Patent ID: 8081867

Claim:
A record/playback apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives a televised program; a recording unit that records the program being received by the receiving unit to a disk; a commercial message detecting unit that detects a switch from a main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to the main program when the recording unit is recording the program; and a playback unit that plays the program recorded on the disk, the playback unit configured to perform a playback method of continuously playing only the main program, a playback method of playing the main program with multiple commercial messages inserted in the main program, and a playback method of continuously playing only the multiple commercial message, wherein the recording unit records: the main program and the multiple commercial messages to the disk under separate title names; temporally consecutive commercial messages among the multiple commercial messages to the disk under the same title name; and the main program and the multiple commercial messages to the disk under related title names, based on a result of the detection by the commercial message detecting unit, and wherein the record/playback apparatus further comprises: a selection unit that selects, in response to an input, whether the playback unit performs the playback method of continuously playing only the main program, the playback method of playing the main program with the multiple commercial messages inserted therein, or the playback method of continuously playing only the multiple commercial messages; and an output unit connected to a display apparatus which displays the main program and the multiple commercial messages played by the playback unit, the output unit outputting to the display apparatus on screen display graphics requesting an input that indicates the selection of the playback method by the selection unit.