Patent ID: 7948379

Claim:
An optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus to record and reproduce data using an optical disk, the apparatus comprising: a management information storage unit configured to store disk management information relating individual identification information about said optical disk and index information indicating details of a recorded content on said optical disk, wherein said individual identification information is recorded in an RFID tag integrally provided for said optical disk, said index information including a flag indicating whether or not each recorded content on said optical disk is also stored in a fixed recording medium; an identification information reader configured to noncontactly read said individual identification information from said RFID tag of said optical disk; a display process unit configured to extract said index information from said disk management information, wherein said index information corresponds to said individual identification information read by said identification information reader, and outputting an image signal to display said extracted index information on a screen, said display process unit also displaying said flag of said index information; a broadcast information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating details of a content to be recorded on the optical disk, wherein said index information includes information acquired by said broadcast information acquisition unit; a management information registration unit configured to register individual identification information and the index information relating thereto into said disk management information when content is recorded on the disk; and the fixed recording medium, located inside the apparatus, configured to record content and corresponding index information thereon, wherein said management information registration unit records individual identification information read from the optical disk and the index information of content recorded on said fixed recording medium in a corresponding relationship when recorded content on the fixed recording medium is read from said fixed recording medium and is recorded into the optical disk.