Abstract: An electronic program guide display device includes: a scrolling processing section having a low-speed scrolling mode and a high-speed scrolling mode; and a display control section which causes a display section to display a date group, made up of a plurality of dates included in an electronic program guide, during the high-speed scrolling mode.

Abstract: A recording apparatus performs bit rate conversion on an input stream and records the input stream with additional data such as captions and a weather forecast left therein into a recording medium in consideration of the remaining capacity thereof. A recording apparatus (10) performs bit rate conversion on an input stream including video data, voice data and additional data and records the converted input stream. The recording apparatus (10) comprises a control portion (15) which calculates a target total bit rate which is a target of the input stream on the basis of the recording time of the input stream and the remaining capacity of the recording medium and sets a target bit rate of the video data with respect to the calculated target total bit rate and a transcoder (13) which measures an actual total bit rate of the input stream after starting the bit rate conversion on the basis of the target bit rate of the video data.

Abstract: A recording/playback device enables the user to grasp at a glance the overview of titles of recorded television programs and immediately select and playback a desired scene without being required to set chapters in advance. When a display device displays a recorded television program, the recording/playback device splits the recorded television program of one title into equal time segments, creates time-sequentially thumbnails positioned approximately at the split points, and arranges them in a list to display them on the screen. I-picture frame data temporally closest to the split points is used to create thumbnails in order to speed up the playback. Time information is displayed together with each thumbnail. When the user selects any thumbnail, the television program is played back starting from that segment. In such a way of displaying, the user can see at a glance what scenes are recorded in the television program without being required to give chapters.