Recording/playback apparatus using recording reservation information written onto recording medium

摘要

A recording medium has a management area and a data area. Information pertaining to recording reservation is recorded in the management area so as to be displayable in the form of an image. A recording/playback apparatus for recording and reproducing information with respect to the recording medium reads out information pertaining to recording reservation from the recording medium and executes reservation recording on the basis of the read out information.