Newly developed IRD built-in D-VHS VCR system for DVB broadcasts

A VCR with built-in integrated receiver decoder (IRD) has been developed for recording and playing back DISH Network digital broadcast. The system is based on the D-VHS format and can record MPEG as a bit-stream. D-VHS is an evolutional expansion of the VHS format and makes possible various types of recording applications that meet the demands of the digital age while preserving the VHS infrastructure. This paper describes IRD built-in recorder and the recording and playback systems based on D-VHS MPEG format.