Patent ID: 7421192

Claim:
A recording/reproducing apparatus capable of transmitting information recorded on a record medium to an external device, comprising: a recording/reproducing circuit which records information on and reproduces information from the record medium; a first transmitting circuit which transmits the information to a display; a second transmitting circuit which transmits the information to the external device via an external network to which other external devices are connected; and a control circuit which controls workings of said recording/reproducing circuit and said first and second transmitting circuits; wherein said recording/reproducing circuit records multiple instances of path information, each instance of path information including order information defining an order of information to be transmitted to said external device by said second transmitting circuit and destination information, corresponding to the order information, which is used when the information to be transmitted is transmitted to the external device among the other external devices, on said record medium, and reproduces the information from said record medium according to the order information included in an instance of the path information, and wherein said second transmitting circuit transmits the information reproduced by the recording/reproducing circuit, according to the order information included in an instance of the path information, to said external device using the corresponding destination information included in the same instance of path information.