Patent ID: 8000196

Claim:
A composite reproducing apparatus comprising: a display device which comprises a memory portion, a display portion, and a video signal superposing portion that performs superposition of video signals; and an optical disc reproducing device which comprises an optical disc drive, the apparatus being able to control start and stop of the display device and the optical disc reproducing device respectively, wherein the optical disc reproducing device further comprises: an optical disc detecting portion which detects inserting and ejecting of the optical disc on/from the optical disc drive; and an identification information obtaining portion which obtains identification information to identify the optical disc from a management information recorded area of the optical disc and outputs it to the display device when inserting of the optical disc is detected by the optical disc detecting portion, and the display device further comprises: an identification information recording portion which stores the identification information that is output from the identification information obtaining portion in the memory portion; and an identification information display portion which reads out the identification information from the memory portion when the identification information display portion receives a command to display the identification information, and sends a video signal including the identification information that is superposed by the video signal superposing portion to the display portion, identification information obtaining portion obtains an identification name, disc kind, recorded data size, or finalized date of the optical disc from the optical disc, and feeds it, in a form included in the identification information, to the display device, and on detecting a command to display the identification information, the identification information display portion, irrespective of whether or not the optical disc is in an accessible state, inhibits the identification information obtaining portion from obtaining the identification information, and reads out the identification information from the recording portion and displays it on the display portion.