Patent ID: 7542662

Claim:
A reproduction system, comprising: a reproduction apparatus; a video display; a speaker apparatus, wherein the reproduction apparatus is removably mounted in a video/audio input terminal of the video display without using a cord, and the video display displays video on the basis of an input video signal received from the reproduction apparatus and has a radio transmission section which transmits an input audio signal on a radio signal, and the speaker apparatus has a radio reception section and outputs audio on the basis of a received audio signal; a mounting detector to detect whether the reproduction apparatus is mounted in the video/audio input terminal of the video display and to output a signal indicating whether the reproduction apparatus is mounted in the video/audio input terminal; a switch which switches an audio output channel for the input audio signal between a first audio output channel that supplies the input audio signal to the radio transmission section and a second audio output channel that supplies the input audio signal to a speaker connected to the video display by wire; and a control section that receives from the mounting detector the signal indicating whether the reproduction apparatus is mounted in the video/audio input terminal and controls the switch to output the input audio signal to the first audio output channel in response to receiving a signal indicating that reproduction apparatus is mounted in the video/audio input terminal, and controls the switch to output the input audio signal to the second audio output channel in response to receiving a signal indicating that reproduction apparatus is not mounted in the video/audio input terminal.