Patent ID: 8593511
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A playback device for playing back a non-transitory recording medium, the playback device comprising: a capability register indicating whether or not a capability to perform a stereoscopic display is present in a display device connected with the playback device; and a mode register storing an output mode of the playback device, wherein it is judged whether or not a plurality of conditions are satisfied, and a stereoscopic output mode is set in the mode register when it is judged that the plurality of conditions are satisfied, a first condition among the plurality of conditions is that the capability register indicates that the capability to perform the stereoscopic display is present in the display device connected with the playback device, a second condition among the plurality of conditions is that an initial value of an output mode recorded on the non-transitory recording medium indicates the stereoscopic output mode, and it is judged whether or not the first condition and the second condition are satisfied when a disc is read, and the stereoscopic output mode is set in the mode register when it is judged that the first condition and the second condition are satisfied.