Abstract: An apparatus for searching an image of an image recording and reproducing device in which input data streams received from various signal sources are processed and accordingly generated image and audio signals are outputted to an image displayer and a speaker, includes: a data stream selector for receiving the input data streams, selecting and outputting an input data stream of a channel selected by a user; a decoding unit for decoding the data stream outputted from the data stream selector; a formatter for receiving the data stream from the data stream selector, converting it to a record signal, outputting the record signal to a recording medium, detecting the signal recorded in the recording medium, generating a reproduction signal, and outputting the reproduction signal to the data stream selector; a controller for judging whether there is a data stream having an I picture among the input data stream outputted from the data stream selector, a memory associated with the selected input data stream recorded i