Patent ID: 7852725

Claim:
An information recording apparatus which is a video camera for recording information to a record medium, said information recording apparatus comprising: driver means for writing and reading a picture taken by the information recording apparatus to and from the record medium; record medium determining means for determining a kind of the record medium; power supplying means for supplying power to the information recording apparatus; power supply determining means for determining a state of supplying of the power supplying means, wherein the power supply determining means determines whether the power is supplied by a battery or supplied by a commercial alternating current power supply; finishing processing means for executing a finishing processing of the record medium via the driver means to enable a recorded picture to be played back by a playback-only apparatus when the recording medium has been identified as a rewritable recording medium; a display section for displaying the picture taken by the information recording apparatus; and controlling means for controlling the information recording apparatus, wherein when the power is supplied by the battery, the finishing processing means does not execute the finishing processing.