Abstract: In a content distribution system, a recording-management system makes a storing section of a first terminal device store a predetermined content stored in a content-storing section of a distribution device obligatorily. Under this condition, when a second terminal device requests the recording management system to distribute the predetermined content, the recording management system transmits the address identifying the first terminal device that stores the predetermined content to the second terminal device. The content stored in the first terminal device is transmitted and received between the second terminal device and the first terminal device having the received address through a user network to obtain the predetermined content. Thus, the content requested by a given terminal device can be distributed to the terminal device that has made the request without increasing the scale of the distribution device.

Abstract: A reproduced image transmission apparatus which can display reversely reproduced images normally even when the transfer order of asynchronous transfer and isochronous transfer is not ensured on IEEE1394, in cases where an apparatus for generating the reversely reproduced images and an apparatus for decoding the reversely reproducing images are connected with each other via an IEEE1394 network. An MPEG transport stream processing means 15 embeds control signal for controlling decoding in an MPEG picture, and transmits the signal together with the MPEG picture through the IEEE1394 network in the isochronous transfer mode, whereby the synchronization between the MPEG picture and its control signal is surely obtained, thereby to generate reversely reproduced images according to MPEG using P and B pictures.

Abstract: A reproducing device has

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Abstract: A special reproduction data generating device, has