Apparatus and method for automatically recording television programs in television system having a tuner video recorder outside

摘要

(57) is a system that can be automatically recorded a television program broadcast on cable television channels on [summary] different. Cable box, video recorder, and including a cable programmer this system. Set channel, date, and command and length or time ("CDTL information"), or customer enters the video recorder compression code that represents a set of commands such. ("DTL information") is stored in the video recorder memory subset consisting of date, from the length and time from the set of each command. At the same time or with little delay, the channel, date, and ("CDT information") is transmitted to the cable programmer subset consisting instruction time. Video recorders and cable programmer has a control unit independent, I controls a certain part of the recording process according to the subsets of commands stored in the memory. To control the start and stop of the recording, the control unit of the video recorder, tune the channel of the cable box control unit of the cable programmer. Through a remote control or other techniques IR link from the cable programmer and sent to the cable programmer from the video recorder, the information is transferred to the cable box.