Patent ID: 7551845

Claim:
A method for reproducing information from an optical disc having a plurality of titles that correspond to a respective number of video programs stored separately on said optical disc, said method comprising: a) detecting information indicative of respective playback times of the video programs corresponding to said titles stored on said optical disc, wherein the information indicative of the playback times for each of the video programs of said titles are included with or within management information stored in a predetermined area of the disc; and b) selecting and reproducing one of said titles of said optical disc with reference to the detected title playback times, wherein b) includes: determining a first title corresponding to a first video program having a first playback time; determining a second title corresponding to a second video program having a second playback time; comparing the first and second playback times; determining that the first title that corresponds to the first video program stored on said disc has a longest playback time based on the comparison, and selecting and forcibly reproducing the first video program corresponding to the first title with the longest playback time, said determining and selecting automatically performed in response to a user command to reproduce information from said optical disc.