Patent ID: 6603718
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A dubbing apparatus for dubbing, at a predetermined speed higher than a standard dubbing speed, programs reproduced from a first storage medium serving as a dubbing source onto a second storage medium acting as a dubbing destination, said first storage medium including a program area and a management area, said program area having a plurality of programs recorded therein, said management area retaining management information for managing the programs stored in said program area, said dubbing apparatus comprising:comparing means for comparing a total amount of data constituting programs to be dubbed at the higher speed among said plurality of programs recorded on the dubbing source first storage medium, with a recordable capacity of the dubbing destination second storage medium; recording controlling means which, if said comparing means judges that the total amount of the data constituting the programs to be dubbed from said dubbing source first storage medium is greater than the recordable capacity of said dubbing destination second storage medium, then dubs at said higher speed at least the programs that are recordable each in its entirety onto said dubbing destination second storage medium within the recordable capacity thereof; and storing means for storing a disable flag and an enable flag, said disable flag inhibiting for a predetermined period of time a new session of dubbing at said higher speed of each of the programs that have been recorded each in its entirety at said higher speed onto said dubbing destination second storage medium, said enable flag allowing a program not accommodated in its entirety by said dubbing destination second storage medium to be dubbed consecutively at said higher speed.