A digital recording apparatus includes a compression device that performs, every time a signal corresponding to one field is inputted, compression processing using a compression rate stored in by-channel compression rate storage area, corresponding to the inputted signal, in a storage device. A compression rate control device updates, every time the signal corresponding to one field has been compressed by the compression device, the compression rate stored in the by-channel compression rate storage area, corresponding to the inputted signal, in the storage device to such a value that an amount of coding after the compression approaches a predetermined target amount of coding on the basis of the amount of coding after the compression and the target amount of coding.