Claims
- 1. A video tape recorder for recording at least one program on a video tape, comprising:
- recording/reproducing means for recording and reproducing signals on the video tape;
- input means for receiving said at least one program;
- display means for providing a display to a user;
- user command input means for receiving recording commands from a user; and
- control means for controlling the recording of said at least one program on said video tape by said recording/reproducing means;
- said control means being operative to control said recording/reproducing means to record management data in a management database recording field formed at a predetermined position on said video tape, said management data including recording control data for subsequent display to a user carrying out a recording command input for indicating a recording condition of said video tape;
- said control means being operative to control said recording/reproducing means to record data indicating an unused recording capacity of said video tape and to control said recording/reproducing means to record on said video tape data indicating a total number of programs recorded on said video tape and data identifying at least an identity and a total number of programs reserved to be recorded thereon as at least a portion of said data indicating an unused recording capacity of said video tape;
- said control means being operative to control said recording/reproducing means to reproduce said recording control data from said management database recording field of said video tape and to control said display means to display a recording condition of said video tape based on the reproduced recording control data;
- said user command input means being operative to input recording commands from a user responding to the display of said recording condition;
- said control means being further operative to control the recording of said at least one program based on said recording commands.
- 2. The video tape recorder of claim 1, wherein said control means is operative to control said recording/reproducing means to record data indicating whether said at least one program has been recorded.
- 3. The video tape recorder of claim 1, wherein said control means is operative to control said recording/reproducing means to record data indicating whether said at least one program has been recorded completely.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional of application of Ser. No. 08/383,614 filed Feb. 2, 1995 now abandoned and which is a division of application Ser. No. 07/643,207, filed Jan. 18, 1991 now abandoned.
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