Video recording/reproducing apparatus and method of displaying a menu guide

摘要

A video recording/reproducing apparatus and a method for displaying a menu guide. The video recording/reproducing apparatus (100) has a main control unit (160) which, upon receiving via the interface unit a request signal for a lock menu, through which access to certain programs can be limited, is adapted to control the apparatus (100) to display a window (720) on the display (300) asking a user to input a password; and when the input password matches a predetermined password, the main control unit (160) is adapted to display a sub-menu on the display (300) having a lock-setting (701) menu item and a change password (702) menu item.