Abstract: To provide an information recording and/or playback apparatus for dubbing onto a second recording medium all or some of plural pieces of information from a first recording medium in which the plural pieces of information are recorded. The apparatus includes a dubbing function that includes a plurality of dubbing functions respectively having different dubbing information selection methods. In the event of executing dubbing, identifiers enabling selection of one of the plurality of dubbing functions and a display screen for displaying an explanatory text regarding the respective dubbing function is displayed. In addition, when information is selected before the display screen is displayed, the information selection method of the respective dubbing function and an explanatory text to be displayed is changed corresponding to an information selection state.

Abstract: In a recording/reproduction device, a type of recording medium which is currently selected is shown to the user on its small built-in monitor screen in a user-friendly manner and, for more user convenience, a background color of the screen is changed depending on the type of recording medium selected by the user. The user can know the currently selected type of recording medium from the screen's background color so it is possible to identify very quickly the type of recording medium even on a small monitor screen.

Abstract: Under circumstances where various recording formats are employed for HD (high-definition) images, the present invention provides a user-friendly video camera apparatus that can be used in a variety of user environments. An HD mode video signal picked up by an imaging unit is encoded to video data in the H.264 format and recorded onto an HDD. A decoder and an encoder transcode the video data reproduced from the HDD to video data in the MPEG2 format, whereas a resolution conversion module performs a resolution conversion process to obtain SD (standard-definition) mode video data. The converted data is dubbed to an optical disc (DVD) for recording purposes.

Abstract: When any undubbed data out of the recorded data in a hard disk device, is dubbed to a DVD, it sometimes occurs that dubbing-completed data and undubbed data are mixed together in the hard disk. For this reason, it is not easy to select only the undubbed data before start of dubbing processing. In a recording and reproducing device including a dubbing function, dubbing of recorded data is made from the first recording media (e.g., a hard disk) to the second recording media (e.g., a DVD), and at that time, only the recorded data of an undubbed item selected from the menu, etc., is displayed before start of dubbing. Also, if the above recorded data of the dubbing source cannot be contained in a single DVD, then which recorded data is to be dubbed to second, third, or what other number of media, according to the recording media used by the dubbing destination, is displayed before dubbing processing.

Abstract: To provide an information recording and/or playback apparatus for dubbing onto a second recording medium all or some of plural pieces of information from a first recording medium in which the plural pieces of information are recorded. The apparatus includes a dubbing function that includes a plurality of dubbing functions respectively having different dubbing information selection methods. In the event of executing dubbing, identifiers enabling selection of one of the plurality of dubbing functions and a display screen for displaying an explanatory text regarding the respective dubbing function is displayed. In addition, when information is selected before the display screen is displayed, the information selection method of the respective dubbing function and an explanatory text to be displayed is changed corresponding to an information selection state.

Abstract: A user can easily confirm how many scenes are to be recorded on a single DVD before dubbing starts when data of all scenes in a hard disk device is dubbed onto a DVD. A recording and reproducing apparatus including: a reproducing module which reproduces information from a first recording medium; a recording module which records information on a second recording medium; a selecting module which selects information to be dubbed onto the second recording medium out of information in the first recording medium according to format mode compatibility with the second recording medium when information is dubbed from the reproducing module onto the recording module; and a confirming module which displays information selected by the selecting module to allow confirmation of the information.

Abstract: In a recording/reproduction device, a type of recording medium which is currently selected is shown to the user on its small built-in monitor screen in a user-friendly manner and, for more user convenience, a background color of the screen is changed depending on the type of recording medium selected by the user. The user can know the currently selected type of recording medium from the screen's background color so it is possible to identify very quickly the type of recording medium even on a small monitor screen.