Video recording and reproducing apparatus and video recording and reproducing method

摘要

A video recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by a hard disk device and a DVD-RAM drive which records a video signal and management information for the video signal in a recording medium and an MPU which senses that a vertical blanking interval of an inputted video signal contains a WSS signal that may be outputted to an effective video area and in that if the MPU detects the containment of the WSS signal, the MPU records intrinsic information indicative of the containment of the WSS signal in a management information recording area of the recording medium.