Multi purpose broadcast TV device
A multi-purpose device can be engineered and manufactured for broadcast television to record programs through a digital video recording system. Analog can of course be digitized. This broadcast TV DVR would allow customers with broadcast television to record without a taping system—a vast improvement of both quality, efficiency, and ease of usage. Perhaps this multi-purpose device could be combined with a DVD player so that one could record digitally onto memory chips in the system along with playing commercial discs. This might also incorporate my previous patent for a DVD player that would record onto a blank disc. A customer might want to record analog to digital and then transfer to a disc for sharing or for a personal collection. This would break through certain compatibility issues and bring down costs for home entertainment. Intellectual property rights laws would still apply, of course. A digital video recorder can be engineered and manufactured for broadcast (analog) television in which programs could be recorded and played on the television—perhaps even in connection to a traditional compact disc player. 1) Builds on patents for DVRs; 2) TiVo; 3) Compact disc players; 4) And my previous patent for a DVD player that records (29/463,839).