Patent ID: 8270816

Claim:
An information recording and/or playback apparatus for dubbing all or some video image scenes onto a second recording medium from a first recording medium in which a plurality of programs each including a plurality of video image scenes and a plurality of play lists each including an arbitrary combination of a plurality of video image scenes contained in all the programs are recorded, the apparatus comprising: a display module which displays a first display screen that displays video image scenes contained in the all the programs, a second display screen that displays video image scenes contained in one program, and a third display screen that displays video image scenes contained in one play list; a dubbing instruction module which issues an instruction for entrance into a dubbing mode; and a control module which provides control so that, upon entrance into the dubbing mode, identifiers for selection of one of a plurality of dubbing functions respectively having different dubbing video image scene selection methods and a dubbing guide screen for displaying an explanation regarding the respective dubbing function are displayed and so that, when the dubbing instruction module is operated during display of any one of the first to third display screens, the explanation regarding the respective dubbing function is changed depending upon which one of the first to third display screens was displayed before operation of the dubbing instruction, the video image scenes recorded in the first recording medium each include dubbed/un-dubbed state information, the un-dubbed state corresponding to a state in which data has not yet been dubbed onto a second medium; and one of the plurality of dubbing functions is a function that executes dubbing of only an un-dubbed video image scene(s) in accordance with the dubbed/un-dubbed state information, and that executes dubbing of an un-dubbed video image scene(s) from the all programs when the first display screen was displayed before operation of the dubbing instruction module, that executes dubbing of an un-dubbed video image scene(s) from a program being displayed when the second display screen was displayed before operation of the dubbing instruction module, and that executes dubbing of an un-dubbed video image scene(s) from a play list being displayed when the third display screen was displayed before operation of the dubbing instruction module.