VIDEO/AUDIO RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH ITS CONTROL PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily cope with the change of a broadcasting system without complicating and enlarging the configuration of a video/audio recording and reproducing device, and to reduce the price of the device. SOLUTION: A disk recording and reproducing means records and reproduces video signal and audio signal, and an internal control means controls the disk recording and reproducing means. An input terminal for housing the disk recording and reproducing means and the internal control means inside of a device main body to input the video signal and the audio signal to the disk recording and reproducing means and an output terminal for outputting the video signal and the audio signal from the disk recording and reproducing means are provided at the device main body. In addition, an external control means for performing bi-directional data communication with the internal control means is provided separately from the device main body, and at least one of the external control means and the internal control means controls an external AV device connected to at least one of the input terminal and output terminal.