Patent ID: 7362951

Claim:
A disk playback apparatus for playing back video images and subtitles recorded on a disk recording medium, comprising: a playback unit for performing (i) a normal playback operation for continuously playing back the video images and the subtitles at a normal playback speed of x, and (ii) a fast playback operation for continuously playing back the video images and the subtitles at a playback speed of nx (where n >1) at which speed subtitles still are able to be displayed with the video images; a movement controller for moving a playback position by skipping a portion of the recorded video images; an operation unit for providing a playback instruction by specifying a desired playback speed; and an operation/movement alternating controller for performing control so that the fast playback operation at speed nx performed by the playback unit and the movement operation performed by the movement controller are alternately repeated, when the desired playback speed is greater than nx and subtitles are not able to be displayed by continuously playing back the video images and the subtitles at the desired playback speed.