content scheduled to be broadcast on a first channel is programmed into the DVR device (204) for recording onto the temporary buffer (208). Once the selected content is received from a communications network (202), the DVR device (204) navigates to the scheduled LOD channel planning to receive the selected content. Once tuned to the scheduled LOD channel, the DVR device (204) stores the selected content in a temporary buffer (208). In the event the temporary buffer (208) becomes full, the DVR device (204) receives a full indication, and begins to overwrite the content of the temporary buffer (208) starting from the beginning, such that there is always a full buffer of data. In the event of a channel change, the temporary buffer is purged.