Patent ID: 7814563

Claim:
A recording/playback scheme for a contents distribution medium corresponding to a new copy control system, at least copy control information, which prescribes a condition concerning copying recorded video information, and compressed video information being recorded on the contents distribution medium, and being played back, wherein: the video information is provided with first copy control information and second copy control information, the first copy control information for a video signal to be output without reducing a resolution is set to a copy-never (copy prohibition) state, and the second copy control information for a video signal to be output with reducing a resolution dropped to half or less is set to a copy-free or copy-one-generation state, and wherein: the compressed video information recorded on the contents distribution medium is expanded, a number of all pixels including horizontal and vertical pixels in expanded video information is reduced to half or less, and resultant video information is output together with the second copy control information.