1. Method of recording and reading audio and/or video information broadcast as individual programs via one or several channels by air broadcasting, by satellite or by cable TV, comprising the following steps: selecting at least one channel to simultaneously provide one or more received signals; digitally encoding the received signals; compressing and/or multiplexing the encoded digital signals; recording the compressed and/or multiplexed digital signals on a large-capacity recording medium; creating an index on the recording medium for each individual program recorded; creating at least one menu of recorded programs; selecting one or several programs from a menu of recorded programs displayed on a screen; reading said signals indicative of said selected program(s); decompressing and/or demultiplexing the signals read; decoding the signals decompressed and/or demultiplexed; reproducing the corresponding audio and/or video information; and wherein said recording on and reading from said large capacity recording medium are independent of each other, in order to enable reading of a recorded program while simultaneously recording a plurality of other programs, said other programs not always being recorded in continuous form on said large capacity recording medium, without erasing said recorded program being read.