Patent ID: 7239803

Claim:
A DVD-video playback apparatus operable to stores a plurality of DVD discs and selectively play back one of the DVD discs, the DVD-video playback apparatus comprising: a disc-change unit operable to change a playback-target DVD disc among the plurality of DVD discs; a monitored-title setting unit operable to select one or more titles from among titles recorded on the playback-target DVD disc in accordance with the size of each title and sets the selected one or more titles as one or more monitored titles; a playback unit operable to play back titles recorded on the playback-target DVD disc in accordance with navigation data recorded on the playback-target DVD disc; and a disc-change controller operable to command the playback unit to stop playing back the playback-target DVD disc and the disc-change unit to automatically change the playback-target DVD disc when playback of the one or more monitored titles is completed.