Patent ID: 8693841

Claim:
A video reproducing apparatus, comprising: an access unit configured to access a storage medium holding a primary video scene and an extended video scene to be reproduced instead of the primary video scene, wherein the primary video scene is associated with the extended video scene; an external device search unit configured to search for an external device which can communicate with the video reproducing apparatus and to autonomously collect, without a user instruction, a condition of the external device required for the external device to reproduce the extended video scene found by searching, from the external device; a scene selecting unit configured to (i) select the primary video scene when the condition of the external device required for the external device to reproduce the extended video scene found by the searching does not meet a predetermined condition and to (ii) select the extended video scene associated with the primary video scene when the condition of the external device required for the external device to reproduce the extended video scene meets the predetermined condition; and a video reproducing unit configured to read the primary video scene or the extended video scene selected by the scene selecting unit from the storage medium via the access unit and to reproduce the primary video scene or the extended video scene.