TELEVISION RECEIVER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for reducing the state where recording is disabled, even when storage regions for time-shift recording are reduced, in a television having a time-shift function.SOLUTION: When the remaining capacity of a time-shift storage section 52 becomes less than or equal to 10% during time-shift recording, in a television 10, a time-shift external device control section 60 controls to power on an external recorder 70 by means of a CEC function. Further, when the remaining capacity of the time-shift storage section 52 is exhausted, the time-shift external device control section 60 stops time-shift recording and controls to start continuous recording at a side of the external recorder 70 by means of the CEC function.