Patent ID: 7224888

Claim:
A recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a first recording/reproducing medium; a first recording/reproducing processing section configured to record information on or reproduce information from said first recording/reproducing medium; a second recording/reproducing processing section configured to record information on or reproduce information from a second recording/reproducing medium; a display signal output section configured to supply an external device with a reproduction signal from at least one of said first and second recording/reproducing processing sections; a system control section configured to control an operation of the apparatus; and a section configured to compose input information, being subjected to recording processing of said first recording/reproducing processing section, with a reproduction signal, being reproduced by said first recording/reproducing processing section, to provide a result of composition, and configured to output the composition result to said display signal output section; wherein, if a time slip mode is activated in response to a given time slip instruction signal, said system control section enables a fast forward operation when a time difference between a recording time at which the input information is recorded and a reproducing time of recorded information corresponding to the input information is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and wherein the fast forward operation or a fast reverse operation is enabled when the time difference is larger than the predetermined value.