Information recording and reproducing apparatus

摘要

An information recording and reproducing apparatus (S) is provided with: a reproducing device (8) for reproducing information, which is recorded on a record medium (9) in advance; a compressing device (5, 6) for compressing the reproduced information to reduce an information amount of the reproduced information and generating a compression information; and a recording device (8) for re-recording the generated compression information onto the record medium. <IMAGE>