Patent ID: 7362944

Claim:
A combination system in which a plurality of devices to perform independent operations are combined therein, comprising: an input unit to input a set-up value representing data about an operation mode of said plurality of devices; a plurality of set-up value storage units respectively disposed in each of said plurality of devices, said plurality of set-up value storage units used to store data about the set-up value; and a controller to control said set-up value storage units so that an existing set-up value stored in one of said set-up value storage units is stored in another of said set-up value storage units when data input to said another of said set-up value storage units through said input unit is a same type of data as the existing set-up value stored in said one of said set-up value storage units, wherein the one of said set-up value storage units is in a different one of said plurality of devices than the another of said set-up value storage units; wherein said controller controls said plurality of set-up value storage units so that the existing set-up value is stored in said another of the set-up value storage units when a command for common use of the set-up value is input through the input unit; and wherein one of said plurality of devices is a VCR unit and another of said plurality of devices is a DVDP unit.