Patent ID: 7164843

Claim:
A data recording system, comprising: a plurality of recording devices for recording data containing images and/or voice in a prescribed recording medium ,each of the recording devices directly recording data from outside the data recording system and playing back data to outside the data recording system; and a recording objective determination device comprising at least a recording objective determination means for determining by a predetermined method, a specific one of said recording devices for recording the data among said plurality of recording devices, wherein said recording objective determination means automatically decides which recording device should record among said plurality of recording devices by said predetermined method: at least one of said plurality of recording devices is a recording device recording the data on a removable recording medium mounted on the device, and at least another recording device of said plurality of recording devices is a recording device using a fixed type recording medium; and when said recording device for recording data, determined by said recording objective determination means is said recording device using a removable recording medium, and said recording objective determination device further comprises control means for causing data to be recorded on the fixed type recording medium of said recording device using the fixed type recording medium in the predetermined case.