Patent ID: 7325094
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: G11B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A recording/reproducing apparatus characterized by comprising: recording/reproducing means capable of recording inputted content data to a recording medium and reproducing content data from the recording medium; wherein the recording/reproducing means records content data of recommendations provided by a service to the recording medium; content-status managing means for managing a content age as a value age-addition-processed on the content data recorded on the recording medium, depending upon a lapse time from a recording execution data-and-time and a genre of the content data; wherein a genre-based coefficient value is set/changed when the content age is age-addition-processed; and automatic-deletion control means for making reference to the content age under management of the content-status managing means as to the content data recorded on the recording medium, and automatically deleting the content data with priority of higher content age from the recording medium.