Recording and reproducing apparatus

摘要

Automatic-signal-selecting is provided for controlling which output is supplied from a switch, i.e., a digital signal or an analog signal. The control is carried out based on information selected by manual-signal-selecting and information judged by copyright-information-judging. This structure allows a recording and reproducing apparatus to record the content-prohibited from being recorded in a digital form according to copyright information-in an analog form.