Patent ID: 8358910
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for reproducing a TV signal comprising: a reproducer to reproduce the TV signal from a storage medium having a bitstream recording area and a management recording area, stored in the bitstream recording area being digital data of a TV signal carrying at least one TV program signal and one CM portion signal carrying commercial message, and stored in the management recording area being management data, having data on locations of the CM portion signal, indicating whether the digital data is the TV program or the commercial message; a instructor to instruct the reproducer to reproduce the TV signal at a given reproduction speed; and a controller to control the reproducer so that only the TV program is reproduced based on the data on locations of the CM portion signal when the reproduction speed is equal or lower than a reference speed, whereas both of the TV program and the commercial message are reproduced when the reproduction speed is higher than the reference speed.