Patent ID: 7450815
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording and reproducing apparatus to record and reproduce a signal to and from a recording medium, comprising: a receiving device to receive a digital broadcasting signal and to covert the digital broadcasting signal into a record-formed signal; a recording and reproducing device to record and reproduce the record-formed signal supplied from the receiving device, to and from the recording medium; and a decoding and output circuit to decode the digital broadcasting signal which is received by the receiving device or the record-formed signal which is reproduced by the recording and reproducing device, and to output the decoded signal for use by a display unit, wherein the decoding and output circuit is commandable to output, to the display unit, selection information selectable for an indication of one of information relative to the receiving device and information relative to the recording and reproducing device, wherein when the indication of the information relative to the receiving device is selected from the selection information outputted for use by the display unit, the information relative to the receiving device, which is information indicating an operation state of the receiving device, obtained from the receiving device, is output for use by the display unit, and when the indication of the information relative to the recording and reproducing device is selected from the selection information, the information relative to the recording and reproducing device, which is information indicating an operation state of the recording and reproducing device, obtained from the recording and reproducing device is output for use by the display unit, such that the operation states are displayed with images having substantially common formatting to one another on the display unit.