Patent ID: 7187840

Claim:
A reproducing arrangement for reproducing scenes of a stored film in an overview reproducing mode of the reproducing arrangement, the arrangement comprising: random access memory means for the storage of audio/video data of a film which is reproducible at a normal reproducing speed during a film reproduction time; mode means which enable the overview reproducing mode of the reproducing arrangement to be activated, at least two scenes of the stored film being reproduced in succession at the normal or an increased reproducing speed by the reproducing arrangement in the overview reproducing mode, and a skip scene recorded between two scenes and reproducible at the normal reproducing speed during a skip reproduction time interval not being reproduced in the overview reproducing mode; reproducing means which, in the overview reproducing mode of the reproducing arrangement, are adapted to reproduce the stored audio/video data of the film at the normal reproducing speed from scene start positions to scene end positions during scene reproduction times; scene defining means for autonomously defining the scenes of a stored film which are to be reproduced by the reproducing means in the overview reproducing mode, the sum of the scene reproduction times defined for a stored film by the scene defining means essentially corresponding to always the same film overview reproduction time interval regardless of potentially different film reproduction times the stored films.