Patent ID: 8472790

Claim:
A digital cinema management device comprising: a control unit that supplies data of contents stored in a storage device to a playback device, wherein: the control unit refers to the contents stored in the storage device, contents stored in a content storage unit of the playback device, and an exhibition schedule, selects contents which are scheduled to be exhibited by the playback device, and which are not stored in the content storage unit, from the storage device, and supplies data of the selected contents to the playback device, the control unit selects the contents in the order of the exhibition schedule so as not to exceed a rewritable data capacity of the content storage unit and deletes (i) data of contents that are not included in the selected contents from the content storage unit and (ii) data of contents included in the selected contents which are currently still selected and which have associated therewith an amount of time from a current time until a time for exhibition, which is obtained from the exhibition schedule, which exceeds a predetermined amount of time.