DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT AND DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to search a desired image scene of a user in a short time. SOLUTION: In a digital broadcast receiving recorder 1, a bandwidth dividing process part 31 divides a recording stream D1 based on high quality image data into a low resolution recording stream D6 and a high resolution recording stream D9 of SDTV format, which are recorded in an HDD 11. When a special reproduction command C3 is given, only the low resolution recording stream D6 is read from the HDD 11, and the data amount necessary for special reproduction is read within a range of reading speed in the case that image data are read at the time of ordinary reproduction via the HDD 11, a recording and reproducing controller interface 37 and a low resolution MPEG image decoder 43. A special reproduction image can be outputted in real time to a monitor 3, within the range of reading speed from when the command C3 is received, so that it is possible to search the desired image scene of a user in a short time.