Patent ID: 7433579

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus, comprising: a first reception unit and a second reception unit operable to receive content signals; a recording and reproduction unit operable to simultaneously record onto a recording medium the respective content signals received by the first and second reception units and to reproduce the recorded content signals, the content signal received by the first reception unit being recorded on the recording medium as a first content file, and the content signal received by the second reception unit being recorded on the recording medium as a second content file; an output processing unit operable to output to an output unit the content signal received by the first reception unit and a content signal reproduced from the recording medium; an input unit operable to input a user request to perceive the content; and a control unit operable to control reproduction such that when (1) a user is perceiving content of the content signal being received by the first reception unit, (2) the content signal being received by the second reception unit is the same as the content signal being received by the first reception unit, and (3) the user submits a request to perceive a part of the content corresponding to a part of the content signal which has previously been received, the corresponding part of the content signal is reproduced from the second content file and the content associated with such reproduction is presented to the user.