Patent ID: 8218407

Claim:
A DVD replay device with incorporated hard disk, comprising: a DVD drive which reads data from a DVD loaded thereinto; a hard disk drive which performs recording of data upon, and reading of data from, a hard disk which has a first storage region for storing data of a first data structure, and a second storage region for storing data of a second data structure that differs from the first data structure; control means which, when dubbing of data from the DVD to the hard disk is commanded, decides whether or not the data upon the DVD loaded into the DVD drive is recorded in the first data structure; and selection means which receives a selection as to whether the speed of the dubbing should be a first speed or a second speed which is higher than the first speed, and wherein, if the data upon the DVD is recorded in the first data structure, (A) upon the second speed being selected by the selection means, the control means: (i) supplies the data recorded upon the DVD to the hard disk drive; (ii) commands the hard disk drive to record the data, in the first storage region of the hard disk just as it is in the first data structure; and (iii) causes the DVD replay device with incorporated hard disk to wait in a standby state, in which it waits for its power supply to be turned ON, from completing the command of (ii) until the predetermined time instant; (iv) turns on the DVD reply device with incorporated hard disk when the predetermined time instand after the command of (ii) arrives; and (v) commands the hard disk drive to record the data recorded in the first storage region, in the second storage region while converting the data from the first data structure to the second data structure, and (B) upon the first speed being selected by the selection means, the control means: (i) supplies the data recorded upon the DVD to the hard disk drive; and (ii) commands the hard disk drive to record the data, in the second storage region of the hard disk while converting the data from the first data structure to the second data structure.