Patent ID: 8306401
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An optical disc device with an integrated hard disk drive, comprising: a hard disk drive recording and reproducing portion for recording and reproducing contents; an optical disc recording and reproducing portion for recording and reproducing contents; and a record restriction process portion that decides whether or not a optical disc is a disc supporting illegal copy prevention and discriminates copy protection information of a television broadcasting signal, wherein only when a “copy once” signal is detected from the copy protection information while contents of television broadcasting are recorded on an optical disc that does not support illegal copy prevention, recording on the optical disc is stopped, and recording by the hard disk drive is performed, wherein only when a “copy free” signal is detected from the copy protection information while the contents are recorded by the hard disk drive, recording by the hard disk drive is stopped, and recording on the optical disc is performed.