Patent ID: 7327645

Claim:
A dubbing device comprising: reproducing means for reproducing data from a portable first recording medium on which one or plural programs are recorded; recording/reproducing means for recording to and reproducing from a second recording medium having a larger recording capacity than the first recording medium one or more of the programs reproduced from said portable first recording medium; database means for managing identification information corresponding to respective portable recording media and recording history information representing those programs on a respective portable recording medium that have been recorded to the second recording medium and those programs on said respective portable recording medium that have not been recorded to the second recording medium; and control means for causing a search of the database means on the basis of identification information corresponding to said first recording medium to determine if a program has previously been recorded from the first recording medium to the second recording medium and, after said search has been made, if it is determined that said program has not previously been recorded to the second recording medium, to reproduce said program from the first recording medium and to record the reproduced program to the second recording medium.