Patent ID: 7450816

Claim:
A digital signal reproduction apparatus for reproducing a recorded digital signal from a recording medium, the recorded digital signal being recorded on the recording medium in blocks and containing a plurality of recorded packets, each of the recorded packets having a predetermined number of bytes, a time stamp having been added to each of the recorded packets in advance for indicating a time of transmission of the recorded packet, the digital signal reproduction apparatus comprising: a time stamp generator which generates a second time stamp which is independent of the first time stamp and which indicates the same packet transmission time interval as the first time stamp, and having a different format than the first time stamp; a time stamp adding circuit which removes the first time stamp added to each of the recorded packets in advance from each of reproduced packets of the recorded digital signal reproduced from the recording medium and adds the second time stamp to each of the reproduced packets; and an output circuit which outputs the reproduced packets having the second time stamp added thereto by the time stamp adding circuit.