Patent ID: 7263272

Claim:
An apparatus for recording video and audio signals on a recording medium and for reproducing video and audio signals from the recording medium, the apparatus comprising: a first tuner which receives a video signal of a first format transmitted by broadcasting; a second tuner which receives a video signal of a second format transmitted by broadcasting; a recorder which records the video signal of the first format from the first tuner on the recording medium; a reproducer which reproduces the video signal of the first format from the recording medium; a decoder which decodes the video signal of the first format from the reproducer and converts the decoded signal to another video signal of the second format; a switching circuit which selects one of the another video signal of the second format from the decoder and the video signal of the second format from the second tuner as a selected video signal; an on-screen display circuit; and a video output terminal which outputs the selected video signal from the switching circuit through the on-screen display unit.