Patent ID: 6985671

Claim:
A material recording and sending system comprising: material recording and reproducing means including recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing a material containing video and/or sound data into and from a nonlinear accessible recording medium, and a plurality of input/output processing means for processing said material inputted from outside and outputting said material to said recording and reproducing means in an assigned time slot interval, and receiving said material reproduced by said recording and reproducing means in an assigned time slot interval and outputting said material to outside; selection means having a plurality of input channels and a plurality of output channels, said selection means conducting input channel and output channel selection so as to output said material inputted to at least one of said plurality of input channels, from at least one of said plurality of output channels and input said material to input/output processing means of said material recording and reproducing means, said selection means conducting input channel and output channel selection so as to input said material outputted from input/output processing means of said material recording and reproducing means, to at least one of said plurality of input channels and output said material from at least one of said plurality of output channels; and operation means for ordering operation of recording said material inputted via said selection means, into said material recording and reproducing means and/or operation of reproducing said material to be outputted via said selection means, from said material recording and reproducing means, wherein said operation means comprises display means for hierarchically displaying resources including said recording medium, said recording and reproducing means and said input/output processing means of said material recording and reproducing means, and input channels and output channels of said selection means, according to connection situations.