Patent ID: 7894710

Claim:
A recording and reproduction apparatus which receives and records a content included in a broadcast wave, and executes an application program included in a predetermined service in parallel with reproduction of the recorded content, said recording and reproduction apparatus comprising: a storage in which the received content and the application program are stored; an executor operable to execute the application program; a reproducer operable to reproduce the content stored in said storage; and a reproduction speed controller operable to receive a reproduction speed of the content requested by the application program, and to control a reproduction speed of the content to be reproduced by said reproducer so as to be in the received reproduction speed, wherein in the case where a first application program which has requested the reproduction speed of the content already accepted as a normal reproduction and a second application program which requests a new reproduction speed are different, when receiving the new reproduction speed request, said reproduction speed controller is operable to compare a priority level of the first application program with a priority level of the second application program, and to control the reproduction speed of the content so as to be in a reproduction speed requested by the application with a higher priority level.